A senior bureaucrat in a public
sector organization was asked if he was willing to take the very
attractive V.R.S. option as he had just 5 years to go for retirement. He
thought about it for a day and returned the next day to tell that he would
certainly not go in for it. It did not seem to make sense because the
money was extremely attractive and the gentleman had absolutely no
familial responsibilities which would come in the way of his hanging the
boots, so to speak. Then what made him decide in favor of continuing to
stay in the organization? The reason he gave was that if he were to leave
the organization where else would he get such free entertainment, on tap ?
This particular gentleman, with a puckish sense of humor, would pull
everybody’s legs and in the process derive enormous amount of job
satisfaction. He has of course rubbed many on the wrong side, especially
those who were once his peer level people who have now got up several
levels above him in the organization because they had their sights set
clearly without distractions and did exactly what was expected of them in
order to qualify for higher positions. As a junior level officer he was
putting up long-winded notes to the General Manager which would be signed
by his immediate boss who had not the foggiest notion of what these notes
contained. His immediate boss was certainly not known for his original
ideas nor for his contribution to decision-making; he has become the boss
because, as the gossip goes, he was bringing the freshest sabzi in
the town for his boss’s wife.
Our man would fully take advantage of the simplicity of the boss and make
him signatory to some very hilarious gaffes tucked away somewhere in the
penultimate paragraph of the note about whose existence his boss had
absolutely no inkling. The result was for everybody to see. The G.M. would
not fail to see the gaffes and consequently “hit the ceiling” and throw
the impugned folder at the signatory. The upshot of all this was some
mirth in the department but certainly no full marks for our man in his
Annual Performance Reviews.
Once the big boss in H.O. wrote a query in the margin on one of his notes
on the business potential available to the organization at one of the
shopping complexes .A mischievous reply was written just below the
comments that out of the 1500 shops only 250 shops were occupied. The big
boss queried again as to what happened to the balance 1250 shops. Our man
wrote a reply in the margin that pigeons were roosting in the remaining
shops! Our man’s boss saw the reply and developed cold feet while lending
signature to the flippant reply. He then forced the officer to erase the
comments using the white fluid and write a more “serious “ reply. This was
duly done. When the note went to the G.M. he saw the use of the white
fluid and asked for the desk officer. He asked him what had been there
which was erased . The reply he gave was :“pigeons, sir”. When asked
what the white fluid was for he replied with a smirk: “These are the
droppings , sir.”
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