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Cost of a Call

One politician, One thief & One Programmer died & went straight to hell. Politician said “I miss my country, I want to call my country and see how everybody is doing there. He called and talked for about 5 minutes, then he asked “Well, devil how much do I owe you???? The devil says “Five million dollars” The Politician wrote him a cheque and went to sit back on his chair.

Thief was soo jealous, he starts screaming, “My turn! I wanna call the my group members, I want to see how everybody is doing there too” He called and talked for about 2 minutes, then he asked “Well, devil how much do I owe you????

The devil says “Ten million dollars” With a smug look on his face, he made a cheque and went to sit back on his chair.

Programmer was even more jealous & starts screaming, “I want to call other IT person too, He called other IT person and he talked for twenty hours about various technologies and Project Managers, he talked & talked & talked, then he asked “Well, devil how much do I owe you???? The devil says “Twenty dollars”. Programmer is stunned & says “Twenty dollars??? Only ??”

The devil says “Well if you make a call from one hell to another hell, it’s local”.
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If you have ever worked in Indian IT MNC and slogged for 10 out of 12 months, I am sure you will be able to relate to this joke. I know, I do! :) (via Sudhir)

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6 Responses to “Cost of a Call”

  1. Swaroop C H Says:
    January 21st, 2005 at 10:40 am

    I’m sorry, I am a bit dull in the head I know, but what’s funny about this joke? Does it mean programmers are evil?? ;)

  2. Shaded Says:
    January 21st, 2005 at 11:19 am

    Evil? Surely not. I’d like to think of us as unforgiven.

  3. JD Says:
    January 21st, 2005 at 11:17 pm

    If you read my footnote, it says that you can relate if you have worked in Indian IT MNC. I should have probably said, Indian IT SERVICES MNC. You are lucky that you are working for good company like Yahoo, but someone like me who has worked in one of the Top 3 IT Services Company, story is bit different.

    There is so much slogging, pathetic treatment of developers, no social life etc. making our company/job HELL. So, the joke tells this fact by letting developer know that call from Hell to another ‘hell’ is local!

    I certainly don’t mean that developers are evil, we are the nice and poor folks! ;)
    JD

  4. Swaroop C H Says:
    January 22nd, 2005 at 1:15 pm

    Heh heh. Ok, I am just a newbie to the industry, so I can’t really say much. However, it’s true that I like the environment I’m in and can’t complain about much, except that the AC is too chilly at times :)

  5. Swaroop C H Says:
    January 22nd, 2005 at 1:58 pm

    Hmm, I painted a really rosy picture above, for the past 4 months I had a really crazy and tough time trying to work on a big project single-handedly, I shudder to be in the same stress again, however, I still like the kind of things I get to work on and explore…

  6. Sudhir Parasuram Says:
    March 10th, 2005 at 7:44 am

    Hi,

    Glad to see your mention of my blog. Thanks for it :)
    Cheers,
    Sudhir.P

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