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Sunday, January 9, 2011

I don't want to know more people*

Every day in the morning I go to office, the first and foremost task is to greet everyone a Good morning.
It seems such a bad formality to me, and people too pause working for a while just to greet even though they really don't mean it. It is ok when I see them for the first time for that particular day.

This is not the end of it people!! Now every time I bump into that person again I say "Hey, How you doing!", raising my eyebrows, like I'm feeling very pleasant to see them. Some times by their nicknames "hey Kingfisher", "hey mallu", "hey sambar", "used the washroom, huh!!", turning back and asking "toilet papers out of stock? Your hand is wet!!" (Bullshit, unnecessary bothering about someone's wet hands )...

Oh my god .. This is not over. I have to greet them every time I bump into them.

To add some spice to my irritation, I received a mail from my admin dept in office saying we have to greet our foreign bosses in their own language. They also attached a file saying how to pronounce Good Morning in that language and the posture we have to follow while greeting them. I saw people greeting them in that posture. Its very theatrical to our Indian standards.

The mail also had a P.S. saying your bosses "Will feel happy" if you do so. I decided that day I am definitely not going to do so. I have solid reasons (that I state to myself only).
First of all, I am not there to keep my boss happy. Happy is what I may try to keep my parents/wife/kids/friends.
Secondly. I am paid to do the job, not to keep bosses happy.
It is ok and good to greet once a day and that too few people around me. But the whole lot!! Its another job. A part-time one for which I won't be paid. It ruins the thought or job that I am carrying at that time or the least it disturbs.
Then I decided not to get introduced to too many people unless inevitable. Let it be friend's friends, colleagues, bosses etc., I obviously know that I won't be meeting him/her again after I quit this job (coz quitting is for the reason I don't want to work there anymore).

*Conditions Apply

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