Feb 6, 2009
It was a new beginning. The beginning of my first night shift in amdocs. The time 11 pm to 8 am. I was excited about it. New project, new time everything seemed good. The first few days i kind of liked it. But as more days and nights passed by, my views had changed a little.
The night shift brought along with it many new experiences. There was no one around, only me and my colleague Pavan. No manager or any senior around. This in a way gave a completely new meaning to our freedom. We could listen to songs without the headphones, watch youtube, play online games and have a pretty good time. Of course along with we were continuing with our training as well. But then there was a flipside to this as well.
The office was very lonely in the night. No hustling bustling, no noise, no people hanging around each others desks. More than this, we also started to miss having lunch with friends, the gossips which followed after lunch, the mobile superiority complex between vinay and sarvo, sameer and his crushes, and of course guys how can i forget, your repeated and repeated advise of how to tie my shoe laces and the belt. I also started to miss the rumour mongering about the crisis and the constant discussion and debate about layoffs and things like that.
This night shift had its effects outside the office as well. I had to change my sleep patterns every alternate weekend while transiting from night to day shift and vice versa, which is definitly not something i enjoy doing.
Going home at 8 in the morning to find your friends getting ready to start their day while i was gettting ready to end mine and fall on the bed. Waking in the afternoon to find no one around in a big house, then worrying about what to eat, what to cook or get something from out. After somehow managing through lunch, then had to kill the rest of the day, which i would do by movies and games but somehow boredom and loneliness managed to creep in. As the night came by, then had to worry about dinner, whether to cook ( as it is my cooking skills and the list of dishes not something which i am proud of ). As 11 pm approached, my friends would come home after another day at the office while i would be going to start mine. How i wished my working hours would go back to daytime! But then, the times are not good and survival is necessary, for which compromises have to be made and that is exactly what i am doing.
Alone at day, alone at night.
It was a new beginning. The beginning of my first night shift in amdocs. The time 11 pm to 8 am. I was excited about it. New project, new time everything seemed good. The first few days i kind of liked it. But as more days and nights passed by, my views had changed a little.
The night shift brought along with it many new experiences. There was no one around, only me and my colleague Pavan. No manager or any senior around. This in a way gave a completely new meaning to our freedom. We could listen to songs without the headphones, watch youtube, play online games and have a pretty good time. Of course along with we were continuing with our training as well. But then there was a flipside to this as well.
The office was very lonely in the night. No hustling bustling, no noise, no people hanging around each others desks. More than this, we also started to miss having lunch with friends, the gossips which followed after lunch, the mobile superiority complex between vinay and sarvo, sameer and his crushes, and of course guys how can i forget, your repeated and repeated advise of how to tie my shoe laces and the belt. I also started to miss the rumour mongering about the crisis and the constant discussion and debate about layoffs and things like that.
This night shift had its effects outside the office as well. I had to change my sleep patterns every alternate weekend while transiting from night to day shift and vice versa, which is definitly not something i enjoy doing.
Going home at 8 in the morning to find your friends getting ready to start their day while i was gettting ready to end mine and fall on the bed. Waking in the afternoon to find no one around in a big house, then worrying about what to eat, what to cook or get something from out. After somehow managing through lunch, then had to kill the rest of the day, which i would do by movies and games but somehow boredom and loneliness managed to creep in. As the night came by, then had to worry about dinner, whether to cook ( as it is my cooking skills and the list of dishes not something which i am proud of ). As 11 pm approached, my friends would come home after another day at the office while i would be going to start mine. How i wished my working hours would go back to daytime! But then, the times are not good and survival is necessary, for which compromises have to be made and that is exactly what i am doing.
Alone at day, alone at night.
