SHIFTS….

Working in shifts has become the most onerous part of my life. It might really seem puerile to a many about me whimpering about working in the odd hours. In fact, for all those who have been working with the IT field for quite sometime, this has incontestably become a routine. I have always been with a perception that IT life is a cake walk. I have seen my friends going for work sometime in the noon or evening and coming back in the night. There are really only a few number of times when they told me that they had returned at or after the bewitching hour of the day. I never in my lifetime knew what 4o clock in the morning will be like until now, except during the semester exams(even then, I used to wake up only by 5.30).

Life has seen a drastic change. YES!! Am working in shifts. My day dawns at 4.00 in the morning. The suprabatham to my ears these days is the CAB driver’s dulcet voice. He persistently calls me once in every five minutes from 3.45 till 4.45 am. Yep, I get into the cab at 4.45 and my shift begins at 5.45. At first I doubted if it was the case with me alone. (:P) But sooner, I found this is the same with all my friends working in this shift. I loved the song ‘Unakena Naan’ and used it as ringtone. Now, hating that song . Every time I listen to that song, spasms of fear and tension passes through my mind.This might seem to be a bit exaggerated, but its true.

The cab driver continuously called me from 3.45 with an interval of 5 minutes yesterday. I asked him to come at 5.10 yesterday for which I had to listen to a long lecture from him (Poor me!!!that too at 4.00am) So somehow I made up my mind not to argue further and got into the cab at 5. The cab started…

Driver dint know which road to take….he asked me….

He: Akka, inda roada (Elder sister, Do I take this road??? (translation for u))
I: ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!! Akkava???????????!!!! (couldn’t do much about it anyways)

Early morning, after so many conflicts between my laziness and the love for my job(:P), I felt so sad to hear this.

Somehow today, I woke up even without an alarm. Just to avoid the lecture U c!! I pity myself and also you guys who work in these kinds of shifts!