Friday, 18 March 2011

NextGen Leaders...

These days reaching office early in the morning has become a norm… Being an advertising firm, it’s completely vacant and you kinda feel like you are the king. By 10am, people start pooling in with their heavy heart of spending the whole day under pressure… Our lives are so monotonous be it the CEO or the executive, we have our routine schedules but we all have our different agendas and we all reach the top and that too pretty soon. Ever pondered on how these people reach and why… Presumption that most reach the top coz their dad’s are the owners or through reference is a myth! They are knowledgeable dude… seriously they capture each and every moment as learning and stick to it.


Today’s youth is dynamic and aspires to reach the top but most when you check on the IQ levels astound you as to how come they even reached here where they stand. Yes, I met one such person who made me question whether we were ever taught the basics of science or geography in our schools!


So this chick is 25 year old gujju lady hailing from my firm (advertising is supposed to be intellectual firm right!) who is mind you working for 5 years now, had reached a little early that day… and we happened to discuss Tsunami as it has questioned our future on earth… It was Wednesday morning and fresh tremors with 6.0 Richter scale had hit Tokyo at 7am IST so I informed flaunting my knowledge as an efficient PR person keeping a check on everything specially when half my friends call me the google girl! The other colleague inquisitively asked, “Tsunami toh nai aayega na?” I was like nai nai! So our lady says, “Arre earthquake aaya hai toh Tsunami thodi aata hai!” My eyeballs almost popped out but concealing the expression, I explained how earthquake in sea causes Tsunami. This was just the start!


“Pata nai yeh global warming ki wajah se aur kya kya hoga!”


Hearing the statement, I couldn’t relate whether she was taking the topic to some other level or she was continuing the same topic! Again but you know narcissists like me never give up, again I flaunted and informed about how Mayan calendar and civilization and the concept of even scientists predicting how Sun storm may lead to an end of earth! I refused to believe that she had never ever heard about either of the cases! I ignored still… discussion further moves to global warming…


“Lahore mein lava aaya tha voh global warming tha na! Kitna nuksaan hua tha!”


Now if even one person remembers of any sort of lava in lahore, I will give you a gold medal and a thousand bucks and if you can remotely connect to any other reality then you and I are exceptions! Yes! I did predict and checked, “Are you talking of Latur ka earthquake jiski vajah se Surat mein plague hua tha?”


“Ohhhh haannn right right latur tha sorry… (aur lava nai tha!) par uski vajah se surat mein kaise plague ho sakta hai! Kuch bhi pakati hai (laughing mockingly)!”


I had lost by this time and the other chick who was hearing the whole conversation fell short of shocked expressions! I didn’t bother to explain how the plague happened but clarified that it was not coz of global warming but before I could explain anything further, I didn’t know one more sixer was coming in!


“Arre but jo sukha pada hota hai, that is also earthquake na!”


Here, I really felt like a school teacher teaching a third standard student that a sukha might be on the surface of the earth with 2m cracks maximum and is caused coz of global warming and extreme heat! While earthquake is caused coz of tectonic plates of the earth. Infact I went ahead and explained that the depletion of ozone layer has caused many snow mountains at the north and the south poles to melt and is non-existent today increasing the level of water in the oceans. Obviously after the earlier encounters you can’t expect her to know this! That’s not it, Sachin most of the times never makes you loose your expectations and ek aur six toh maarta hi hai! Here you go, one more…


“Oh, that’s why Tsunami is coming!”


Had it been some student then I would have said refer chapter number one but bade bachchon ko kaun bole aur kaise! I ignored and went ahead talking about how moon is coming closer to earth this year and will cause a lot many changes in the sea… Mistake! Mummy ne kitni baar kaha hai ki zyada mat bolo, chup raho! Par nai tumhe toh bas apni hi jhaadni hai!


“Ohh, so it had come closer in 2005 also?”


Think, think fucking hard and if you can remember any damn thing that moon did to earth in 2005 was devastating enough? No, you just can’t coz moon ka basically koi fault hai hi nai! So I questioned so did the other chick , “2005 mein kya hua tha?”


“Arre Mumbai mein Tsunami aaya tha naaaa…!”


I fainted.


P.S. By this time, I had got brains and didn’t bother to explain what a cloud burst is and how Leh was affected by artificial cloudburst! I finally learnt from my earlier mistakes you see!


Learning: This female is earning higher than me and is at par with some knowledgable people. Are we expecting her to be the nextgen Leader? But she herself thinks so! Do you have such misconceptions in your mind or are you conceptually strong to justify yourself!



4 comments:

Swet's World said...

One of the best blog I have read recently. Ofcourse because of the content and also the way you have put it. Though the expression of each one present there, is somethigh i would have loved to be witness to.

Divine.. said...

ROFLMAO....can some really be so dumb.....u have written the blog really well liked it...

Anonymous said...

Its was the best humour I have ever read I really ned to see this person to believe that some one like this can really exists.put in with right attitude for sure

Galnextdoor said...

Thanks guys! You have to visit my office/ hell for that!