12 Hrs or 180 degrees

Life of a Software Professional (devloper, bachelor, living in bangalore, India)
8:30 am - Alarm Rings
8:31 am - Alarm clock flys across the room to the other end
8:35 am - Drags himself out of the bed
8:40 am - Bathroom details would be vulgar at such respected blogspot
9:00 am - drive to office(most probably on a second hand bike remember he is a devloper and a bachelor), shouts a few obscenities at his fellow drivers in the heavy traffic whn he hits or bumps another vehicle.
9:30 am - Enter cafeteria (off course this is the first place u visit in office) [oily puri or iddli dosa and tea]
10:00 am - Start with reading mails (official, unofficial(fwds, love mails frm distant girlfriends) , scraps(orkut facebook n ten othr social sites)[dissapointment - only 5 scraps from the last time u logged out at midnight]
10:30 am - US Boss pings u , tells u to join a call (u wonder about his capacity to work, always in awe of his dedication to work)
11:30 am - still on call with boss, discussion shifts to the various agendas for the day
12:00 noon - the call comes to an end. A bug has been reported by QA (boss says high priority).
12:30 pm - u r frantically searching for the QA guy (off course he wont be online, off to lunch probably). since u decide u cant proceed (as the steps to reproduce the bug is written in some sort of cryptic QA shorthand u cant decipher), u open ur orkut account n timepass.
1:00 pm - still no sign of the QA guy, u decide its time for ur lunch
2:00 pm - At last both the QA and devloper are online, together they sync up and try to reproduce the bug.
3:00 pm - bug not reproducible. Closed as "Not Reproducible".
3:30 pm - bug reopened by another QA guy.
4:00 pm - another frantic search for the QA guy (not online), after lingering around for some time u move to the TT room. Lucky ! u find the guy there, since u r frustrated u challenge him for a game ( the bet being u win he closes the bug and reopens it after 2 days). U loose ! u argue it was best of 3, U loose all 3.[the QA guy has been practising 3 hrs daily while u hardly get an hr ]
5:00 pm - The same bug is somehow now reproducible.
6 pm - 10 pm -U work ur ass off trying to apply all the software knowledge frm the memory bank of ur brain. [meanwhile since u have stayed late ordered for extra large pizza with double cheese layers, make sure u got the bill and submit it for reimbursement benifits].
10:30-11:00pm - Ur US boss joins u, both try to debug together.
11:30 pm - US boss decides too much to handle, if it can be somehow reproduced in older versions of product lets close as the base bug (not part of our enhancement so does not come in our queue) [Close as Not Applicable ]
12:00 midnight - a silent drive back home unlike the one in morning since the roads are deserted.
12:30 am - hit the sack.


Life of a US Software Professional ( technical manager, married, lives in CA,US)
[lets start the schedule from his night to be in sync with the guy in India, lets assume an exact 12 hrs difference]
10:30 pm - fought with wife , on the couch (thrown out from bedroom), no sleeping pills decides to talk to his team in india.
11:30 pm - tell the team in india how important deadlines are and how important it is for his career that the team meets those deadlines ( small talk here n there about an appraisal to kep the team motivated)
12:00 midnight - finds a bug that was in queue for a week , assigns it to the indian guy with high priority. pops in 2 sleeping pills
12:30 am - hits the sack (slang for bed , here means the couch)
8:30 am - wife knocks him off the couch
9:00 am - has a breakfast of cereals and freshly cut vegetables
9:30 am - drops wife to her office
10:00 am -reads mails
10:30 am - joins the indian guy to debug the issue
11:30 am - frustrated , decides too much to handle, if it can be somehow reproduced in older versions of product lets close as the base bug (not part of our enhancement so does not come in our queue) [Close as Not Applicable ]
12:00 noon - lunch
2:00 pm - counter strike on his 4 GB RAM laptop
4:00 pm - hits the gym
5:00 pm - hits the swimming pool
6:00 pm - play pool or cards with colleagues
7:00 pm - hits the stripclub with colleagues
8:30 pm - arrives at home with flowers , lies about an extended meeting with clients and how much inexperienced his team in india is and tht he has to handle all the work.
9:00 pm - while making love calls his wife by the strippers name by mistake
9:30 pm - still arguing about the name being of a business client ( imagine "oh sarah i love screwing u again and again")
10:00 pm - decides he has lost the argument , reconciles to the couch
10:30 pm - decides since he has nothin to do to talk to the team in india.

Results Comparison
1.Guy in India - No appraisals (Reason given: US slowdown , Actual Reason : US guy takes all the credit )
Guy in US - Heavy Appraisal ( Since a certain fixed amont is allotted to a team n the lack of appraisal has to be balanced somewher u see!!)
2.Guy in India - Obesity due to constant junk food in office daily and no time for gym workout , suffers a massive coronary in a decade or two (exception being he gets married and wife stops the supply chain for food)
Guy in US - Fit at the age of 60 also due to regular swimming and gyming.
3. Guy in India - Sex only once if lucky on the first night of marriage.(remember after u slog ur ass off for 12 hrs daily u sure as hell cant hunt for GF's and off course there are no strip clubs in india. the closest alternative being self independent
Guy in US - Sex ( 3 times a week or more for sure from wife if he is so drunk not to remember the strippers name and blurt it out at home , else u always have the option of extending the business meeting before returning home.