Your Friendly Philosopher & Guide

Dedicated to all those energetic aspirants who are yet to take the plunge into the corporate arena.
These are my personal experiences after working for 2-3 corporates. Any resemblance to anyone or any organization is unintentional and merely coincidental.

Three Non-Buddhist way of training your mind to survive in the Corporate Culture

Learn to say YES, even when you mean NO!
You are recruited for your attitude and not for your aptitude. Think positive, be positive and never say NO even if your superiors ask you put your pants down and do a cabaret. Saying no or telling something out of the box always would attract problems to the extent that your responsibility will be increased without promotion or salary hike – the most decent way of asking you to leave.

Learn to appreciate all Tom, Dick and Dickheads
Opinions, views and ideas will rush from every quarters of the system. Just try to appreciate all of them, even if you know they are the sickest or the dumbest idea anyone could think of. Remember people love to be appreciated or I should say even an ass and a mule expect a pat on its back once in a while.

Keep smiling like a chimp
Corporate offices are the best places for anyone to practice Bodhi Dharma. If possible keep a smiling face, and try to nail the 2 ends of your lips. This will lead to a permanent curve that will straighten most of the things. People working with you neither are psychics nor do you carry a LCD screen near your chest that tells about what exactly you think, speak and mean. You can surely abuse your boss from inside, and still give him a royal treatment from outside.