time for a break?

Been working too hard for a long stretch and without a break proper. Am beginning to feel the fatigue. Started to put down these thoughts a few weeks back. this is not a part of any forward or any the such, just from my own experience. If you have any that you want added here, please feel free to leave them in the comments and I will put it up with due credits. the following is not in any particular order again.

So You know it’s time to take a break when

1) You are pushing a trolley down the aisle in the super market and you search for the horn and brake.
2) You look at the supermarket bill and it reminds of coding and you are not even a techie.
3) You are out walking in the evening by the park and you make a mental note that you need to switch on the headlights soon
4) You hear about the Gujarat Bomb blasts and your first concern is about the remote servers and its connectivity and not the site engineers manning those servers
5) You hear about the next set of blasts and you check if your news application is working fine.
6) You dream about excel sheets and numbers
7) You catch yourself trying to draw, by filling those little boxes in excel with colour.
8) When you hear that there’s a Jar of Cookies on the table, all you think is of who is going to download the jars and install them on the servers
(I first wrote that as cookie of Jars – that’s it! I Need a bucking freak!)
9) You hear that one of your engineers has fallen down and hurt himself, and your first reaction is who will take care of the work when he is gone.
10) Somebody in your team has announced she is pregnant and your first question is “when are you starting your maternity leave.
11) The Girls in the team call you out for a dinner and party, you’d rather be at home browsing the web for more info or vegetating on the couch with a drink in hand
12) You feel more at home on your office chair than your bed
13) You miss your multiple coffees on weekends – Caffeine Withdrawal
14) You miss the annoying buzz of the air conditioner during weekends
15) You keep checking your phone and Blackberry every few minutes for messages
16) You imagine you hear you phone ringing or your Blackberry buzzing. (The latter is one of the reasons why I am a Domesticated Bachelor only)
17) You wake up, and your first thought is you have to be in office before nine, even if you have a horrible hangover.
18) You are confused if a client has no complaints and compliments your team on the job well done and you wonder how it all went right.
19) Once a voracious reader, now you notice that your reading is all about Clients, Managers, Management etc.
20) You don’t get dumb Sardarji (no offence to the group) jokes or silly Knock Knock jokes but you catch onto the Dilbert strips fast enough.
21) You see a film and you think of how you can monetize its various content pieces.
22) Your have only office jokes to say when in another group. Refer point 20.
23) Half the boys and girls in your team are afraid of you and you don’t know it.
24) Your mom calls you to remind you that you have to pay for the books you ordered and you tell her to put up the request on the workflow management system.
25) You look at your tv and it resembles your laptop display.
26) Your laptop has 7 mail windows open, 11 Tabs open on Firefox (only two of those are personal and that’s GMAIL and the Blogspot) and the reminder list has 34 items and the oldest is 15 weeks over due. (I just counted & the oldest one is to buy the curtains Mom had asked for more than 3 months back)
27) You keep looking at your Outlook every 2 minutes to check for mails and you curse if you don’t see any mails.
28) You have more fun going through a Root Cause Analysis for a system crash than reading Playboy
29) You are at home, watching a reality show, and the host asks a question to the viewers and you drum the answer out on your dining table thinking it’s a keyboard.
30) Taking breaks is – either a coffee & Ciggie break or forwarding mails or walking to the floor above you and back.
31) You don’t go out for lunch or you actually forget to eat. I never dreamt that I would ever forget to eat – unbelievable to me. You will understand if you see me… I love to eat.
32) You depend on Microsoft outlook to remind you to pay your bills, Call Mom and Dad, write to your bro and best friend.
33) You spend more time on Linkedin rather than on Facebook or Orkut.
34) You are having a peaceful day at work and you are wondering why there are no issues coming in
35) You worry about leaving early, because you think some issue might crop up as soon as you leave
36) You are happiest when you are dealing with issues.
37) Someone compliments you on your work and you wonder, why they are complimenting you
38) You set your watch ahead by 15 minutes
39) You ensure your shoes shine better than anyone else’s in your team
40) You find punctuation marks a hindrance to communication
41) You find that you are more alert at night than in the morning.
42) You find that you have forgotten your way around in your hometown.
43) Your Tech head tells you – “oh yeah what you want is that the crap should be put there and the other shit should transfer it in time” and you actually understand what he said
44) You are more worried about your company Revenues, profits and costs and you forget your own tax returns
45) You want to put your wastepaper basket on your table and label it “IN”
46) Your colleague invites you for a party and you tell her that you are not in a mood for a party (She is inviting you five days in advance)
47) You eat your lunch at your desk .
48) Every second word you use is a swear word.
49) You are at office at 9.45 PM writing this tripe and pushing yourself to make it 50 reasons to know when it’s time to take a break! Go home already!

in need of a break
'Bye
Bachelor