Free from Boredom: Office Office!

Office is a remarkable institution- it is the melting pot of all kinds of people. But before I start off on a boring piece of multiculturalism, let me neatly divide the office population into three groups-

The Intellectuals- A rare commodity. They hardly belong here, they do not like their work, their hobbies do not match with the rest and amusingly, their hobbies can actually become their full-time work(??) if there was no pressure from conjugal life, kids, parents, belly(food!) etc. So how to identify them? Simple. Their clothes are "thoda hadke"(distinguishably different) and their talk all the more so. They utter long lost poems in Urdu, listen to Ghazals and Thumri, yet have an encyclopedic knowledge of classical English literature and western music of the yesteryear's. Their movies do not play in the PVRs or Waves. They wait for the Osians and discuss Bergman (may his soul rest in peace) and Goddard. They seem to agree that there were only two directors of any class ever born in India- Satyajit Ray and Ritwick Ghatak. The Benegals, Sens and Ghoses are just pretenders!
The Half-Intellectuals- A far more common breed. They are stuck in the middle. they sometimes like their work, sometimes they don't. They are torn between their mediocre tastes and the promises of higher thinking. They are also aware of their limitations- they are too materialistic and crass to evolve into the first group. They like their junk food, Action movies, Harry Potter to discard all the pedestrian stuff. To them, My Brother Nikhil, Swades, Black etc stand for cinematic excellence. Their reading habits follow the bestseller lists.
The Workers- They do not seem to think. They do work, they are happy and then they party.Chilled out people, their life stands for many things- gadgets, parties, food, family and even work! They like career planning, usually aware of how to grow their money and somehow they are also not at peace, in spite of the fact that this is what they wanted to do in the first place. As for ID, look for KJo and Jlo fans, people who've heard of Britney Spears but not Morissette, and swears by the crappy business books that come out every week.