My boss thinks I am Google

My boss aka Mogambo sauntered into my cabin around lunch time, holding an invitation card.  I look up from my sandwich and stop surfing the net

Mogambo : Do you know where MG Road is?

Me : No, I dont

Mogambo : Irritated shrug : Kuch pata bhi hota hai?

Walks off.  I mutter “Thank you for ruining my lunch break” and continue surfing the net

He walks in 15 mins later

Mogambo : Had lunch? (This niceness is suspect, I think it is because he wants to be nice about screwing up my lunch – not that he spoiled it any way Humph!)

Me : Polite smile : Yes, tell me?

Mogambo : When is the Obama thing being televised?

Me : I dont know

Mogambo : Office aate hi kyon ho?  Do you even know what is happening in the office?

Me : Excuse Me??????  Is Obama joining our company?

Mogambo hastily exits my room!

I start searching Google for MG Road and Obama

I am supposed to be the General Manager Costing for Exports

Go figure!!!!!!



Comments

26 Responses to “My boss thinks I am Google”

  1. Advitiya on January 20th, 2009 6:46 pm

    hehehehehehe! my boss stands behind me whenever I play freecell or blog and then he says i waste company time! :)

    I think boss-giri is painful. I blog and net-surf, so many blogs and so little time …. but still, what does Obama have to do with our company Sheesh!!!!

  2. dxtr on January 20th, 2009 7:03 pm

    Aah, multitasking. Isn’t that’s whats expected of every one who works in this day and age…

    Oh absolutely, I love the multitasking bit

  3. shwets on January 20th, 2009 7:15 pm

    At the rate at which we use Google search engines, google should just hire folks like us to work as User interface analysts!

    Brilliant, now let’s sell this idea to Google

  4. Clueless on January 20th, 2009 10:05 pm

    My Mugambo stands behind me quietly and then suddenly goes “uhhrrhhhh” to scare the crap out of me. Such sadists.

    LOL! I think sadism comes with the job profile

  5. mandira on January 21st, 2009 4:38 am

    lol. i dont think we are supposed to figure out jobs!! or bosses for that matter!! if we rally knew what are job profiles were and if we really got work that only pertained to our profile, how wud HR NOT give us increments?? lol

    all i have to say, its a crazzzzy world!!

    So true, so true

  6. shail on January 21st, 2009 5:11 am

    Hahaha!! That was funny. Your boss surely takes you for the resident google! :P

    Yeah, and it sure surprised me

  7. Dhiren Shah on January 21st, 2009 5:16 am

    Hee Hee, very funny !

  8. Ravin on January 21st, 2009 6:19 am

    For all you know your boss may have been planning to sell shoes to Obama :-D

    The Americans ain’t buying – recession and all that! But you never know, bossgiri gives a devious mental make up to bosses. Shit! How will I even make ‘em buy in this tangi ka zamaana and still make profits? Groan!

  9. moi on January 21st, 2009 6:51 am

    your boss seems to be quite irritating!! :)

    Yeah, but isn’t every one’s?

    I have gone through most of your post, i loved the “elder sons wedding series” ….and planning a career had me laughing all the time…and your blog design is damn good.

    Wow! Thanks a lot :D

  10. Pixie on January 21st, 2009 6:53 am

    LOL!! :D

    I survive on multitasking in office!! Just imagine the time when blogs were blocked!! *shudder*
    Those days were tough! :D

    Shudder! This never happened to me. Internet did get disconnected a few times due to ditches and road building. I was so productive those days :P

  11. Tazeen on January 21st, 2009 7:12 am

    There is a saying in Punjabi that goes like this

    “Jedon Naukri kee, tay nakhra kee?”

    it somewhat translates into “when you are on job, do whatever you are asked to do” even if it means keeping a track of Obama’s inauguration.

    Welcome to the world of corporate slavery.

    Yeah sigh!!!!

