The Silent Zone!

All I have spoken in my last blogs have been the importance of relationships and people in our life. However, what I really missed out was the importance of certain “places” in our lives as well. 

There have been quite a few structural renovations taking place at my work. Here the total employee strength would be nearly 5000 or so. A lot of construction workers are moving around about in the building either polishing up, painting or carpenters building or repairing some or the other corner in my workplace.

The floor plan of my workplace is completely on the ground floor and divided into two wings. One is the east wing – which has been the initial floor that they had converted from a mill to a corporate workspace and then bought the extending floor space in the next couple of months, which is now called the west wing. The west wing looks far more branded, furbished & spacious in comparison to the east wing considering that the management probably spent some good amount of time planning and doing a better job at constructing it in comparison to the east wing. 

The floor space of the entire office {East + West} is really huge and inter connected as well. The more interesting bit here is – that if you need to walk from the East wing to the West wing, it would be an easy 10 minutes walk to return back to your workspace. My entire department has been housed in the east wing. 

The essential need and greed for any employee working anywhere would be to have this really palatial, hygienic, clean, quiet & a peaceful restroom. We have one small restroom in the east wing {pretty decently spaced out, clean and hygienic} which is basically just off my workstation. Then another one in the transit area {the size of a donut, which cannot take more than four people} on your way towards the west wing and the last one which is like a palace in the west wing itself – which is right at the farthest and opposite corner to the east wing and empty, usually deserted & peaceful. 

This Monday, everyone’s week started off with a surprise when they entered office. We all saw this huge cardboard type structure made out of wood right outside our East Wing restroom and when we all opened our mail boxes, there was this nicely drafted apologetic mail expressing their deepest apology that the east wing restroom would be under renovation for another 3-4 weeks. 

The expressions and the “Oh my God” gasps could be heard from every nook and corner of the East wing. It was as if our most loved café had shut down. There were discussions about how much time it would take to go to either the Transit Area Restroom or to the West Wing. Everyone knows that the Transit Area Restroom cannot really hold more than 4 people at a time; so for a lot of people their expressions consisted of “that would mean – that many at times there would be a railway reservation counter queue” and for those impatient individuals who don’t like waiting in queues or are in dire emergencies would have to walk up all the way from the East to the last corner of the West wing {did I say “walk up” in dire emergencies? Let me rephrase and say “Making that DASH” to the West Wing} 

On Monday, I was sitting and painting pictures in my head how people would be holding on to their pants and getting up and making that dash across the hallway to the west wing. Wouldn’t that be a real sight? Everyone would know where he/she is headed. :P Nasty Me!

However, what I really didn’t think of was that how creative the girls would be in this and will make it a more fascinating journey every day for the next four weeks. The girls at workplace have come up with a most innovative solution for this. They now get up and ask around if anyone else wants to join them. Seems like a pack of leopards that publicly initiate the announcement of their need & then go for their kill with a task and a force. {It’s a relief to know that, they ask each other to join for the “journey” and not for the “activity” itself}

So these days it’s the usual norm, I would see a pack of bees in a bunch out together either on their way upwards or downwards. Some bunches have really buzzed by me like a wind at 100 kmph. {Ah! Well it’s their “forceful wind”}

Phew! So whenever you now visit your conveniently located peaceful zone; never forget to bow your head to them in a heartfelt gratitude for being just right there when you needed them.

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