2nd aug 2007,
My Office,
Chennai
It was around 10 pm. I was about to leave for home. When i planned to walkout , my fellow worker approached me that he needs my help to find an immediate fix for a critical issue. I agreed to help him, kept my bag in my cabin and i walked to his cabin.
We started working on the issue. I had totally immersed in to the process of resolving it and I didnt even realise that the time was running faster than what i was thinking. Somehow when i managed to find the root cause of the issue it has become 12 am, I felt my hunger and i thought that it is time to grab something to eat. I stepped out and walked towards my cabin to get the biscuit pack which i had kept in my bag.
When i searched for the biscuit pack in my bag, i found that it was not there in my bag. I did think for a moment whether i had eaten and forgotten that. To my surprise, when i looked down i found the empty biscuit pack in the dustbin. Still it took few minutes for my cold brain to start thinking. Then i realised that someone has come to my place when i was away. I immediately searched if anything else is missing . My thought was no wrong, i could not find my pouch in which i had kept my favorite mp3 player.
I was unable to think clearly for few minutes, i was wondering whether such thing could happen in the work place of an organization which is deemed as a World class company. My instinct alarmed me that i should act quickly to recover what i lost , But i had no clue how i am going to do that.
I came out of the bay to see whether anyone is around. Not a single living thing was there.I didnt know how to proceed in this tranquil ambience. I started walking towards the door at the entrance in search of any hint from where i can get started.
I was looking to the left, to the right, the roof and the floor trying to find some clue. I saw a small protrusion in the ceiling, a few steps ahead of the door. It looked like an electric lamp to me from the distance, but it was not glowing. when i moved more closer to it, i found that it is definitely not a lamp. What else it could be? Suddenly it flashed in my mind, that it should be either a fire alarm or a camera.
I was stuck, at that time i needed someone's help to find out what it is actually. I rushed towards the door at the entrance with no hesitation. I opened the door and i found so-called
security person, a sleepyheaded guy sitting in his chair. I informed him about the situation and asked whether he knows what is that thing on the ceiling. It was of no use in questioning that to him. He was not in a state to understand my words .
I decided not to wait anymore, i immediately took the steps and ran to the first floor from the sixth floor. I had a weak pattern of memory in my head, which told me that i have seen a place in first floor from where they monitor various pathways of the building with the help of cameras. My intension was to find whether the thing which i saw is a camera. If it is ??
i had no doubt that there i ll get the starting point of this thread.
I reached the first floor and i took deep breaths to get the extra oxygen i needed that moment very badly. I started looking around for that monitoring place. Oh My God !! My memory pattern was absolutely correct, there was the video monitoring place. I rushed in there and explained what has happened to the guy who was incharge there. He Confirmed that what i saw is a camera. I got back all my lost hopes.
The concept of monitoring through the cameras fixed in and around the building was better than I ever imagined. Cameras were set at various places in the pathways and all the pathways were monitored. But there was no option to monitor what is happening inside the workplace, since it is against the company's privacy policy.The monitored videos were saved in the memory and one can watch it whenever he wishes to see that. Luckily since my cabin was very near to the entrance, I was able to find the people entering or leaving my cabin. I calculated the time for which i was away from my desk, which came approximately to two hours from 10 pm to 12 am. I decided to watch the saved videos that were captured by the camera that i found in the cieling in that time.
From the video i observed that by 10.15 pm almost everyone has started leaving the office and place became very much deserted. I had found no clue till that. By 10.30 pm the house keeping guys came in, they were roaming in and around the pathways while cleaning it. From the continued observation of the video i found that none other than these house keeping guys have come to the floor, while i was away.
I decided to observe the video more carefully, in the second observation i found the actions of two of those house keeping guys to be very suspicious. They monitored the position of the security person very often and one of them kept going inside and outside of my cabin for several times. Once, when he went in it took almost 7 minutes for him to come out of my cabin. If he had gone to clean the place he should have took the mop or broom or atleast a cloth in his hand, but he did not carry anything in his hand. I keenly observed that part of video again and again.
