It has been quite some time
that I wrote something, then all of sudden I realized how come I missed writing
about the things that I put myself through at workplace. And, ergo gossiping
about the gossip!
6 months into this alien
(corporate) land, I have witnessed people from being a modest, subtle, chaste
to being contentious, selfish, boot lickerish. It’s like working with a bunch
of chameleons, and sooner or later you are bound to become one. The first day of my office I
still remember my mom said” Never utter a damn word, be all ears all the time”.
(Mothers I thought) as it turns out she was right to every bit of it.
What would all the dog do when
10 dogs bark in front of him, sure as hell he will bark for all he knows he
doesn’t want himself to be left out, call it social outcast perhaps. And, the
next thing he knows he has just hammered the last nail in his coffin. One shall elevate the very
intentions of you to the senior and the next thing you know you are in your manager’s
cross-hair and by the time you realize- You are triggered, not fair but square!
Every story has 2 sides is what
they say, but in corporate genre you have myriad stories all liberated from a single
one and none of those; not even one stays remotely close to the raw one, it is
like "Creativity @ Peaks!"
Most of what one utters, falls
on deaf ears, had they been functioning then the real story would have made
buzz not the one that’s fabricated like- 100 times?! One doesn’t quite mind his
own business, for all we know- we humans are gifted with a nose.
You grab a cup of coffee with a
colleague of ours your ears are blessed with his version of the story you go
for lunch you hear a whole different story from another colleague and go for
dinner- hell breaks loose! It is so hard
to cajole ones heart, portraying others are bad for all you know you don’t know
a damn thing about what the reality is. Reality lies way below and is piled
upon by the creativity!
Being dialectical, sorting out
the melange of emotions that people pour out seems a conundrum that is hard to
crack. No matter how hard one tries to
evade the scene, they get to you hard and quick. The gossip is so contagious
that one can’t keep away from it; and everyone wants a piece of the crap!
Sooner or later one slogs his
ass only to save it from being kicked (harder). It so happens at times that you
get to pay the bet that you have not even agreed to, things spread like a wild
inferno setting ablaze all the reality and truth.
One need not have to put himself through the tough task of eavesdropping, wait for the moment, it shall come and your ears shall be blessed by the gossip and crave for help!
Adios! *Elated*
