Tuesday, April 22, 2008

A dirty game......................

She was an ingenious, smart, brainy, sharp, and a valiant lady who was respected a lot among her co workers for her professionalism and her innovative spanking new ideas. She was valued a lot in the company as well as among her peers. Her work was appreciated and cherished by everyone in the office. Everything was going in a very tenuous manner for her, but unexpectedly she had to leave India with her husband for some years. This was the time when lot of development took place and she lost touch with her profession for quite some time. When she returned India she anticipated the same reverence and admiration for her work. But that didn’t happen, even though she was still much much better then her counterparts. She started hunting for a new job so that she can resurrect her dead career. Soon her search came to an end, and she joined a small corporation with almost three fourth of lesser pay package then what she use to get at her previous company though she never gave any importance to money as she joined that organization with only one thought in mind –reviving her dead career- and she started her job with lot of ecstasy and gusto in mind. She started acclimatizing herself with company’s work culture and people there. And once again she recouped her position in the company. Everyone was feeling exultant about the way she worked and mingled with people. Her growing reputation in the company was not liked by few bootlickers, as their prominence in the company was in dwindling state due to her assertive and obsequious attitude. And from here the real drama began…..the manager started meddling into her work; he started scrutinizing everything whatever she used to do. He started passing comments about the way she used to work. He even started espying every pint-sized detail about her work which she did not like , and finally talked to him about his conduct and treatment that she received from him, which further winded up the matter into worse. Her plainspoken and sassy attitude exasperated the manager. As he always liked people who can lick his boot or suck up to his willing. He never complimented anyone for their good deeds. But he always pinpointed even very – very petty slip-ups, which was abhorred by every single employee in the company. The only difference between her and other employees was that she was outspoken, audacious and gallant enough to put her thoughts in front of him. She repudiated to suck up to him; she did not accede to his offer of doing sycophancy. Instead of losing her self-esteem just for few pennies she recognized her sense of worth and went against his beliefs. He had some kind of bĂȘte-noir for her but he did not want to loose an endowed employee, so he tried other ways to bring her down. He changed her team, he shifted her place in office, and he assigned her
all extraneous and minor work, though it was not worthy of doing But she did.
This revealed her enduring, mellowing, and nonchalant attitude. When he came to know that she is not his cup of tea, and he can’t make her work on his own conditions and terms. He played his last grubby card- according to an old saying-if my memory serves me right, people in jealousy, smugness and arrogance can take any extreme step, because your pride kills your ability to think. And he acted in the same way as any other supercilious, self-centered person will do. He put his ego over the company's interest and resorted to his last weapon.She got fired!!! He did not realize the importance of firing out a gifted and skillful employee. And one more nifty and brilliant lady became a victim of sullied office politics. This whole episode had enormous impact on other employees mind,This left everyone in a very self-doubting, perplexed and fuming mood. Well to placate other employees the management played a one more nitpicky card. They threw all the types of lollipops that they could,(in a same manner when you throw some food to hungry and infuriated dogs)….only to people who sucked up to him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!......well this is the truth of professional world, from what I have seen in my very little tenure at a company….there is quote which is written by one of my friend , which is his personal view, though i did not get the meaning of the quote when he wrote it...

"professional World understands only two words....Suck and Fuck. Now its up to you which one you want. Either you are on your knees to suck or you make others bend on their knees to fuck them."

Life is very complicated.....the sooner you understand the funda of suck and fuck the better are your chances of survival.

"Either submit to suck......or get ready to fuck"

but I understood it after this …..
Which seems to be quite true in this scenario……….

22 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hello Preeti, i understand and I still remmeber those days when I had to see all these!!!

Its painful but SHE deserves the BEST!!

Thats all I can say!!!

preetisoni said...

@karuna mam

oh! mam who gave u this link..
well whenever i talk to her i feel the pain.....so i thought let me express in words....
as you said MAM..she DESERVE THE BEST..:):)

DK said...

thanks preeti for putting this hard truth of professional world.....
But many times u have to do wht u don't want to do.....and in return u have to go through the pain.....
That is wht i feel of myself after this incident......a helpless person who only think & unable to do anything for his peers........
But i wish, she get wht she really deserve........

preetisoni said...

are..dk..tu kahe itna feel kar raha hai...we all were in the same position......u , me .and every one yar....well whatever happened .it was good for her...now she has better plans in mind..:):)

bunty said...

u no preeti it's not d pblm of that manager only..............this is a pblm of most of the peoples.....
they don't want their juniors or undercomers to progress.........
do u think after reading this the peoples will change their thinking............
truly saying i don't think so.....are jo log wahan the unpe koi fark nai pada...........to baki kya samjhenge......

those who face this na....only they can understand dis.........

preetisoni said...

@bunty
bunty beta......bahut samjdar ho gaya tu.........

preetisoni said...

@bunty
tune bataya nahi tera exam ka result kya hua..IIT valo ne fail kar diya hoga pakka.:):):):)

bunty said...

haan about 2 b failed..........................

5th ko pata chalega result................


by the way.............main to hamesha se hi samajdaar tha.....koi nai baat thode hi hai ye

bunty said...

bechare ali ne tujhse pareshaan hoke likhna chhod diya............kyun satati hai bechare ko!!!!!!!!!!!!

preetisoni said...

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha...ali ne mujhse pareshan hoke nahi likhna choda...usne apni marzi se choda hai..:):):)

preetisoni said...

dikh raha hai tera smajdar pan...ak no ka nalayak ban gaya hai tu..:):)

Jyoti said...

I admire your dare to express this hard truth of so called "professional world"...

along with that i enjoy reading conversation between you and bunty..keep it up ;)

preetisoni said...

hey jyoti thanks for ur comment..:):):):):)..bunty is my bro..and i like to tease him...:):):):):):)anyways i tried to read ur blog, but when i click on ur name it displays enable to display...why so.....

bunty said...

ye nai bala(jyoti) kaun hai.....

whosoever........let me warn u........preeti se dur hi rehna.......verna paagal kar degi...........he he he.....

preetisoni said...

oye bunty bhiya ji.........ase kya hum pagal thore hi dikhat tuharko.....

preetisoni said...

or ladkiyo ko bla..bolna chod de..izzat dena sikh.....kuch..:):):):)kya bigad jata agar tummmbla ki bajay jyoti ji..bol deta..

Jyoti said...

@bunty: Calling me bala?? GRRRRRRR

m just a blogger who likes to read blogs whenever get time.

Jyoti said...

oh is that so, please try it again.
even if you are not able do that then, use this link:
www.weavedreamz.blogspot.com

Jyoti said...

oh is that so, please try it again.
even if you are not able do that then, use this link:
www.weavedreamz.blogspot.com

Prameela Jeppu said...

Well..nicely written Preeti.

Politics... It is present everywhere and is dirty everywhere it is present..!!

Mis-using power of authority is one thing most people wrongfully indulge in. One day hopefully both you and I will be in that manager's seat. That is the day I suppose we gotta remember to think like the way we think today. :) Try and be a manager who can command respect rather than demand for it.

Till then Preeti...keep blogging..!!

Jyoti said...

comeon preeti...update your blog yaar

preetisoni said...

@jyothi
ohh jyothi i was for last few days...i am free now :):)definately i will update it now:):):)