I was shocked for a moment, the house keeping boy who came out after that long interval was eating something when he came out and he marched in to the conference room directly which is located opposite to my cabin. I guessed, that something should be the biscuit which I had kept in my bag .
I immediately caught hold of that guy with the help of house keeping supervisor and interrogated him. He was very cool. He simply said that the biscuit pack with a single biscuit was lying over the table and he ate that single biscuit before putting the biscuit pack in to the dustbin. He said that he did not even touch my bag and he asked a question very cleverly whether is there any video capture which shows that he has touched my bag.
Again i lost my hopes, i was unable to decide whether he is telling the truth or he is lying. I came back to sixth floor. I sat in my seat for a moment and started recollecting each and every frame of that video. Then i went to the security person and enquired him if he checks the house keeping guys when they leave the place after doing their work.
The security person replied that it is a regular pracitce to check the house keeping guys when they leave after their work and he also told an additional information which helped me a lot. He told the house keeping guys are checked when they enter the building, and the things which they bring in are noted down and while they go outside the building they are checked whether they carry anything else with them which they didnt bring in.
Then an idea flashed like a ligthning in my mind, from the recollected video i could remember the guy heading towards the conference room when he comes out of my cabin. I went in to the conference room and searched the room from its top to bottom. It was a winning guess. I found the empty pouch being thrown in the corner of the conference room. I called in the house keeping supervisor and asked him a single question, whether he needs any other evidence to prove that his guy has done this.
I could see his head bending towards the floor out of shame. I told him that i am going to police with all these evidence if he is not going to get me my things with in an hour. It worked and i got back my mp3 player with in 30 mins. The supervisor slapped that guy and he admitted that he has stolen my pouch and he returned my mp3 player which he has hid in the restroom. It became 5.00 am when i got all my lost things. Though it was a sleepless night i started to home with a satisfaction and pride that i have found the culprit.
And this is the story of How i became holmes..........
My Office,
Chennai
It was around 10 pm. I was about to leave for home. When i planned to walkout , my fellow worker approached me that he needs my help to find an immediate fix for a critical issue. I agreed to help him, kept my bag in my cabin and i walked to his cabin.
We started working on the issue. I had totally immersed in to the process of resolving it and I didnt even realise that the time was running faster than what i was thinking. Somehow when i managed to find the root cause of the issue it has become 12 am, I felt my hunger and i thought that it is time to grab something to eat. I stepped out and walked towards my cabin to get the biscuit pack which i had kept in my bag.
When i searched for the biscuit pack in my bag, i found that it was not there in my bag. I did think for a moment whether i had eaten and forgotten that. To my surprise, when i looked down i found the empty biscuit pack in the dustbin. Still it took few minutes for my cold brain to start thinking. Then i realised that someone has come to my place when i was away. I immediately searched if anything else is missing . My thought was no wrong, i could not find my pouch in which i had kept my favorite mp3 player.
I was unable to think clearly for few minutes, i was wondering whether such thing could happen in the work place of an organization which is deemed as a World class company. My instinct alarmed me that i should act quickly to recover what i lost , But i had no clue how i am going to do that.
I came out of the bay to see whether anyone is around. Not a single living thing was there.I didnt know how to proceed in this tranquil ambience. I started walking towards the door at the entrance in search of any hint from where i can get started.
I was looking to the left, to the right, the roof and the floor trying to find some clue. I saw a small protrusion in the ceiling, a few steps ahead of the door. It looked like an electric lamp to me from the distance, but it was not glowing. when i moved more closer to it, i found that it is definitely not a lamp. What else it could be? Suddenly it flashed in my mind, that it should be either a fire alarm or a camera.
I was stuck, at that time i needed someone's help to find out what it is actually. I rushed towards the door at the entrance with no hesitation. I opened the door and i found so-called
security person, a sleepyheaded guy sitting in his chair. I informed him about the situation and asked whether he knows what is that thing on the ceiling. It was of no use in questioning that to him. He was not in a state to understand my words .
