Bombay Bummer, Not So Much For Me Though...

As the heat starts creeping back in to Delhi, my office is planning to shift to Bombay. No, it's not like they move base in the summer to avoid the heat or any such. They are simply planning to move, is all. Makes sense from their point of view, if you ask me. They will become a more efficient organisation both operationally and financially, both of which they really need. Not that I think it will do anything much for their viewership numbers, but still.

The planned move is causing much heart-ache however, among those in Delhi who are not very eager to move, for whatever reasons they may have. Some have mothers who need medical assistance, others have new born children, some others just generally dislike Bombay without actually ever having lived there while others still are simply used to their current comfort zone and are too lazy or stupid to accept change. Of course, the fact that the company is not very willing to provide the cost of relocation etc is not exactly calming anyone's nerves. All of this is making for very entertaining atmosphere at work for me, where I am making public declarations now of feasting on others' misery for my amusement.

The only thing that is bothering me in all of this is that the company is not providing any details as to when exactly they plan to move. Once I know that date, I can accordingly fire off my resignation. There is no fucking way these morons are dragging me back to Bombay for a second time in less than two years. Especially since it has only been less than five months that I left that over-sized dump. No way am I putting myself through yet another summer of sweaty over-flowing trains and a deluge of garbage that passes off for monsoon for the sake of this job that I don't even want. I trust these cheeky bastards to hold off announcing that final date till the last possible moment, so that they can then cut some money from my final salary on account of me not having given them the requisite one-month notice. There is no low they will not fall to, in my opinion, to save even small change from the lowly-paid hard working few to foot the bills of the highly-paid hardly working many.

I mean, for fuck's sake, on the one hand, they are going around telling everyone how there will probably be no pay hikes this year because of general lack of money. On the other, they seem to have suddenly coughed up the money for this move. And on yet another, they do something stupid like introduce valet parking for the remaining Delhi office from next month! Go figure.