All About a Cubie

If you’ve worked for a while where I do, you’d be used to desk moves. You move within the team, you move to another team-same product, you can even move to a new team-new product. And when you move, your desk moves with you – computer, telephone, all your stuff ranging from teddies to post-its.
I had moved within the team a couple of times - and, of course, one of the first things you do is to look up your neighbours. In one such move, my desk was right in front of my manager. I moved wondering why. Before I could find the answer, I had to move again. This time, it was next to this bubbly, chirpy character in our team -- in short, kinda my opposite. You can hear her in office - you just can't hear me when am working! Add to this, I put on my headset without fail - so, even if I am not listening to anything, people around assume I am listening to something, and don't disturb. And ya, I really needed a quiet environ to work.
And then, I moved! I was hoping I'd be able to work without complaining - and guess what? I was totally wrong about a few things. Yes, she remained loud and I remain quiet. But then, there are times when you bond with someone and you just can't figure out why or how it happened... this was something like that. Soon, we were ganging up together - our fave pastime was Abhijeet Bashing... If you aren't in Rock, you just don't know what this means :D
We'd discuss about every little thing we could think of - and, I realized that I could work even with a boisterous cubie.
Soon, it was time to move again - this time, I moved out of the team. And before that, we enjoyed a great offsite - my last Rock offsite, a very memorable one.
And now, she's moved too - a different workplace. I can't walk by and leave notes anymore - well, now I do in Facebook, but then, I guess, my space has become a lot quieter...
That's for you Indirap!