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December 03, 2005
Your life is worth only 1 minute of silence or sometimes not even that – part 2!
Why do you think Indians were termed coolies by the British people? Simply because we loved to work really hard, and were always grateful at the peanuts that their thrown to us. Old habits die hard, and the situation still remains the same. The only difference being the foreigners don’t rule us anymore, it is our in-house Corporate now. I read somewhere recently that Japan has chosen to invest in India and not in China. Indians were really happy for the same. I had only one question on my mind. Why has India not developed so much so to choose between Japan and China to invest her money, when more or else all the 3 countries were at the same position economically after the 2nd World War?
Indians are driven by religious sentiments, and most of them go by what has been told in our scriptures. Unanimously we have misunderstood the funda or should I say have been to made to miss the crux completely. All have been trained from childhood that hard effort leads to success. That was the first polished peace of shit that was given to us. Study well and you will be successful – I am yet to see a class toper owning his enterprise. And the Karma word depicted in Geeta – which beautifully says “do your karma, and don’t expect the results” means something else, and not spending 12 hours at your office place.
Raj Yog astrologically means luck for prosperity and wealth. The more the Raj Yogas in a person’s chart, the more you will be successful in your life. Raj Yog is coined from Raja meaning King and Yoga meaning Luck. And what were the Kings doing in their lives? They always worked less, relaxed more, had enough sex and lived happily. Just notice the amount of work your VP (vice president) or CEO (chief executive officer) does. They usually give you long bhashan on how to put more effort and make the company profitable, but they themselves put very less effort. And mind it you can never find them at office after 6 pm!
Take Japan for instance - Japanese surely work hard, but then they never work beyond the stipulated time. The situation is the same with most of the other developed countries too. Hence for the development of any person or a company or a country people have to work less and smartly, than spending hours together at office place just because your boss wants to prove a point!
So what do you do if you are asked to be at office for an important meeting or an unimportant meeting at 8 pm? Just switch off your mobile phone and walk off home at 6 pm. Remember you need time for your family, your personal health, and also for the society. Be the first to rebel, and others will follow you.
Also if you ignore all the other things in life, and focus only on making your boss happy, even the Gods won’t bless you with prosperity! You will be stuck to the 15 per cent salary hike you get every year after all those long HR formalities!
Here is what I read a couple of years back –
It took place in UK on one fine Sunday. An employee had great lunch at home, and was having good afternoon sex with his wife. Just when he was about to orgasm, his phone rang. It was a call from his office boss asking him about the pending job! He sued the company for few million pounds, and he won the case too.
PS – For the people who misunderstood Part 1 of this particular blog series.
My aim was not to create a sympathy wave for Mr Anil it was to make you aware that you should not be the next Mr Anil in the queue!
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Corporate Chindigiris
Posted by Kenni at December 3, 2005 07:16 AM