They come in the best of their formal wear in tune with the latest fashion... Their ears jammed with headfones switching from chartbusters to client calls... They get into the swanky elevators with other tagged professionals... They reach their respective floors, swipe their yellow red blue I cards...
They enter into their snazzy workstations, switch on their machines... Their cubicles decorated with memorabilia that reflects a part of their personal identity, thats the only space to "show off" your personal taste...
Women head for the washrooms.... The touch ups continue... Finally they add the last coat of lipstick and exchange pleasant glances... and another day starts
It starts with exploring the over flooded mailbox... Forwards, junks, irrelevant information, missed conversations, deadlines, failure to meet deadlines, unimportant events and so on...
Then its work, intercepted with regular bitching sessions... These bitching sessions are almost endless... It completes a full circle always--A to B to C and back to A and the saga continues.... What goes around comes around...
Well if you are curious about the subject of conversations well it can range from your appearance, lifestyle, your wardrobe, your personal life to your so called corporate character... Criticism is a stress buster for the modern day corporates... In case you don't criticise, you are way behind the bandwagon... So play on fellows... join the group...
Apart from bitching another game is "mud slinging"... In the middle of a conversation, just spot your prey and make him/her the laughing stock to boost your ego... If your prey is insignificantly submissive, it surely adds to the pleasure quotient... sadistic pleasure? no not at all.....its all about taking a break!
And while doing all this, never forget to blow the trumpets... Shout scream speak... the louder the noise, more easily you will be heard...
Well after the usual sessions of bitching, smirking and over indulgently oiling..Its again back to work and slogging hard... At the fag end of the day as they leave their workstations in their crisp formal wear, they are tired, back to their own lives, exploring the left overs of their personal space...
Exhausted, drained out, unbuttoned shirts, a quick splash under the shower, kohl smudged eyes--- they are all heroes...Bruised and battered heroes borne out of everyday mundane struggle, humiliation, pain, success and failure...Some win, some lose and some give up... but the urge to get to the top continues... the urge to dethrone is carefully nurtured by all of them every single day...
In the end the tired soul, stressed out with the tough battles of life, comes back to its cocoon...
And again yet another day begins amidst airconditioned cubicles, amidst deadlines, amidst the rat race....the heroes fight it out again...
8 comments:
kohl smudged eyes after a hard day at work (read bitching)..mighty sexy huh :P
U R so much right.. loved it
I quite like your style. It reflects thought... the line of thought of 'The Individual', that has survived the mundane.
I liked this post all the more because I chose not to do a 9 to 5 job.
I read some comments on your other posts... and couldn't help but forward my point of view.
I have often noticed that comments are written from the readers perspective. Now a reader is important... that is why we write in a public forum. However it is also the readers responsibility to try to read into the authors perspective. To callously remark without weighing the mood or tone of the author is a misuse of our liberty with words.
Feedback is vital. I pointed out grammar and there are two errors in this post too. That is a technical detail.... important but not overwhelming. So dismissing a post for the want of technical detail alone is inappropriate. Reason why I simply ignore comments that I feel fail to grasp what I meant to write.
I think you are good... you have crisp, lucid and clear presentation of thought.
Me likes :)
I personally dislike voluble comments. So please delete when read or I will when I visit your blog next.
Nooooooooo ...dont have to delete them... i like your comments
Err... I meant only this one. It is a wee bit too long.... talkative hoye jachey je :)
hok talkative...ami nijeo prochondo talkative!
yes...class-e deyal-er dike mukh kore punishment mone pore!!
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