The Airforce Love

Chapter-07

Abhinav's POV:

I just came back from my workout session and my phone pinged a mail, it was from my department Air Commodore Sr. Ganapathy Vasishta that three new flying officers right after completing their training at the academy would be joining my team, well actually my team needed resources and I had mailed about the same a couple of weeks back and thankfully the resources are finally allotted, I felt excited to work with the newbies and just then I saw their names mentioned as Arunita Singh, Charan Narayanan, and Cherishya Rao...the name seemed familiar...I kept brooding about that name and on my way to the office I suddenly remembered that it was that over-smart girl at the academy because of whom I was teased so badly by my friends yesterday...I was determined to mend her attitude for sure...

When I reached my cabin, I saw the three new officers, not bad I was impressed by their punctuality. When I removed my shades I saw that stupid girl shocked and her eyes seemed to pop out...Silly woman. Later I addressed the three and welcomed them to my team and also congratulated them on clearing their training then I asked them to follow me to the discussion room because there were specific rules and instructions I wanted them to follow especially if they were working in my team but all the while Cherishya or Perishya or what so ever was gawking at me stupidly, she is the only one whom I have disliked at the very first meet in my life I guess...

Later in the discussion, I clearly gave all the instructions and when it came to the assignment of the first day's task I allotted Charan and Arunita simple tasks...but then it was the turn of "The over-smart" officer Cherishya...so I gave her a bit trickier task and an important task of updating the status of all the parameters to all the departments...well I was not sure if she could do it but I wanted to show her that she doesn't "know it all" and she needs to learn a lot...let me see how well they perform today...

It was already afternoon and I was about to leave for lunch but then I got a mail of complaint mentioning our team not updating the status of an aircraft which was about to take off and then within a few seconds I received a trail mail of complaint about not updating the weather statistics and forecast of a region for the flying department, at first I was confused because usually it is done by Sameeksha, my teammate...but then it suddenly strikes me that today I had asked Sameeksha to not do it as I had already asked that Cherishya of a girl to do it...Damn, I thought there might be errors in her update but this girl hasn't even updated anything so far because the update says that the last update was 8 hours ago...I was so angry and furious because this is the first-ever time a complaint has been raised against our team, I was so infuriated that I called her and asked her to come to my cabin...I was fuming and she entered, she was standing with such a confident face that I got even more irritated and started blasting, "What do you consider yourself... didn't I ask you to update the status to the portal right in the morning, but why isn't it updated...it's already been two slots since the status has been updated, do you even realize that because of you there could have been an accident...a fighter copter which had taken off had to land immediately because of an error with the fuel engine and you haven't even updated the weather forecast yet...I have received around 20 emails of complaint about it...It's been just a day and you are already not respecting and valuing the higher officer's instructions, I wonder how did you even pass the academy training, I don't accept any sort of excuses, stop being over-smart and just obey the instructions", I was really upset because this could have actually caused some dangerous accidents also since I knew how disrespectful she was to me during the training I knew she did it just to rile me up so I was actually very rash with my words...I mean she really needed it, But the audacity of this girl I'll tell you that she started defending herself telling,

"But sir I had actually updated, but I don't know why didn't reflect.."

By now I was more than pissed that I told " So you mean there was an error with the portal and you're Ms. Perfect??", but then I observed her she looked a bit timid or scared maybe, and she answered, "I honestly had updated sir...".

I just thought maybe she had actually done her task and thought of giving her a chance so I told her, "Well connect your id with my desktop...let me actually check how much of an honest person you are...".

I wanted to be extra strict with her so that she actually mends her attitude and turns out to be a perfect officer and just then she blurted a small "okay sir".

As she logged into her account, I was surprised to see the status actually being updated, then why was it not reflected I wondered but I asked her to open the inter-department portal, and she started to blink as though I asked her some rocket science and asked me in turn, " Which portal sir?? I was given credentials only for this portal?", at first I didn't get her but later I realized and bluntly grunted," What!!! Oh no...why haven't they added you newbies yet...". I was so pissed, I had clearly told all three of them to ask me if they had any doubt why can't this girl leave her superego and just ask me if she didn't know the exact procedure to update, I was really raged that I asked, " Didn't I tell you to revert to me in case of any doubt...you were supposed to report to me as soon as you update, then why didn't you huh??". But I saw she dared to give me an excuse that she was having lunch, the one thing I absolutely hate at my workspace is people giving excuses, everyone can give tons of excuses but completing the task in spite of all those excuses is a true professional.

"Seriously, what are you in?? A school, college...This is totally unprofessional and let me tell you this is least expected from an officer" I laughed...only if this girl would have come and reported to me about her tasks, I would have asked Sameeksha to update the same at the inter-department portal. But then I saw her tearing up, I instantly felt a bit bad or some sort of feeling that I immediately said," You will be given the credentials soon, till then you must come and report me after every update you make so that I can update the same at the other inter-department portal and remember WORK should be your priority, you can leave now" I told her and dismissed her to go...

I was really frustrated about everything that happened and badly wanted some caffeine in my body right then so I headed towards the mess, thankfully I met Manish there, sipping his Khadak Chai as usual, without looking at my watch I could tell that the time was exact 2:30 PM...I went to him and he looked surprised as I usually don't come to mess in between the work hours...we both sat down and we talked casually for some time, then we spoke about planning our next trekking and stuffs later we both left for our respective cabins...I felt so much more relaxed now...If someone asked me weren't you all angry a few minutes before...I would say "you might have mistaken me, I don't remember me getting angry"...I actually just let things go and won't keep anything in my heart for a long time...I think forgiving and forgetting is the sutra of life...

Later on, the day went off quite smoothly and at exact 4:30 PM Cherishya came to my cabin and reported me all the updates, I noticed that she looked as though I have offended and wronged her, I later asked "How did you find our department and our team? " just to lighten up because I don't like anybody sulking in my team...she looked as if she will strangle me any moment and blurted out a sturdy "good sir", what's wrong with this girl, always pissed and annoying...anyway, I just hummed and dismissed her. I don't know how her family bears this crazy girl.

Later that day when I reached home, I heard Karna screaming and bashing someone on phone, when I heard their conversation that girl was humiliating Karna that he is useless, irresponsible and he doesn't give his best at work and calling him names like "pedhashikamani [the dumbo]", I felt so angry and right then I decided on talking to this girl and warn her a bit...

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