Dr Jog !!! My favourite doctor :)

When my friend Rushit asked me to start a blog, I started thinking what will I write !! Then after some thinking ... I realised yep .. I have so many things in my life .. that would bring a smile on other people's face ... And Here I am now .. with the incident which I consider unforgettable, funniest in my life!

This happened when I was into my first year of my first job at Patni Computer Systems in Navi Mumbai. I don't remember well but it was in Dec '02 or Jan '03, as I was allotted to a new project and was learning about my role from a senior team member. One day in the morning as I was getting ready for office, I had a severe headache and I told this to one of my 7 room-mates!! Yes, 7 room-mates :) My friend Rohit who used to work in the same project told me that we have a doctor in our office whom I can visit in the office hours and ask about some medicines for headache ... So I said ok, that would be a great idea.

So now I reach office and start working. After an hour or so, when I felt that the headache was coming back, I decided to visit the doctor. So I told my team-member that I will be coming back in few minutes. So I go down and ask the security person for the Dr Jog's cabin. He pointed me towards the Dr's cabin and I was on my way to a great adventure. :) I knocked and Dr Jog asked me to enter the cabin.

Here is the dialog that took place between me and Dr. Jog as far my memory goes -

Dr Jog : Yes ??

Me : Sir, I am having a severe headache since last few days and I am not able to concentrate much into my work

Dr Jog : Are you made to stay late at work ?

Me : No sir ! but it is really a pain .. and I find it difficult to concentrate ..

Dr Jog : Have you been coming in night shifts ? Who is your Project Leader ?

Me : Nothing like that sir .. But it could because I wash my hair daily .. but if you can give me some medicines or take a look ...

Dr Jog : Okie .. you can take some normal medicines like ...

Me : Aspirin ..??

Dr Jog : Yes

Me : Okie, thank you Sir !!

So I come out disappointed from Dr Jog's cabin thinking that why did this doctor not check me or gave me any medicines? May be he is a jerk and does not know anything. I come back to my desk, went to my friend Rohit who had told me about this doctor and told him that the doctor does not know anything .. !!

Then I got back to my usual work ... took some medicines .. and was okay ... but every now and then I used to hear the page for Dr Jog like 'Dr Jog please contact so and so'. This used to make me think - why does this Dr. never sits at his place .. He is just taking money and not doing any work !!!

So time passes and I get released from my previous project and am allotted to another project. I had forgotten the above incident with the dialog .. I start working in my new project with new team members and am on the same floor and same wing, where Dr Jog's cabin is. So one friday evening, when few minutes before leaving for the day, I was talking with a senior team member of mine and were discussing about our Project Leader who had spent about 5 years in the company. I popped a question, why is our Project Lead not leaving this company and joining some other company, since he has got so much experience. And my team member replies, he(PL) is not going to leave the company until he sits on Dr Jog's seat. To which I replied, this is not going to be possible. Our PL is in a technical field, while Dr Jog is a physician. Then my team member laughed on me and said nope, he is a doctorate in technical field (Comp. Science) I suppose. And Dr Jog is the location head of our office. Oops .. a big blunder ... I realise ... :) So that day while returning in the bus, I was alone on the first seat and kept visualising my incident with Dr Jog again and again and laughed so much on myself. Now for the first time I was wondering, what Dr Jog would have thought about me. :)

But more fun begun when I told about this incident to two friends Sujay and Amit of my previous project. They also had a good laugh. But they narrated this incident to other team-members and soon this news was talk of the town amongst most of the people in my account. My then Project Manager took me to Dr Jog to ask for apologies. But Dr Jog was modest to say that he had realised about me mistaking him to be a physician that day itself. Looks like he too was having fun. :) This incident was even discussed in appraisal of senior managers.

Well .. this happened in very early stage of my work life. But I will cherish this incident all my life. Whenever I think of this incident, a smile comes to my face. But wait this is not the last such incident .. there are few more, which I will narrate as I get time. :)

Till then .. have a good laugh (especially my friends of Patni Computers)