Indian IT professionals and Zoo born monkey
Long back I read about real incident happened, A monkey was born in Zoo. It was kept in zoo for almost six years. That cage in the zoo become world of that monkey. One fine day, zoologists taken the monkey to a forest and opened the cage and left it for free. But the monkey did not leave the cage. It was happily roaming around the cage, since it became its world.
Similar incident happened yesterday (Friday) in my office. We got a mail that announced holiday for yesterday afternoon. After seeing the mail everybody was happy. But no body left the office. Most of the reasons would be... "If I go now ,it would disturb my wife's sleep" ... Some bachelors said... "In office we can just browse." For IT people , After spending more time in office. Office becomes the world of the people. They don't know other activities.
Similar incident happened yesterday (Friday) in my office. We got a mail that announced holiday for yesterday afternoon. After seeing the mail everybody was happy. But no body left the office. Most of the reasons would be... "If I go now ,it would disturb my wife's sleep" ... Some bachelors said... "In office we can just browse." For IT people , After spending more time in office. Office becomes the world of the people. They don't know other activities.
posted by Akilan | Saturday, October 21, 2006
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Darwinism, Revisited...!
A monkey was kept in a zoo, right from his birth, for almost a decade. He spent all his time in the little cage alloted to him. He has his own routines. Days with visitors and nights alone.
One day, the zoo authorities decided to free the monkey. They took him to the nearest forest and opened the gate of the cage. Much to their suprise the monkey did not go out. For him, the cage is the world, and knows nothing else. He lost his so called animal instincts.
Loosing their own instinct is not restriced to our ancesstors. It very much applies to IT people as well. We IT people complain for restless work and slogging in week-ends. But not really...!
For some religious festival our company declared half-day off from work. Quiet ueexpectedly, none of us utilise that. For us, the question of 'what to do' out side office was much more bigger than the list of what and all can be done. We spent the off in off itself. Significantly, an example for loosing own instincts.
Monkey to Man or Man to Monkey? May be Darwinism has to be revisited.
Cheers
Siv
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