accidents at workplace

I happened to observe some real accidents which generated a lot of fun to the observers and
a lot of mess and embarrassment to the victims of the incidents.
I greatly sympathize with them but the devil in me also wants to have a wicked grin..as I recall these.

Coffee mug

Some days ago, my enthusiastic colleague from across the desk was standing at his desk and talking to me with a coffee mug in his hand. He was talking about how to really smartly select candidates in the interviews and judge them fairly. This coffee mug was a made of some material with a plastic handle. We came to know that the handle was actually just stuck into the mug body.
I could bear with his points but guess the coffee mug was not able to bear it.
And suddenly the mug body gave up and fell down and my colleague was left with a handle in his hand. He immediately stopped talking and started looking at his desk with much exasperation.
I did not know whether to laugh or console him with the havoc that the filled coffee mug had played on his keyboard and papers on his desk.
But I could not remain so sober and suddenly burst into laugh and he also started laughing. He had borrowed this coffee mug from other colleague and she also started laughing.
But I suddenly felt like a responsible coworker and I started helping him with getting the tissue papers to wife off the mess. He was drinking hot water from this mug, which God only knows why he was drinking..but imagine what if it would have been a hot coffee or tea.
The keyboard , mouse and the books and papers on the table must have cried aloud for their burnt body parts.

VNET Phone

Similar incident of spilling over the liquid content(coffee) happened with my other colleague. Although I did not witness the spilling incident but I saw the aftermath. The coffee actually went inside the small cavities behind the phone buttons. And the buttons are now experiencing a slow death. Many times my colleague has to press the buttons so hard to dial and with that frustration once, he pressed it so hard that the button remained pressed and did not come back to its normal position. He tried stunts on the button further and the button fell inside the phone device and all he could see was the square cavity without button. What will he press now?
He is become wiser now, and he never touches the VNET but uses VNETs from other desks.
His VNET has become a antique piece to watch.

Water Bottle

Once I was coming back from lunch and as I was moving towards my desk, I was crossing the other people desks on the ‘high-way’. We call it highway because that’s the middle portion connecting the front door of the floor and back door of the floor to the pantry.
So, on this highway, there are desks of some people and I can see their plight because they can never open and see any ‘special’ things on their screen because everyone crossing the highway can watch them.
People who go to fill water, go to washrooms, go to canteen , go to have coffee..or come in and out of floor …all cross them.
So while I was crossing one such desk, the guy sitting there suddenly did something , I don’t know whether he was sleeping or got some shock or something, he just smacked his hand and hit the filled water bottle which did not have the cap and as I saw it, I quickly turned the other way just to save myself from getting drenched. But still some water got spilled on me.
He said sorry with embarrassment.
Of course he was not from my project , so I rule out the possibility that he wanted to take some project specific ‘revenge’ on me.

Fire Extinguisher

Yesterday itself, there was much noise and crowd of people coming downstairs from second floor while we were going to lunch. So later came to know that one of the fire-extinguisher had busted out and caused the fumes and that floor’s fire sprinklers system got turned on .
People came off the floor it seems. We did not go and watch on this floor but it became kind of “happening” floor yesterday.

This is called some fun at office expense.!!

Bean Bag Trauma

This was a much unexpected event of the day. I remembered the day I selected an option as "Bean Bag" for the annual gift. Had I known what I have to face by selecting it, I would have never selected it in the first place.

The temptation of selecting a bean bag was mostly because it was a better option than all the other options available. Also, the thought of getting it delivered at the door steps was evident because it was the only sensible way the bean bags get delivered.
So happily selected "Bean Bag" as a option and waited for the day when the mail would come for the distribution of the coupons to the Bean bag's store.

But all these thoughts went into vain today morning when a mail suddenly popped up telling me to collect the bean bag from the basement next to the parking area of H2 building.
Many of my enthusiastic "Bean Bag" colleagues were also disappointed to get the similar mail.
"How insensible", "How illogical", " How am I going to take the bean bag home now?"
"Bus madhe mansa nahit tar aaj fakta Bean Bags ch astil"
"Basnaar kuthe bas madhe?" , "Bean Bag mavel tari ka bas chya seat war?"

Most of them had these common('sense') questions without answers.

The bag was distributed based on the employee ids grouped together and it felt awesome to
know that today happened to be in fact my D day to collect it. Considering it was huge in size I called my colleague who also happened to select "Bean Bag" and she was going to figure out how it "feels" dragging the Bean Bag, and how foolish will it look. She almost consoled me and said we both have same fate, you have it today and I have it on Wednesday. Lets be each other's consolers.
After lunch we went to collect the bean bag and saw all the common fated people like me dragging their bean bags and giving us "go , sign against your name , collect your bean bag and enjoy' kind of look.

Me and my colleague literally picked up and dragged the bean bag and then managed to somehow stuff it in the already overloaded car of other colleague. He already had a bean bag sitting in the dickey and other bean bag sitting on the front seat of the car.

Then I tried to find out whether anyone who stayed near the place I stay and also had a car. Unfortunately none of my colleagues or friends stay near my place and also have a car.
I was asking many people and trying to find out how can I take it home, finally my manager helped me out.
And I shifted the Bean bag from my colleague’s car to my manager's car.

I told my manager to drop me at a place where I can get an auto-rickshaw, so he did and I finally managed to somehow put this bulky bean bag in the auto.
The auto-rickshaw guy looked at me with much exasperation and almost said 'he kai aahe?'
Well..I did not know how to explain what it was.
I just said 'hee bag aahe'. I did not have enough time and patience to explain what it was.
He was a good person unlike most auto-rickshaw guys.

I got of the rickshaw at the gate and took the bean bag upstairs through lift. I stumbled at
the lift, my sandals got stuck in between at the lift door and I felt like I am Mr. Bean with a Bean bag.
I greatly remembered that Mr. Bean episode where he buys a couch and takes it home by sitting on it on the top of his car and drives the car too.
I landed home with the bean bag and to put myself at ease, I quietly sat on the Bean bag for sometime. :)