Good goes around

Friday evening...the end of one more busy week...i was ready to pack my bags and head back to my room and unwind for the weekend. Just then, my team supervisor comes up and asks me if I'd like to volunteer for a Hurricane relief telethon. Well...I'm always up for such kinda stuff, but friday evening didnt seem a really good time to be doing that. It just happened that the office that we're doing our project at had volunteered with their customer service centre and their employees to take pledges from people on behalf of the American red cross for the Hurricane relief fund.

Well...So...I told her that I'd try to make it at 7...and went back to my hotel, put on some music and kicked back with a cool drink. Just when I thought that I'd managed to give the whole thing a slip...behold...the phone rings and yup....it's my Team manager asking me what time would I be walking in cause she was waiting for me at the designated building. Now...me being someone who's never learned all my life, how to say NO to people, dragged myself al the way back to office for the event.

Surprise...surprise! There was a whole lot of people who were in there that friday evening. The atmosphere looked really lively. After our quick briefing session with some really nice Volunteers, our group walked in and we took our designated seats. We put our headsets On and they were playing the live Concert on TV. And then..people started calling in...with their pledges...all for a good cause. First, it brought back memories of 3 years ago when I worked as a tech support associate back in India. But after I while it all evened out. The whole thing really turned out to be a realy fulfilling experience. And the whole group of enthusiastic people really lifted my spirits up that evening. And it got better when the volunteers told us that in the first hour of the concert, volunteers like us , all over the US had managed to get pledges worth 2million $, all going in to the victims of the hurricane. Kudos!

Of course, something that I wasn't really enthusiastic about initially, turned out to be a great experience eventually. On a lighter but sad note, I even had a guy who hung up on me just cause he though he could speak to Sir Paul McCartney just cause he wanted to pledge 5000$. Loser!

And that's what I call....an evening spent well !