Work hard, not hardly work

I seem to be the only person slogging away these hols. Please note - I'm not complaining. I just find it amusing and ironic that I seem to be doing nothing during my internships when others are sweating it out, and working my ass off when others are cooling their heels. Tanmay reports that not even the Amarchand people (who went to Mumbai, Delhi, etc with knees shaking at the prospect of 16-hour work days) are working at their internships. I came to Infosys hoping for a 9-to-5, Monday-to-Friday work period and a relatively chilled out atmosphere. Instead, I seem to be the one doing the 14-hours-a-day shift. Well, I do have the weekends off; so to that extent my pre-internship assessment was right. But, as I said earlier, I am not cribbing. I am welcoming the hard work. I have been resting on my butt for the best part of four years in law school, and it was high time I got serious about something. The work is not very intellectually demanding - just digging out loopholes in contracts, or bailing Infy out of a thorny litigation, or saving Infy a few bucks by drafting sue-proof policies, or anything to the effect of putting Infy on the right side of the Law. But it demands painstaking attention to detail. I guess that's what we lawyers are paid for - to cover our own tracks perfectly while sniffing out mistakes made by the 'other party'. If variety is the spice of life, then life at Infy legal is quite bland. Still, there's a new challenge every time I look at a new contract or code or policy.

An update (or correction) to my earlier post: I discovered over the past few days that zombies too have a life. Infoscions put in a lot of effort to convince me that they were zombies, but that effort seems to have waned now. The intra-company, inter-development centre cul-fest Dhun is round the corner, and I actually saw some hustle and bustle (away from the computer screens, that is), and surprise surprise - some active campaigning and slogan shouting by members of some DCs. "Expect the unexpected" said one banner. How apt!!! I honestly never expected the oft-caricatured nerdy techies to show so much energy away from their keyboards. Also a reply to "Someone" who posted a comment on my earlier post - techies are not slimy, cunning creatures because the only thing they interact with, namely a computer, is not worth the effort...