The term Parama Vetti means a person who is extremely idle. Many think that the work of such an individual is very easy and relaxed, but let me tell you that each and every parama vetti person passes through hell each and every day!!!
Waking up every day morning, with the hope of being occupied in office for the entire day- only to find out that it is just another day of doing nothing
Enter office, switch the system on- Chek e-mails and your favorite web-sites, go through all the gossip columns and see which actor is being unfaithful, who broke-up, how many people died due to various accidents/rapes etc, who won which tournament, and of course all the celebrity related stuff.- One hour passes thus
Next milestone for the day- TEA TIME- spend quality time sipping the most horrible brown dyed water(which they call tea) that comes out of a vending machine which sounds more like a vaccum cleaner filled with dust- half an hour passes thus
The next target is to reach -LUNCH TIME- between tea and lunch time we have lots of domestic stuff to catchup with other Parama vetti Purush and Strees of the workplace. The conversation typically consists of few statements of obvious things, ranting, complaining how the org is under-utilizing resources and so on- One hour passes thus
The lunch time, each day, is the most enjoyable- Enter the food court filled with other Parama Vettis,(of course relatively lesser or more vettis too). At least you get to see lots of colors, guys get to see other gals(the regular ones you see) and gals get to see what other gals are wearing for the day. Discussion about who bought which dress/ornament/bangle from which place, the price, the occasion etc start and in between few spoons of food manages to reach the tummy.-One hour passes thus- have seen people eating food for close to an hour and a half( the food is so well chewed it is digested by the time they leave the food court)
Next target is, of course, evening tea again- Time is taken to prepare the brown water, have a seat and summarize all that we did during day(it is not easy to summarize them though) and sip the brown water, the conversation is actually to divert your mind away from feeling the taste(!!!!!) and seeing the brown water. Half hour passes thus.
Next(optional target) is to go and play Table tennis, carom, pool or whatever sport is available and pass quality one hour keeping yourself fit.
Next comes the time for browsing through all the official e-mails that have landed in the mail box. They range from an internal referral e-mail(give me work first), to blood requirement e-mail, to motivational mail from a top guy, to leave approval mail, to forwards from friends to all sorts of mails that help in spending an hour
Next is the time for browsing again- five and hour hours since we browsed the net, the world would have definitely tilted with so many more actors cheating, breaking up, many more deaths and mishaps happening, ministers abusing each other, market swinging up and down, and of course loads of personal e-mail( in the junk folder) that needs to be read- Funny- the mails that we normally delete in bulk- help us in biting quality time- One more hour gone
Next One hour is spent without knowing how it was spent- mostly staring at the monitor- opening some file or the other, opening an old e-mail forward and looking at it again-indescribable agony
It is time to leave and do the most productive work for the day- Have dinner and sleep
How can anyone say that people who dont have work are lucky, try going through the above routine for just a week and you will regret having been born in a country where everyone else seems to have work and you feely guilty for not working.
The parama vettis dont need your sympathy, they need your understanding :)
