How To Recognize A Travel Website Employee

Posted by Meghna on Aug 3,2021

Six weeks back, I stepped unarmed into the world of WAH, apprehensive about my first job and nervous as hell. My time here has been full of laughter and light moments and even if i rack my brains i cannot come up with a single instance when I felt like I hated my job or felt unhappy with what I was doing. With plenty of food for thought, (and plenty in my belly too, thanks to the unlimited supply of Maggi!) I prepare to step out of here and I wonder what I have taken from this little yellow world of WAH. A lot of things it seems, as you will discover upon reading on. Here is an firsthand account of a soon-to-be former travel website employee, about the goings-on in a company entirely focused towards bringing the world memorable travel experiences!

How To Recognize A Travel Website Employee

1. The individual will be alarmingly adept at rattling off names of states and their capitals and will often indulge in this activity even without be asked to do so. Studies suspect this to be a result of Boss Trivia Trauma (BTT) , whereby the employee is made to drop all other work and answer things like “What is the currency of Korea”? at random and oftentimes inopportune moments.

2. This person is often caught staring into space (and his/her computer screen) as though caught in a rapturous, all-consuming fantasy. Evidence however shows that this expression is in fact a mask adopted by the diligent worker as he/she calculates the price of an AC cab from Tinsukia to Changlang.

3. This person is often caught eating lunch alone because he/she was busy answering queries on the website’s live chat. Loss of appetite of this individual may be attributed to the nature of questions he/she was subjected to. Here’s a fine example – XYZ : Hi am Ronak wazzup can u sggst sum gud pckaage for taking grlfrn?

4. The employee is known to let out a mournful screech when asked to optimize bathroom images of hotels for the website. Philosophers have claimed that this is the most pitiful sound on earth. Wildlife experts on the other hand have observed this to be startlingly akin to the mating call of a now-extinct tropical bird.

5. There is a high chance of this employee being vaguely unaware about Anna Hazare’s latest endeavors or the latest squabble among the Bollywood Khans but being unnervingly well-informed about one hundred offbeat travel destinations in the country.

6. This soul will be able to tell at a glance, whether the picture of a tiger that he sees on the web is taken at Corbett, Ranthambore or Kaziranga. The same person however, may sometimes be caught wearing two different socks. Moral of the story? Selective attentiveness.

7. Such a person is the only one from his/her respective community who thinks of Sierra Leone upon hearing the very popular word ‘leone’. (Leone is the currency of the Sierra Leone, a country in West Africa.)

8. This diligent worker will be able to have an intelligent discussion with you about the best places to eat at when in Prague despite never having visited the city. He/she however, is yet to find out from which dhaaba Sonu bhaiya gets the chhola-kulchaas served during lunch. We inhabit two different worlds you see. Or maybe even three. Four?

9. The Facebook display image of this person will have be of him/her posing animatedly, always against the backdrop of a hill or a lake or meadow. This is deemed as a suspicious attempt at company promotion, though one can never be too sure …

10. This employee probably flunked a few Geography tests back in school and never really deciphered the purpose of a topography sheet he/she was made to unravel for his/her board exams, but can now give you the latitudinal and longitudinal location of every single place on Earth. Kya kahein, Google Maps toh hai hi ki kamaal ki cheez!

11. The internet history of such a person is littered with searches like “languages spoken in Vietnam” , “total area of Amsterdam”, “STD code of Kausani”, “deluxe rooms in Dream Hotel” and such.

12. Said employee is seen in a weekly state of nail-biting, hair-tearing turmoil as he/she/it tries in vain to come up with a genuinely funny and original post for the company’s blog.