Once upon a time, there was an office in Middle East and I was there, just on track of work by sipping a
black coffee.
My boss came and rushed to his cabin. On that short span of entry and
rush, he called me to his cabin and advised me to download an urgent PDF
file from his gmail (no wonder, still some bosses don’t know how to operate
email, download and upload the attachment!!).
I knocked and entered his cabin.
He typed ‘www.yahoo.com’. I got little bit confusion and asked him.
“Sir, your email id is in gmail or yahoo?”
“It is gmail only. Don’t ask me question OK.. listen what I say” he
murmured.
“But sir for gmail, you have to type www.gmail.com”
“ I know how to go to gmail… don’t try to teach me OK??”
“Yes sir”
My eyes enlarged because he is going to open his yahoo mail from gmail
! I got little bit confusion because what all I know is yahoo and gmail are
opponents and still a good percentage of their energy is burning in the arena of
IT tussle. There is any chance for merging these two global tycoons? Oh my
God! When it happened? I blamed myself for my poor IT update. OK, let us see
what is going on here. I sharpened my eyes to his laptop.
He typed yahoo.com, yahoo web site appeared and again typed ‘google’ in the search column and
clicked on ‘search’. I got interest due to the method he is using to reach gmail.
Yes ! The website with four colour google logo appeared in front of us. Then he had given a hard click on ‘Gmail’. No
wonder, Gmail page is appeared before us! And he stared me and produced a
mocking sound as well.
“See, how easily I reached Gmail.... You people don’t know anything and
company is simply paying”
I cannot say Yes or No because it will invite a devil and sea
situation. Sometime, silence is the better answer to soothe ourselves.
He instructed me to close my
eyes few minutes. I wonder what happened
to this gentleman. Nobody will pray or salute computer before open email. Then
from my half closed eye lid, I peeped to him with an utmost curiosity. That
moment, I thought an incident in the Genesis (Bible). God asked Adam do not eat
the forbidden fruit (Some cynics says it was our Apple, the same stuff which
had fall down to Sir Isaac Newton’s head and finally he got enlightenment like
Gautama Budha under papal tree and found the rule of gravity and we reiterated
the phrase ‘an apple a day will keep the Doctor saab away’ – what an
idea Sirji !!) Finally I got his intention. He is going to enter his gmail
password (as per his character and computer parameter, I can bet you that his
password shall be his name or his employee number!).
“Open your eyes” he ordered me and naturally and swiftly the other
pessimistic dialogue delivered from his mouth “why you are tightly closing your
eyes?”
“Ok Sir, next time I will not close my eyes tightly...”
“OK, now tell me how to download the PDF attachment”
I just clicked on the attachment and requested him to click on ‘download’. Within minutes, our download completed and the pop-up window
disappeared.
“Where is that document??” As he has to comply with his designation, he
starts shouting to me.
“Sir, it is there in your laptop”
“Where? I cannot see … its gone…
what you had done with that document?? You don’t know how to download a single
document?”
I was a big sinner few minutes. Then again politely I muttered
“Sir, it is there in your laptop”
“Where? I cannot see anything?”
I told him to go to ‘C’ drive and open ‘download’ folder and open the
last file downloaded. He opened that PDF file and given a print command (Yes,
God’s grace, he pressed CTRL+P and then OK).
Before I leave his cabin, once again my boss advised me.
“See you guys don’t know how to download a simple file from email. I
have to teach you this also, then how I can recommend you for any increment,
promotion and incentive?”
I left the cabin. Boss is right, always right and hundred and ten per cent
right. He discovered (better to tell invented something).
Openly says, at that juncture, an inevitable smile from air get in
touch with my cheeks and danced in my face.