When the Lights are out, Get Your Butt off the Computer

Count The Number of Men Working in this Picture

Can you count the number of men in this picture. Well if you can then write to us. That number will be directly proportional to the number of t-shirts forwarded to you by CodeWeek. All you have to do is keep counting. The answer will come to you soon.

On a serious note what we actually are referring to is different from what we quoted above and we are referring to load shedding. Do you actually know the people who are greatly affected by this LOAD which the government has been shedding on the country and the people? Well it’s YOU we are talking about, the Software Professionals.

The People Who spent their whole life in front of computer screens, and completely forgot that there exists a world outside as well. A short incident I am going to tell you. These have become a norm in many software houses. Well there was one which I witnessed myself, and something like this happened,

My team was struggling very hard to bring the project at its final stages. We were short of time, and the client was all whining and crying on every call and in every email due to the delay in work. Infinite number of problems kept on erupting again and again. Above all my developer was absent, the phone was not working, and the Internet was creating infinite number of problems. Then the curse took a new turn and the lights went out…

This is the point where Software Engineers stop working and CodeWeek starts its weekly checkup. We saw the faces of all the members of that particular team and their lead. What we remember is that they seemed as if they were about to fall on the floor and start whining like a baby. That is when we were forced to interfere and send a message to all the engineers where we said,

Dear Software Engineers, when such a situation occurs it is a humble request from the CodeWeek Team, get your butts off the computer, go outside, take a quick look at the awe-inspiring world which has been created for you and is waiting for your admiration. Okay wait, full stop. Do not let your imagination go wild we are actually referring to NATURE ONLY, and then we will show and prove.

For God’s sake leave your desk and your office, don’t curse anyone it’s not your company’s fault. Electricity in our country is a relative term. You can curse your boss, you can curse your client, you even curse yourself but you cannot deny one thing, you definitely Need a Break. At least for a few hours which load shedding has blessed upon you.

Forget the tweets and the wall posts, this is a just a part of a social network but not the real world. If you think that load shedding  will disconnect you from rest of the world, then let us make this very clear to you that it is the digital world you are talking about, and there is a ‘Brave New World’ out there waiting for your participation.

Our advise USE PAPER AND PEN to write because this is the right time to test yourself and trust us you will end up discovering the fact that you can easily make a mess out of a neat clean paper. Practice, so that you can actually write again.  Well observe this group in the picture closely, look at their dedication which is reflected through their concentration. Yes, that is it, try using pen and paper  for coding, let’s see what happens.

It is God’s gift so have fun and enjoy it. Did you actually believe that load shedding spared CodeWeek from its curse? Well we believe what goes wrong has to go wrong. Do not worry about the project there must be something better in line for you.

Have hope, Just look at our IT Manager. Observe his confidence; just examine the shine in his eyes. Yes, you are right he is actually waiting for the computer to restart again. Is he sad, or is he angry, you cannot really tell,

But what do we see here, OH! Our marketing manager, meet him in this

dejected state. He is also waiting for the electricity so that he can start his phone calls. Dejection and depression is clearly visible from his posture. In case you missed something out we very cleverly took his picture from two entirely different angles.

Meet our light, Just look at him. Do you think we need any other form of light? Well as soon as our Creative Director enters the room brightens up, all the lights start working and what we are left with is our internet. As soon as these words leave our pen there enters someone who is considered as

Saviour, frog prince, Network Administrator, Abaid. With his appearance all the tangled cable wires vanish. He makes a solid attempt to arrange all the wires and suddenly the light at the top right corner of my monitor screen starts blinking, and there we are, all set with light, with internet, ready to start our work all over again.

So this was our story, for all the software engineers out there. The load shedding is on hourly basis, you can definitely find someone from you team who can complete and solve all the tasks. Dont tell me you are busy finding men in the picture above well if you are then I congratulate you at your every attempt. Comment and let us know how far have you succeeded, so that we can send you the prize.