This is a phrase my friend and I coined when I came to US for my first assignment, five years back. We used to use it to qualify our frustration which grew in leaps and bounds, especially with respect to our work then. My friend quit soon after ….
Recently, this phase has been a lot on my mind so decided to share the rationale.
Oh no! this is in no way a show of pride or arrogance. In fact, I believe that people like me who want to be qualified for the job we do, want to take bottom line responsibility of task assigned, work round the clock to dazzle, try to stay honest to people who report to us as much as we do to the people we report to, continue learning, stay sincere, earn love-and-respect and find unreasonable, dishonest and political ambiance at work or otherwise …very stifling belong to the lowest strata of achievers.
Because these attributes definitely do not translate to big bucks or overnight success or effective balancing of relations; it’s more of a constraint, a constraint wired in us.
So morons are not really morons but smarter people who know the art of credit-grabbing, back stabbing , drama creating and who can live happily with their own misplaced self-image of excellence.
What is frustrating is that when every now and then despite the route we have chosen, we are cornered to participate in their sleazy game by their rules. And it hurts to loose our peace of mind without getting any of the benefits of being an unfair player.
The perfect scenarios will be able to learn just enough tact to coexist with them without eroding the way of life and work that we have chosen. Till then there are breathing exercises and the ‘use the abuse’ policy.
3 comments:
I so know what you are talking about here. You voiced it for all of us I think. Another excellent blog my friend.
Be trU.. :)
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