  One of my recent mails to my friends working in IT companies in Pune: are you guys allright ? shan replied yesterday ... ani and sau ....r u guys still online ? just reply with a blank email so tht i know u r still alive Ganesh One of the guys replied: --- Ganesh Iyer wrote: > are you guys working allright ? > shan replied yesterday ... > ani and sau ....r u guys still online ? > just reply with a blank email so tht i know u r still alive Yeah, He actually sent me a blank mail.
I had no option but to reply in an equally fitting manner. I promptly sent him a mail which contained a single word. Mazurdya There were days when I used to meet one of my "IT" friends online and then he/she would chat like there was no tomorrow. They would ask me how I was, they would ask me how my parents were, they would ask me how our mutual friends were, they would ask me whether I thought the Sensex was going up .Heck ! They would even ask me how Tiger was. (The funny thing is I don't even have a dog called Tiger) Now, what i get when I meet someone online is: Me: u there? Him : yes Me: What are you doing? Him: Duhh...like work dude... (I actually used to get answers that were different from this and ranged from playing minesweeper to playing NFS 2 on the network) Me: So u r busy ?
Him: (no reply) Me: well, Cya later Him: (no reply) The message from the other side of the line is pretty clear. "I don't have no time for jobless people like you. I actually work. " I used to think I could get into one of those companies where I can live the good life. But , it now appears that I would actually have to *work* for a living too. Gosh ! how much would that suck after being a student all my life ! 