I decided not to wait anymore, i immediately took the steps and ran to the first floor from the sixth floor. I had a weak pattern of memory in my head, which told me that i have seen a place in first floor from where they monitor various pathways of the building with the help of cameras. My intension was to find whether the thing which i saw is a camera. If it is ??
i had no doubt that there i ll get the starting point of this thread.
I reached the first floor and i took deep breaths to get the extra oxygen i needed that moment very badly. I started looking around for that monitoring place. Oh My God !! My memory pattern was absolutely correct, there was the video monitoring place. I rushed in there and explained what has happened to the guy who was incharge there. He Confirmed that what i saw is a camera. I got back all my lost hopes.
The concept of monitoring through the cameras fixed in and around the building was better than I ever imagined. Cameras were set at various places in the pathways and all the pathways were monitored. But there was no option to monitor what is happening inside the workplace, since it is against the company's privacy policy.The monitored videos were saved in the memory and one can watch it whenever he wishes to see that. Luckily since my cabin was very near to the entrance, I was able to find the people entering or leaving my cabin. I calculated the time for which i was away from my desk, which came approximately to two hours from 10 pm to 12 am. I decided to watch the saved videos that were captured by the camera that i found in the cieling in that time.
From the video i observed that by 10.15 pm almost everyone has started leaving the office and place became very much deserted. I had found no clue till that. By 10.30 pm the house keeping guys came in, they were roaming in and around the pathways while cleaning it. From the continued observation of the video i found that none other than these house keeping guys have come to the floor, while i was away.
I decided to observe the video more carefully, in the second observation i found the actions of two of those house keeping guys to be very suspicious. They monitored the position of the security person very often and one of them kept going inside and outside of my cabin for several times. Once, when he went in it took almost 7 minutes for him to come out of my cabin. If he had gone to clean the place he should have took the mop or broom or atleast a cloth in his hand, but he did not carry anything in his hand. I keenly observed that part of video again and again.
I was shocked for a moment, the house keeping boy who came out after that long interval was eating something when he came out and he marched in to the conference room directly which is located opposite to my cabin. I guessed, that something should be the biscuit which I had kept in my bag .
I immediately caught hold of that guy with the help of house keeping supervisor and interrogated him. He was very cool. He simply said that the biscuit pack with a single biscuit was lying over the table and he ate that single biscuit before putting the biscuit pack in to the dustbin. He said that he did not even touch my bag and he asked a question very cleverly whether is there any video capture which shows that he has touched my bag.
Again i lost my hopes, i was unable to decide whether he is telling the truth or he is lying. I came back to sixth floor. I sat in my seat for a moment and started recollecting each and every frame of that video. Then i went to the security person and enquired him if he checks the house keeping guys when they leave the place after doing their work.
The security person replied that it is a regular pracitce to check the house keeping guys when they leave after their work and he also told an additional information which helped me a lot. He told the house keeping guys are checked when they enter the building, and the things which they bring in are noted down and while they go outside the building they are checked whether they carry anything else with them which they didnt bring in.
Then an idea flashed like a ligthning in my mind, from the recollected video i could remember the guy heading towards the conference room when he comes out of my cabin. I went in to the conference room and searched the room from its top to bottom. It was a winning guess. I found the empty pouch being thrown in the corner of the conference room. I called in the house keeping supervisor and asked him a single question, whether he needs any other evidence to prove that his guy has done this.
I could see his head bending towards the floor out of shame. I told him that i am going to police with all these evidence if he is not going to get me my things with in an hour. It worked and i got back my mp3 player with in 30 mins. The supervisor slapped that guy and he admitted that he has stolen my pouch and he returned my mp3 player which he has hid in the restroom. It became 5.00 am when i got all my lost things. Though it was a sleepless night i started to home with a satisfaction and pride that i have found the culprit.
And this is the story of How i became holmes..........
