One Night at the Call Center by Chetan Bhagat

Author:Chetan Bhagat [Bhagat, Chetan]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-307-48908-1
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2005-11-23T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

1:59 a.m.

MOCHA CAFE AND ITS COLORED ARABIAN LIGHTS faded away from my mind as I returned to WASG's tube-lit interiors. I checked the time: It was close to 2:00 a.m. I got up to take a short walk. I didn't know what was more disgusting: thinking about Priyanka's mother or hearing the girls obsess about Priyanka's marriage. I went to the corner of the room where Military Uncle sat and we nodded to each other. I looked at his screen and saw pictures of animals—chimps, rhinos, lions, and deer.

“Are those your customers?” I said and laughed at my own unfunny joke.

Military Uncle smiled back. He was in one of his rare good moods.

“These are pictures I took at the zoo. I scanned them to send to my grandson.”

“Cool. He likes animals?” I said and bent over to take a closer look at the chimp. It bore an uncanny resemblance to Bakshi.

“Yes, I'm sending it by e-mail to my son. But I'm having trouble as our e-mails don't allow more than four-megabyte attachments.”

I decided to help Uncle, if only to avoid going back to my seat until the systems guy had fixed the phones.

“Hmm, these are large files,” I said, as I took over his mouse. “I could try to zip them, though that won't compress images much. The other way is to make the pictures low resolution. Otherwise, you could leave a few animals out.”

Military Uncle wanted to keep them high resolution, so we agreed to leave out the deer and the hippos as those weren't his grandson's favorite animals.

“Thanks so much, Shyam,” Military Uncle said, as I successfully pressed “send” on his e-mail. I looked at his face and there was genuine gratitude. It was hard to believe he had been booted out because he was too bossy with his daughter-in-law—a piece of gossip Radhika had once passed on to me.

“You're welcome,” I said. I noticed Vroom signal to me to come back. Hoping that the topic of Priyanka's wedding was over, I returned to the desk.

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