A lot of romance can happen over coffee!
Call me old school, or just plain "old", but I often watch life, sitting in a Coffee Day, sipping my latte. The life I watch often involves young people getting to know each other, and sometimes it is their first date.
Two young things, the girl with an Andhra accent, the boy with a Malayali trademark stubble and accent, are getting to discover commonalities over coffee. They have both chosen to call this silicon garden garbage metro as home.
Boy: I work in a famous US brand offshore service center. It's surely exciting, answering to the name "Pete" and trying my call center accent!
Girl: I work for an Indian $1.5B telecom giant! It's not a direct Airtel job but our company has been running the subcontract for long now.
Boy: what's challenging in my role is to explain things to our customers who get pissed off easily. Other day, some guy was screaming that his toaster went kaput with the fifth slice of bread. How do I tell him we have no clue how long such a thing works? Not even our Chinese factory can figure it out. Just like a good old light bulb! As Edison has said, there is no science that can predict how long a filament bulb will burn.
Girl: Same here! Some nut was screaming the other day that we had billed him Rs 3748.84 excess for data usage. How can I explain to that moron that our billing algorithm came from IBM and runs a million factors to compute the bill, and no human can override it!? Only thing we know is it always bills more than what's fairly chargeable for the usage. That's how we became a $1.5B company.
Boy: Computers! That reminds me. We are running a tablet sale - you can get an 8"one with Android 1.0 at $56!
Girl: We are launching 4G in 200 cities now with a ₹250 up plan. We expect to touch $3B soon! Also new fancy algorithm!
Boy: Do you know we started a trade-in for old car tyres? We take them back and dump it in the Indian ocean for $50.
Girl: Is that why the sea is rising? I read it on our free NowNews app.
Boy: wow. We have so much in common!
Girl: They say marriages are made in heaven, through a common password for Wifi 😁
