The number of us in the office has dwindled in the past week. We are between interns and the longish weekend has taken a toll as well.
The office meeting today was more cozy, more focused and as usual and eye opener for all of us.
We were discussing material quantities for concreting a roof. We heard all the quantities that Mallika had calculated and were nodding along in concurrence with her when Sai decided to do one of his ‘sanity checks’ to reconfirm the numbers. He broke down the items such that as per the calculation, we would need 3 bags of cement to concrete 100cft of roof and just like that, there numbers became more than just numbers. For all of us it became cement and sand and jelly. It became a roof to be cast.
The meeting is long over and everyone got back to the tasks at hand. But the simple association that happened in the morning lingered in all our minds. That we are not working with only drawings and numbers. We are working with cement and bricks and sand .... and more than that we are working with dreams and aspirations and all the emotions linked with it ....
The office meeting today was more cozy, more focused and as usual and eye opener for all of us.
We were discussing material quantities for concreting a roof. We heard all the quantities that Mallika had calculated and were nodding along in concurrence with her when Sai decided to do one of his ‘sanity checks’ to reconfirm the numbers. He broke down the items such that as per the calculation, we would need 3 bags of cement to concrete 100cft of roof and just like that, there numbers became more than just numbers. For all of us it became cement and sand and jelly. It became a roof to be cast.
The meeting is long over and everyone got back to the tasks at hand. But the simple association that happened in the morning lingered in all our minds. That we are not working with only drawings and numbers. We are working with cement and bricks and sand .... and more than that we are working with dreams and aspirations and all the emotions linked with it ....
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