Tales of budding managers

So I was thinking the other day its been long since I have given a status update of where I am, what am I doing. And yes I am a little narcissistic and want to talk about myself for a while. So BTech got over last year(sigh! Whether this sigh is of relief or of sadness is something of a mystery to me too, so we will just pretend to ignore this now).  Those of you who know me, know (a little too much for their comfort) that I love planning, when I say love, I mean I really really enjoy planning. So I had planned in class 11^th properly how I was going to become this really hardcore engineer, you know all geeky types. As the future became clearer, the plan finetuned to becoming a kickass computer engineer, hacking into systems, doing real spy stuff (partially because becoming a spy was part of an earlier plan). And then in the third year of college, I followed the crowd and joined CAT coaching. Somehow cleared it in final year (God! Smart people must have really stopped giving CAT or maybe I had actually become a real cool hacker, after all the exam in online now) and here I am now in a management college.  So the couple of months before joining, the planning commission headed by me (and having only me as a member) started making new plans. The new plans included making plans to appear very busy always (managers are supposed to be busy people, they have to do real important stuff like writing blogs on stupid topics). So now that I am here, I am always very busy. You ask why? Because as a management student, I have to be, it’s the only requirement to study management, you have to be always busy. We have just too many assignments and reports and sheets to submit. And stupid Mr Turnitin doesn’t let us management students use our holy mantra Ctrl C + Ctrl V (if I did a survey on the most hated software in my college, pretty sure, our dear Mr Turnitin would win hands down). So getting back to being busy. I know you must all be thinking, WoW, assignments on your own, that’s really some work. Well you are just a bit off mark. We are always busy doing assignments, just when we say doing, we mean paraphrasing wiki pages so that Turnitin uncle doesn’t catch us. On the rare occasions when we are not doing that, we are scheduling meetings. Oh yes, never mind that we are still students but what is management without meetings. So we are sending mails to our groups, a typical mail would go something like “Guys, Lets meet in CC at 10 pm to discuss the project”. Turn to 10pm, 2 people out of 7 reach CC, bitch about how the other 5 are freeriders and go back. Repeat the whole exercise every week for the entire semester and then do the actual work one night before submission.  What else keeps us busy, well what would all this hardwork be if not complemented with parties. So we have parties. Now its exactly like those glamorous parties you see in movies. Just instead of a cool location, we have booze, and instead of food, we have booze, and instead of games, we have booz and then ofcourse there is more booz. So now you get the idea, we are always busy. So whats the most important takeaway from this piece of article on which you just wasted the last 2 mins of your life. The takeaway is never ask a management student “Are you busy?” because you already know the answer. We are always busy.

I would have loved to write a little more but pardon me, I am busy.

Disclaimer: The above is just a piece of fiction and any resemblance to real life events is purely intentional.