Agony.....Apathy

My Lord I have come here with a question, an accusation and a grievance.

Put your case in front of the Jury and Justice shall prevail, echoed the vast room.

Very well, I started my case:

Respected members of Jury, I have come here to accuse the guilty of Attempt to Murder.

Attempt to murder the very software industry which gives them their bread,

Attempt to murder the mutual trust which people put in them,

Attempt to murder the sacred cow that they were asked to guard, they have misrepresented the country that they live in, because in a world of rapid globalisation people have started to accuse us Indians with their traits. They have started to believe that Indians are cheats, crooks and liars. They dont honour their commitments, respected Jury I ask you today, isn't this the land where millions gave their lives in the line of courage just to honour their commitments. "Pran jaaye par vachan naa jaaye" so goes the adage, which means I might lose my live but I wont dishonour my commitment.

A project manager ceases to be an ideal, an example in front of the team who everybody wants to emulate. Today nobody wants to be like his Project Manager, because he is the most spineless guy in the team, he is the person who would lie in the face of lie even. "I wrote you a mail about this", " But I thought you said you were not well yesterday", "Yes i wrote you that mail at 2 'o clock at night while I was on my way to hospital". This is the typical conversation he would have when he is talking to the client. Sitting behind you, he would go on to tell the client how he is not well and barely living on medicines and give out a fake laugh. After shamelessly praising the client for some decisions he has taken, he would gently put the phone down.

After that he would call another fellow project manager and start to boast, "Maine usski lagaa di" meaning I just screwed the guy and would go on to add how he has told him not to mess with any of his colleagues and he is a fool etc etc. He in every word of it ails with Dual Identity disorder.

I have seen and heard a lot of HR policies regarding how you should not talk in derogatory language with your managers and always wondered who would do such a thing. But after seeing such people I have come to realise why these policies were framed in first place. I fail to understand how a project which is never critical from morning 8-4 suddenly starts getting critical when evening comes and its time to stay late. These people make a perception and impress over people that if you are not staying after office hours, you are not at all concerned with the project. why dont they work during office hours and why they cant complete their work within office hours. Now they have mdae the world think that Indians are incompetent people who cannot complete their work in time but they dont respect their family life, so they still spend more time in office trying to do what entire world completes within office hours. While in India the who's who would be sitting over together and pondering how only they are concerned about work while nobody does that in the world. So much so for "self-appreciation".

In a room with a manager everyone would make sure that they do not speak anything that might be quoted against them, while people would make sure to appreciate their managers in every possible way though they would be ready to trash him once they are out of the room. Suddnly manager's manager enters the room and situation changes, the manager would don the mantle of follower and suddenly everyone else becomes trivial in the room. The topic of conversations change and everything is meant to please the BIG BOSS. The unctuarity just assumes mammoth proportion.