NO Limit to ANnoyingness

(NO LAN)

This is a story. A story of today, the day the LAN cable of my computer was flicked.

After one month of being an employee of CG-BoreEl I can proudly say that I am a survivor. You have already heard (rather read) stories of me having nothing to do here before. Well today I have another story to tell you.

After the weekend I arrive all fresh and rejuvenated. Ready to do some rain storming and finishing up the work that I had been assigned (Yes, Finally I have been given work. Most of it is reading though but lot fun).

I come to my office, start with my morning ritual (actually every software professional’s ritual as soon as he/she reaches office). I switch on my computer, wait for it to boot up, have a sip of water, key in my password and wait for the thing to start up. Suddenly I read a message on the bottom right corner of my screen that generally doesn’t show up during start up. It reads “LOCAL AREA CONNECTION: A NETWORK CABLE IS UNPLUGGED”. I think it’s just a loose connection and look under the table to set it right and surprise surprise – my computer has no network cable at all. Then I take myself back to last Friday. I remember that the thing was intact when I left last week. Where is it now? I look around. Everyone’s busy with their work. One of the guys looks relatively free so I ask him –“My LAN cable is missing. Do you know if someone was working here?” he simply shrugs his shoulders and gets back to his work. (Looks like he remembered an all important assignment all of a sudden).

I look around for help. No one’s even noticed me. So I continue looking around and see that they have setup a new PC in the office. So I walk up to it and see that it’s covered with post its saying –“Do not disturb this PC”, “Do not format this computer” etc. then I look below and find my LAN cable attached to it. (I know it’s mine because I was the only one having a blue LAN wire on the entire floor). I ask the others around if they know whose PC is that and no one has a clue. Being a fresher (1 month is not really an experience you see) I decide not to disturb the computer. I go up to a friend and ask him if I can use his computer to lodge a complaint. He obliges. I put up a request with the IT department for a new cable. And then I wait. It’s time for coffee. Still no one has showed up so I go to the IT team’s floor and lodge a complaint personally. I am assured that I will be fixed within no time. I come back and wait. It’s time for lunch. I finish up with lunch and lodge another complaint and wait some more. No response yet. It’s almost time to leave and guess what I am still waiting and writing this piece.

PS: I know lot of you must be wondering why I couldn’t work all this time. The reason is twofold. One all my study material is obtained through online tutorials and two the tool I work on has al it’s licenses loaded in the server which I can access only through the LAN.