So yesterday during class we get this email from HR that is telling us that we do not work today and that we work on the coming up Saturday instead. Naturally we are all confused by this and we found out that the state that we live in here, Karnataka, is under a statewide strike for today only. I have no idea what the strike is even for, however, we have to not work today for our own safety. We were also advised not to go into the city for our own safety as well.
So you would think that since the whole state, which has millions of people not working, that they would just let it slide and we would not have to make up a day of work since it wasn’t our choice. That, however, is not the case. They decided that even though we had no problem with working during the strike that we are required to come in on Saturday to play catch-up on our missed work day.
I have no issues, I guess, with the idea of not missing a day of work, but this was a choice made by the Company and not by us and I see no reason why our weekend has to be cut short because of some strike. Oh well, it gives me one more day to procrastinate studying for my next exam coming up. It is over threading, RMI, and XML parsing in Java. Sounds like a real thriller of a time.