Workplace musings: Part 1...

As with any employee of a public sector organization, I’m pretty much pissed with the hierarchal structure and the ambience at my workplace. It’s not like there’s dearth of talent or challenges here but there’s beating around the bush and nasty politics at each stage. Just like Dilbert puts it :D

I’m not gonna delve into functional details of my workplace, not in this post cuz I wanna start on a comical note as of now. But in the ensuing parts, I intend to make a clear analysis of what n where things tend to go wrong, in an organization in general with specific emphasis on PSUs...

Before I get into finer details, lemme get to the funnier ones...It beats me as to how one can have a global perspective when ppl in ur workplace suck at communication skills...And as some1 whoz always believed that language is a window to one’s overall personality, a spectacular powerhouse with which ppl n nations can b understood, it pains my arse bigtime when ppl make a huge mockery of this whole deal…

Lost in translation: A case in point

I’m hereby reproducing, verbatim, a conversation which took place between me and a technician (lets cal him jackass) which, I hope, will substantiate my aforementioned point.

As I strode into my workplace on an early Monday morning, I was greeted by a rather curious glance by Mr. Jackass who was carefully scrutinizing the livestrong band I was sporting. The following convo ensued…

“Jackass: Why is u wearing that black?”
“Yours_truly : Err, it’s a band, the proceeds of whose sale goes to the cancer research institute run by Lance Armstrong, the legendary cyclist who fought prostate cancer n created history by winning the tour-de-france seven times in a row (Lil’ did I know that all this explanation fell on deaf ears :x)
” Jackass: All that ok, but what is the use?”
“Yours_truly: (WTF?! What better purpose can anything serve?) Sir, it can be used as a friendship band”
“Jackass : Oh meaning u want to make friendship with someone, u put that ah?”
“Yours_truly: Umm, guess u cud say that (though the literary purists will squirm n writhe in disgust)
“Jackass: Oh then if u want to make love also u can put this ah?”
“Yours_truly: ( :o :P :D) Sir, for that, u actually need a different kinda rubber”
Hope u can understand my bewilderment after I heard that…Now if such is the state of affairs at what’s considered to be amongst the top PSUs, I can’t help wondering how it’d be in the ones in the lower echelons in the not-so-looked upto organizations (whatever that means!)

P.s. I promise not to pain u with such crappy convos in my ensuing posts lest u stop visiting my blog for distorting ur communication skills
P.p.s I don’t claim to be an exponent of communication, nor am I sayin ‘tis the only way forward…Jus ventin my frustration for being caught at the wrong place…
To be contd...