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Who am I?
Posted by Padma
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12:04 AM
Year: 2001
Time: 9:00 am
Place: A small company in Hyderabad
I walked into the office and as
usual I am the first person to enter. I went and settled at my desk. I pulled
out my planner and checked the schedule for the day. It was quiet hectic and I
had to fix lot of appointments and redirect a lot of calls for my boss. Yes
that was my job as front office assistant. It was the job that helped me pay my
rent, groceries and transport. I did it with utmost sincerity and perfection. I
made good friends at work and it was all going fine.
One day I was at my routine
job and my boss had a visitor. This gentleman looked old and seems to be in some
urgency. Every 5 mins he would ask if he can go inside. But I asked him to wait
as my boss was with another visitor. This guy became impatient, rudely banged
at my desk and said. “You are hopeless and can get you out of job immediately.
You don’t know who am I?”
I was surprised. I was just doing
my job and did not find any reason why he has to get mad at me. I still
insisted him to wait. Anyway later he met my boss and then walked away giving me a
nasty look. Frankly, as long as he
was inside I had a strange insecure feeling. I was just out of college and
clearly not familiar with this kind of attitude.
Today I came a long way in my
career and still I see this attitude in a lot of them. What drives this feeling, “You don’t know who
am I”, is it being rich by a few fat bucks or being in powerful position? why can't they understand dignity of labor and respect people for the work they do? Initially
I used to hate such people. But now I don’t, because from my experience I
learnt that nobody has control on anybody’s life unless we allow them to do so.
Yes, we might face a few difficulties but if we strongly stand then nothing can
ruin us.
Today if someone says, “You don’t know who am I and what can I do?” I
simply smile and reply, “Sorry, I have no interest in knowing about you”
Simple rule: Ignoring such attitude and not carrying trash in my
brain made my life simple and happy.
//Padma
