The Law of Newton was re-written by someone in a humourous fashion and was emailed to me as one of those forwards that come in everyday. One of them made me think hard and long. It read: “When you are late to office, if you lie to your boss about having a flat tyre, the next day you will have a flat tyre”. Someone also had written a definition for the term “boss”. It said “a boss is a person who is always late when you are early and is early when you are late”. I don’t know if someone experienced this or if that is the norm everywhere.
My workplace is different – different from what I had expected, different from where I worked earlier. Everyday has been a learning experience; learning to cope with lies, blame and wandering eyes. I brushed aside initial apprehensions (although they existed at that time) of these factors. To my horror, this place has turned about to be a place that needs wits and malice to cope with, something I’m not used to. The only girl I trust and talk to only gossips about fellow employees and I choose to remain mute – for I dislike gossip and these gossips seemed to me like deadly information that I’d rather not have known about. I didn’t even care to find out if they indeed were true. My boss seems like a nice man however, if he wants something, it’s always now. Being new to the company and to the industry with which I work, he has excused a few minor slip-ups, something that I’m grateful to him about. I was later told (through the grapevine, of course) that my boss disliked the girl I speak to and that I should keep away from her!? How can I avoid this girl who has been my only companion since my association with this organisation 4 months ago? I’ve still been trying. However, she now seems to me like a nosy aunt with none else to do other than ask what I’m doing!!!
Fate has always been unkind to me, for I’ve been entrusted with the responsibility of undertaking this task that my boss has strictly branded CONFIDENTIAL, not the superficial confidential but confidential!! Gosh! This nosy aunt has vowed that she’d find out what I’m up to (she dismissed my schoolgirl – excuse that I didn’t know what I was doing!?), a story I thought later too unreal to buy! I’d rather have told her that it was confidential!!!
I have finally learnt the art of politely avoiding this woman that my boss dislikes....
Workplace is one place where diplomacy pays better than your employer!
Now, now time to get to work...
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