The Bench Press - pressing "on the bench" issues .. :P

well its just my third post and this account is almost and year and half old .. tat like 1/6th of dogs life man ...

the last time i wrote i was doin lukkagiri as a summer intern at Bombay... now as I write i am Full time employee- work as a Supply Chain and Logistics consultant wit a german firm, based out of blore (which i m slowly starting to believe is the best city in the universe), am one project old annnnnd most importantly am a Lukkha again - sitting on the bench waiting for my next project..

and u know wat.. wen i passed out of college in 2003 a lot of my friends from blore joined companies like infy and TCS etc ... and they wud frequently use this term "on the bench" .. and me being a poor guy from non-IT field working wit a more traditional production unit always imagined that there d be a bench on which these guys waiting for project had to go and sit on everyday - and some manager some day wud notice all these guys "on the bench" and wud give them some work and hence take them into the office ....

well after about 2.5 years of this thought stayin in my mind i went to IIMA where met a whole lot of ppl from infy. tcs etc - guys who had spent a lot of time "on the bench" and who never got to go into the office, hence took this road from "THE BENCH" to the IIMs ... :-)

and now I also know that "on the bench" doesnt necessarily mean u are not inside the office - u are like any other normal employee who is "off the bench" ... but u are a little better off than them ..:P

the "off-benchers" work hard every day for their bread and butter, the "on-benchers" write dumb-blogs, beat computers at scrabble, bug busy "off-benchers" and do random shit and still are fed wit the same bread and butter .no i am not complaining, just repenting the fact that soon, very soon i shall be "on a project" and hence an "off-bencher" ...