Right now, I am sitting in an almost-empty computer cluster and getting paid for it. My job is to answer technical queries like "Why is the printer not printing?!", "Where's the bathroom?!" and, occasionally, "How do I stop the printer from printing?!" As you can see, they're all highly technical in nature and they all end in interrobangs. Of course, now that it's summer time, there are hardly any people left to ask such taxing questions of me, and the atmosphere is so relaxed that my boss forgot to make the schedule for this week. I noticed this yesterday night, and given my position in hierarchy of know-it-all geeks, I quickly made a schedule and emailed everyone about it. Now, obviously, when I make a schedule, I at least make sure that I myself am given a fair amount of the shifts because they're fun, not too much work and fairly good cash to boot.

This is the problem with a cushy job - people take it for granted and today it wasn't me who did so. Now, if another employee and I want to work the same hours and we're in the same hierarchical position of know-it-all geeks, then it's natural that we split the hours and be happy. Mais non! This fellow has the audacity to email me and tell me that he would "wish to work all seven hours". Trying to keep it light and humourous, I reply back saying that "haha, but then there wouldn't be any hours left for me." To top it off, I also add a smiley face at the end. The next morning (that being today) when this person clearly does not have a scheduled shift, he shows up for work (citing norm). Of course, this norm that he's citing is basically just all of last week, when, primarily because of this dude, I did not get any shifts in the morning. The annoying thing is that this guy is a good friend of this female who also works the morning hours and the dude, being off-duty and all, just stays there. In fact, he goes and gets a bean bag chair, just sits there and reads comics! Guess the library's the new best place to hang out. All in all, it was a mildly frustrating morning because of all this unnecesary hassle, but I didn't worry much about it because there was always something engaging to do on the computer, which included chatting with at least ten people about the blocking of blogspot.com. Anyway, since these two irritating fellows were graduating seniors anyway, मैंने अपनी shifts इन्हें दान देदीं क्योंकि मुझे इनसे और मुंह लगाने की इच्छा तो थी नहीं। My policy on such trivial matters is one of «be iest lîn».

Also, how irritating is it that Firefox doesn't have any kind of decent Devanagri support either on Mac or on Windows?

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