The Lazy Workaholic

Hi everyone,

After a short break, here I go again. You have seen the 'hungry-ghost' face of me. Here comes another one...

Getting back to normal shift from the 4-day-week-day-shift was more difficult than I expected. It was because our team of 6 was short of a senior engineer as he was on vacation in China. So that made us 5. There was quite a bit of responsibility entrusted upon me. I felt important, but it was only a matter of time before the feeling gave way to the feeling of being over-worked.

I was working 8-7, 5 days a week. Things went on smoothly, until I started getting commitments outside work. I joined the local orchestra. This basically made sure my weekends were tight too. I ended up running around the city everyday, work, practice, weddings, swimming, etc, etc. I have always been this person who likes to be busy. My friends used to make fun of me that I have always wanted to handle more things than I can.

My daily fortune even once read - You have a great week ahead, but handle one thing at a time. Sometimes I wonder which guy who meets you daily is the one writing these daily fortunes, that they so vividly describe your current state of mind. Only when I read the fortunes for other zodiacs, I realized that these descriptions would fit any individual, because all of us often suffer from the same problems - stress, lack of motivation, handling too many issues, relationships, etc. So the work of a starscope writer is quite simple. All he has to do is choose 12 problems, and allot one to each zodiac!

A sudden weather change made sure I started bringing out my umbrella to work. But being the absent-minded-professor-aspirant, I left my umbrella at work one day. As fate would have it, it rained that very day and I got wet. That night, my throat started throwing tantrums. Luckily it was still weekend, and I thought I could recoup within a day and be ready for work the next day.

Soon my entire body was on strike. I could hear every organ - "down with all the running around" - "we refuse to budge". And being a nice boss, or rather having no other choice, I had to submit to the pleas of my employees.The last couple of days have been funny. I feel like a bird who's wings have been cut off. My doctor had specified... "No exercise, no running, no walking, no activities, no work..." I thought "well, that does not leave too many things that I can do!!"

Your body wants to rest when you want to run. But it wants to run when you want to rest. To explain that better, its as if your employees want to strike when they have to work. But they want to work when you've granted them their leave!! The world is full of such funny morons who always want to do things they are not doing. Err... why do I feel Iv just described myself!

Moral of the story: If a boss is too busy to notice his employees' problems, his employees have to go on strike, and so badly that the boss has no option but to submit.

The Lazy Workaholic