Wednesday, September 22, 2004

Fast Forward !

Its one of those boring sessions of Economics class. Supply and demand was the topic of the day.

Anne, a successful career woman. She has been heading the Human Resources of the unit for the third year now. Yet another busy day. Started pretty late from her house and fighting her way through the morning traffic and she made it to the office… 5 minutes late. Picked up her daily newspapers from the outside office, with a cup of hot chocolate from the café in the basement, she enters her office, glancing sideways at the full length mirror in the corridor.
She was happy at what she was looking…. With no exercise, she has been able to maintain her vitals perfectly. With her black business suit and ivory color shirt and her hair tied in a French roll, she looked business like. She smiles and starts her computer.
While her system was booting, she glances through her notes through her glasses perched on her nose, for the morning meeting with the General Manager. Her day to submit the P&L of her department. As she is cross checking her figures with the previous years… she was startled with the ring of the phone…

Someone was banging the table…

Oopppss… back to earth.
She was sitting and staring at the board and someone was speaking in the background.
Look up to see, her Economics teacher was asking something and the question was directed to her!!!!
Anne finally wakes up from her endless dream of being a Human Resource Manager….
She fumbles and somehow answers a part of the question on supply, the part to which she listened in the first hour of the day…

Anne rubbed her eyes and started making notes and mental note to continue the session on morning meeting, tonight in her dreams.