Sleep Management

3.45 AM: Leadership Theories, Motivation theories, McGregor, McClelland, Herzberg, Maslow. Good. Great Going.

But will I be able to remember all this stuff. (From past experience, the answer was NO). I shall get up at 6.45 tomorrow morning and revise the stuff once and then I should be able to crack it. I'll set the Alarm clock at 6.45 AM.

3.50 AM: Lights switched off. Laptop is kept ON so that I can save a couple of minutes when I would have to boot it.

3.55 AM: Leadership theories, Motivation theories, Staffing, McGregor, McClelland... Fuck.. Staffing?? Holy cow, Staffing?? Damn.

Never mind, will get up at 6 and do it. Shit man.

4.00 AM: I Set the alarm clock at 6 and switch off the lights.

Between 4 and 6: Although I am sleeping, my brain is full of management jargons. I could feel the McGregors and the Maslows roaming around in the moribund lanes of my virtual world. I also remember saying to myslef "Cha! what pain, I should not put a night out for such fart courses". And god only knows when it was 6.

6 AM: My Nokia cell phone goes beep -beep. beep -beep.

As is the usual practice, I press the button on the top right corner which says "snooze". Or so I thought. My snooze time is 4 minutes.. I had calculated in the meanwhile that if I snooze four times and get up on the fifth beep.. it'll be 6.16 AM and I shall have a good one hour to mug.

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I wake up with a start. I frantically search for my cellphone. It reads 08:03. What the heck.. something is wrong. I figure out in the next two minutes that I had an exam at 8 and I am in my room at 8:05. Fuck. Is this real?

It was.

I grab a trouser and a Tee, change into them and get out of the room. Get hold of a cycle and cycle like mad. Thoughts crossing my mind:

- One of my good friends had slept through the first quiz and I am about to join his league
- The only course where I expected an S and I screwed it.
- Will the Prof. allow me to sit for the quiz?

By now I am almost at the exam hall. Hurriedly I enter the room and the Prof. greets me with me with a " Why are you late?". I probably did not bother to answer. I Grab the answer sheet and find a seat besides one of my other good friends. He seems not to be perturbed by my presence.

It is 08:12.

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Principles of Management. Time: 50 Minutes. Total 25 Marks. 5 X 5.

Answer any Five of the following:

Q1. Selection methods - What the heck is this!! Oh! Staffing.. Shit Shit Shit. Never Mind. Move on.

Q2. Aptitude, Attitude, Achievement - Staffing Shag again. God!! That is 10 gone.

Q3. Projective Tests - What the fuck is happening to me! Now where in the slides was this even talked about. That is 15 gone.

Q4. Theories of Motivation - Phew! 5 marks finally.

Q5. Communication - NOOOOOOO!!!! But let me not lose heart, Communication I can write something of my own, I should manage atleast two marks.

Q6. Managerial Grid - Peace - 5 more marks in the kitty... err.. maybe four. That makes it around 10 for the whole quiz. It is atleast better than not writing the quiz in the first place.


8.55: I manage to fill all the pages of the answer sheet and attempt five questions as per the Prof's wish.

Fuck. What an experience. I think I should blog about this.

It is at that very instant that I realised that I had pressed the "stop" button instead of the "snooze". He he he. I smile to myself.

That was a one-off experience for me and I thought I shall blog about it.

Will update the post as and when I get the answer sheets back. :-)