Men will be men!!
Sharing a roof with three others (my hub and two sons) has never made me realize this. Coz I have the sweetest of the lot.
However, coming out of my shelter and exploring the world through the corporate jungle has made me totally realize that men will be, after all, men.
Let me relate a totally hilarious incident which happened in my early days with my present company I work with.
Our company has a lot of competition within ourselves, atleast for the places !! People literally are asked to work from home for 3 days a week due to the constraint in space.
With our team being newly formed for an innovation hub built exclusively for Standard Chartered in the ground floor of our campus, it felt convenient for our team to sit in the huge work place right next to the hub, instead of crawling ourselves to those crammed upper floors.
All was well except for one thing that the place where we sat was named “Library”. Maybe there were plans of getting techie books and enlightening people or to set it up as an internet café, I really don’t know the actual reason for this space to be christened as “Library”.
Trouble started brewing when people would actually walk into my work place and ask me for books, assuming that I was the new librarian. I had to explain that it was not indeed a library, but was used as AWS ( Alternate work space, and not Awesomeness). This did not deter the men in my company. They would still come and ask if there were any books available. My explanations got dried up and I used to give them a blank, long stare. Such long was the stare that it had the Martians scurrying back to their places.
Enough is enough. I told my boss about this predicament and requested him to remove the sign “Library”, which was solely responsible for so many interruptions in my work.He grinned and promptly got it removed.
Did my troubles end there? They actually started !!
The very next day, one decidedly-smart fellow came into the non-existing library and asked me politely, “Excuse me, are there any books here?”
I was flabbergasted. I burst into peals of laughter. He must have thought that I was getting hysterical with sitting all alone in the library and he threw his hands in air with an end-note “What kind of a library without books??”
Men will be men?? Yes, forever !!
