Friday blues

“Oh no!!! I just realized… its Friday!!! I cried out when I saw the time turning to 16.30 on my desktop. Knowing for a fact that we have the weekend off, the exclamation in my tone should have sounded strange; however I heard a sympathetic reply to that from BLN (I better not type in the never ending name) my colleague from our counter team. “I know!! I am yet to start for the week”.

Poo, who was listening to this conversation just smiled. Well, it shouldn’t matter much to her, after all that workaholic gal would be at work till 10 irrespective of whether it’s Friday!

“A-deity!! I didn’t start with my **&E!!! I hate Fridays!!!”. A-deity murmured something, which I couldn’t hear. However BLN replied to her with a usual ýa da!!’ Man!! Do these girls have some kind of code language or is it just my poor listening skills…. I said to myself.

Anyway, my dismay in the above context is because of a process that we “follow” at work. We are compliant to charge our work time to the clients that we work on. In other words, we need to give an account of every single minute that we spend at work. The process is supposedly helpful. And it would have been easy, if I would just do it on a regular basis. But as lazy as I have always been, I keep this pending till the last minute, which is by EOD Friday. So I end up spending more time accounting for my work than it takes.
As Fridays has always been the busiest day of the week, I seldom get time to do the **&E. There has been times when I hit the submit button at sharp 12A.M to avoid any non compliance, just to realize that I had 2 more hrs before the deadline.

Every time I hit the submit button, a rush of relief flushes through my body. After being in the firm for almost 2 years, I now realize that **&E contributes a lot to our stress rather than the work itself. Wish there was an alternative.

Note: the purpose of this blog is just to let my frustration out of **&E.