  12. Monika on January 21st, 2009 7:57 am

    bosses are such #$#%… i could just kill mine

    OMG Change your job Monika! A bad boss is a terrible thing

  13. sayani on January 21st, 2009 8:14 am

    I loved the term u coined “mogambo”

    My mogambo is a sweet person though …(it may seem strange)

    but the previous one was a name “horrible” with inadequate info she could give lecture basically on anything ….

    gr8 post here :)

    btw thanks for visiting :)

    You are welcome. Mine is nice but has mood swings. If he were female, I swear, I would have called him menopausal

  14. Afaque on January 21st, 2009 9:37 am

    hmmm…
    so now ur boss joined the club too….
    i am already hating all of those wooing about b-O

    It was big news yesterday – kal koyi aur hoga, why bother getting irritated

  15. Charmed One! on January 21st, 2009 4:36 pm

    Yup all the bosses are the re-incarnations of devils i guess :) !!!
    They expect us to be their beck n call employee :) !!
    Good you asked him if Obama is joining the company.. must have truly left the guy speechless :) !!

    He fled LOL! Bosses and their bossgiri Uff tauba!

  16. chandni on January 21st, 2009 5:33 pm

    LOL!!!!

    I love ur comeback line about obama joining office!!!

    Hehehehehe, he knows I am cheeky and can be nasty. He still does it. The guy doesnt learn

  17. Solilo.. on January 21st, 2009 5:39 pm

    I am shocked! Are people allowed to be that nasty to their colleagues?

    :D I like your reply about Obama. May be that will bring a [b]change[/b] in your boss’s attitude.

    He is the owner of the company – I am just an employee

  18. Indian Homemaker on January 21st, 2009 7:16 pm

    Hey come on the poor guy just wanted to know where MG Road is!
    But what does Obama have to shop for on MG Road? Mogambo is a creative name :)
    lol @ Obama joining your company !!!

    MG Road was venue to a function he had to attend. And he wanted to watch the Obama swearing in ceremony. LOL Yeah, I can be nasty

  19. unitechy on January 22nd, 2009 4:26 am

    Lol rituji you seem really nasty sometimes. obama joining your office rofl.

    Yeah, I am cheeky

  20. The Quirky Indian on January 22nd, 2009 4:55 am

    So your boss doesn’t know where MG Road is, or when the Obama inauguration was being televised. Which is OK…but he expected you to know them? Dumb bosses are actually a blessing in disguise.

    Quirky Indian

    LOL Quirky, nasty!!!!

  21. Rambunctious WhipperSnapper on January 22nd, 2009 9:34 am

    Oh, when I was working I had the George Bush of managers. I even had to tell him what keywords to use to search google. And what the url for google is.

    Sometimes, I used to explain things to him in diagrammatic form!!

    Must not be comp. friendly

  22. Manpreet on January 22nd, 2009 4:40 pm

    YOu are wicked, woh kya mukabla karega tumhara.

    That makes me sooooo happy

  23. mandira on January 23rd, 2009 6:02 am

    late,stupid reaction- i know where MG Rd is!! both is delhi AND in mumbai. How cool am i,eh?

    PS:not cool at all, just terribly bored on a friday.

    Hehehehehe, MG Road and Internet – they seem to be every where!

  24. Aathira on January 23rd, 2009 7:05 am

    My boss is nice, he knows I blog, surf the net.

    He does it too. :) Nice boss!

    Ahhh you must have had good karma in previous lives. Nazar na lag jaye

  25. Rohit Gore on January 25th, 2009 9:18 am

    My Boss is the super-hero called RouterMan. Anything that he has to do, gets routed to us. You see thats the greatest super power you can have. And like all superheroes, he has a favourite phrase. (Superman: Up up and away! Robin: Holy ‘whatever’, Batman! Spiderman: Your friendly neighbourhood….) For my boss, it is ‘FYA’
    Boss: Rohit this is FYA
    Rohit: Boss what’s FYA?
    Boss: You ask too many questions
    Rohit: Do I?
    Boss (clenching teeth): You just did
    Rohit: Will you accept my apologies?
    (Silence)
    Boss: FYA means…For…someting…wait…I know it.
    Rohit: Do you wnat me to find out?
    Boss: Yes. That’s FYA.

    Hahahaha, Rohit, too good. Your boss wins hands down against my Mogambo

  26. Sahaja on January 31st, 2009 6:59 am

    haha……google it up is the answer :P
    well, i iused 2 ask my collegues a lot of questions,where can i get this, how do i do this etc when i first came 2 UK! uff god knows what hey thought…but they were really nice in making me feel home!

    Googleji is truly the foundation on which we base everything now-a-days

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