60-second IT scenarios

At Chennai Egmore railway station, the ticket counter has a single printer shared by 4 booking clerks. When Clerk 1 starts printing a 12-page reservation chart, Clerk 2 immediately sends a 3-page cancellation list. The printer finishes all 12 pages of the chart first, then prints the 3-page list. Clerk 3's single-page urgent VIP booking waits behind both, even though it arrived while the chart was still printing.

Priya manages inventory at a Bangalore medical supplies warehouse. Every morning, she receives a list of 50 items to pack for hospital deliveries. She picks items in the exact order they appear on the list — Item 1 from Aisle A, Item 2 from Aisle M, Item 3 from Aisle B, back to Aisle A for Item 4. Her colleague Karthik suggests she could save 2 hours by grouping all Aisle A items together, then all Aisle B items, regardless of list order. Priya refuses because the hospital's system expects items scanned in the exact sequence printed.

At a Mumbai bank branch, Meena processes loan applications using a strict rule: she opens each application envelope, reads the applicant's credit score, and if it's below 650, she immediately rejects it and moves to the next envelope without reading income, employment, or collateral documents. On a busy Monday, she processes 83 applications in 4 hours. Her manager Ravi processes only 41 applications in the same time because he reads every document in every envelope before making any decision.