Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Glass Walls


A land of flat organizations, open door policies, wide open spaces and casual birthday celebrations! The nuo atmosphere of a seldom disturbed office in modern India. Everything is beautiful, not a thing to care about not a worry in the world.


You can walk into the CEO's open cabinet and tell him about the wonderful time you had surfing the net last night. A junior can come up to you and casually speak of the dinner that awaits him made by his recently enjoined wife.


Oh yes these are the days to be working my friend where there life at work is comparable to a homely environment of friends more than colleagues and family more than co - workers.


You feel happy about this, you wonder that perhaps they were wrong about the big bad world outside! We were told lies! Life in the corporate world is brilliant we have no walls! none i tell you None!


PLUNK - What is this....its not a wall...no not at first sight...its Glass.


The CEO has not heard a word you said, he is looking at the cost that you are incurring to the company while you chat with him, a cost that he has to keep down. You dont have time to worry about your junior's food because you need to teach him his job and you cant stand it that he is hungry all the time.


There are no happy birthdays as we realise that a year has gone by and we are still in the same job doing the same things. The friends are worse than enemies who try to know everything about you and then bartering that with other tasty information. Co - workers are nosier than family as they want to know everything about you. And yes no one i mean no one cares!


This glass wall is well built.....its clear....and thats fun!



1 comment:

der untermensch said...

People who live in glass houses..have to answer the bell. Accountability, transparency, loss of identity, frustration, ennui. Love how you capture everything in one short blog post, and put it all out there. Brilliant post man. On a completely unrelated side note, WHATS UP DOG!!!!!!! get on gtalk sometime im poor and broke and cannot make phone calls, ping me online sometime bitch! :D