आयुष्यात अनेक प्रकारची माणसे भेटली आणि अनेक प्रकारचे प्रसंग घडले. काही चांगले, काही वाईट. त्यांतल्या लक्षात रहातील अशा व्यक्ती आणि घटना येथे मांडल्या आहेत. समोर येणा~या अडचणींतून मार्ग काढतांना बरंच काही शिकायला मिळालं. तेही लिहिलं आहे. त्यांतून माझा स्वतःचा मोठेपणा दाखविण्याचा हेतू बिलकूल नाही. इंटरनेटवर असलेली माहिती जगाच्या पाठीवर असणा~या कोणालाही घेता येते म्हणून हा सगळा प्रपंच. त्यांतले बरे वाटेल ते घ्या. जर त्यातून कोणाचा फायदा झाला तर हा सगळा खटाटोप सार्थकी लागला असे मला वाटेल.
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Guyanese Gate in Indian Hospital
My hospital has a large number of entry and exit points. In order to improve attendance by personnel, the administration decided to install biometric attendance system. They installed a number of machines near the entry points, and hooked them up to a central server. Any employee could sign in at any terminal. In order to decide who logged in at which terminal, they labelled these terminals electronically. In order to be scientific, they labelled them based on their locations. The two terminals near the main gate were labelled "Main Gate 1" and "Main Gate 2". They recently installed two near the exit of my department. I logged out yesterday at one of these terminals. Usually I do not check what the LCD window says, other than it allowed me access. But I happened to see that it said the terminal was "Guyanese 2". I was surprised. I went to the other terminal nearby and checked what it was called. It was called "Guyanese 1".
I Googled the word "Guyanese" to see if it had any meaning other than what I thought it meant. Wikipedia gave the following meaning of the word: "Guyanese may refer to: Something of, from, or related to the country of Guyana; A person from Guyana, or of Guyanese descent."
I wondered what Guyana had to do with a civic hospital in India. I had my suspicions, which were backed by my wife when I narrated this to her.
"They probably misspelled 'Gynec' as 'Guyanese'. Such things do happen" she said.
प्रशंसा करायचीय, नावे ठेवायचीयेत, काही विचारायचय, किंवा करायला आणखी चांगले काही सुचत नाहीये, तर क्लिक करा.