I was in a sutta break with a friend of mine in the office parking. You know...a sutta break is something which soothes you down when you are having a hard day. It's a break where you can bitch about your bosses with someone who empathises with your agony. So back to the point...we were at this parking enjoying our bitching session, firing our anger into ciggarette ashes and gulping our agony with the help of chai when all of a sudden we heard someone honking at us. I turn and see a well dressed guy in his Ertiga honking at us with so much rage as if he was my boss's son and had heard us bitching, besides the whole parking lot was almost empty and there was no discernible reason for his honking.
And all this while he kept blaring the horns so at last I gave up wondering and moved aside giving him a sly look but to my wonder he gave me an even harder look. He got out of his car, banged door and shouted, 'Behere ho kya aap? Horn sunai nahi diya? Unnecessary mujhe itna late karwa diya!'. (Are you deaf? Didn't you hear the horn? Made me run late, unnecessarily!) And before I could think of replying him he vanished.
Disappointed at my inability to retort, my ego was hurt. I came back to my desk and started working with a heavy heart. I was strategizing about how should I satisfy my hurt ego, many ideas came into my mind...I would go home and have a fight with my husband and blame him for everything, or I can vent my anger on my team mates, as it is I am already a horrible person/ boss to them, or...
Just then my phone rang, it was my HR reminding me about taking a scheduled interview. Gosh! this had almost skipped my mind. I rushed downstairs, met the HR when my boss called and informed me, 'Yours is the final say!' I nodded as if he could see me from his phone.
I enter the room where the candidate is waiting and...Can you beat the odds?
That honking Ertiga guy is sitting in front of me. God! I was straight faced but on the inside I was having a gala time laughing and shouting sweet revenge. For his part, the guy was astonished as well as embarrassed. We greeted each other and had a 45 minutes long intense technical discussion whereby I concluded saying, 'I am done now. My HR will get back to you with further instructions.'
I was about to leave when a question popped out, 'Excuse me....Is this the last round of interview?'
Me and my ego clinked a glass of champagne. I replied, 'Ah! For technical, yes...I have the final say!' With that I smiled my most cruel smile and left the room.
It was petty but I was so satisfied and happy as if I had won the war against white walkers.
PS: He wasn't selected.
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