Office-time means quality time spent at the expense of the employer. I would simply like to tell how productive an employee in a software company can be. The software professional swipes in his card on time, sits in front of his desk all the time, goes to the cafeteria on time, and leaves to his home, well, on time.
Then there are these delightful little breaks when the server of the company is down. All work or all that seems like work comes to a royal halt, I said royal because even the boss knows that he himself cannot do much in times like this. There are some very sincere guys who put on a very sad face and report first to the boss that the server is down because he was the first to find out when he was surfing some job portal or better chatting with this girl from United States on orkut.
But one day when the work inevitably gets piled on, gathers some dust and multiplies like bacteria, when the deadline is just around 54hours around the corner, you actually see these guys working. Wow! You can see them up all night, drinking buckets of tea and working their fingers off. Suddenly their efficiency level hits an all time high and they are working against the tide of time like Sherpas climbing uphill the unforgiving cold Kanchenjunga!They come to office with tired, red eyes and unshaven beard and you hear that they were up all night ,till about half past 3 and were back to the office along with you. Makes you feel that you are actually an under worker! They have a launch 14 hours away and the entire office crew knows that they are working. Where as your toil of silent hours a 3 or 4 extra hours per day goes unnoticed.
I look at it as the rise of the Titanic Wave and its denouement. Add a few works here and there and it gets all the more dramatic. The launch is finally done, and its party time. And then starts the swipe in-swipe out and have quality office time all over again, bringing it to a full circle.
