It's your call

A boring Statistic class can make Sayesha's mind work in weird ways.

So I am in class and my bag starts making eerie sounds.

My neighbour was doing her presentation, and the prof had plonked himself on her seat, just beside mine.

Whirrrr.... whirrrrr... vibrated my phone inside my bag. I ignored it.

The prof was looking at my CPU in puzzlement. So I pretended to look at the CPU in puzzlement too.

Luckily, the whirring stopped soon.

As soon as the prof got up, I took the phone out to see which moronic friend had been calling me smack in the middle of my class.

Missed call from the HR department.

Oh okay.

WHAT???!!!! Wait a minute. Missed call from the HR department??? At 9 in the night???? Why why why????

Why on earth would they call me at 9 pm in the middle of my class?

There was a voice mail but obviously being in class, I could not check it immediately. I had to wait till the end of the class. So I started thinking of all kinds of possibilities (yes yes, it was a really really boring statistics class) that the missed call could have represented.

"Sayesha, we suddenly realised how hard you have been working, and we have decided to double your pay with immediate effect. And we could not sleep till we had told you."

Errr... maybe not.

or how about "Sayesha, we have decided to retract the promotion we gave you in October. We suddenly felt that you don't quite deserve it. And again, we could not sleep till we had told you."

What could it be?? Curiosity was killing me!

And my mind started churning out other possibilities. Suddenly I wondered - what if I'd just been fired? Over voicemail.

"Sayesha, you need not come to work tomorrow. Or anytime after that."

Whoa! :O

I know someone who was retrenched over email. In today's world of mergers and acquisitions, anything can happen. The best can be out of a job for no reason. So this was possible, even though I see no reason why they would wanna fire me.
But then you never know. Queer things happen in the workplace.

And I started thinking of what I would do if it was indeed a 'You're fired!' message.

First thought, "Darn! I just turned down white ship's offer!"

And the thought that immediately followed was "Maybe it's an elaborate ploy by HR. They wanna get rid of me so they can drink up all my Thums Up which is still at my desk!"

:O

[Added by popular demand - the 'not so happening' end to the story]

Basically, HR had scheduled me to interview some candidates for my team the next morning, but had forgotten to ask me if I was free in those slots.

Okay, I think someone needs to thwack me on the head with a rolled-up newspaper and drive the following into my head.

"Sayesha, everything in the world is not about your Thums Up!"