DONKEYS are collectively an essential driving force of many organizations in the country. Sounds like a preposterous comment? The idea is neither to insult the donkeys or the organizations, but to comment on the phenomenon that has quietly crept into our corporate system. The donkeys I am referring to are human in structure, but have key personality traits which are found in donkeys (or asses, if you choose to call them that). Hence, going by cerebral nexus, they are closer to donkeys than to humans. In any case, one should be deceived by looks alone (such as cases where vixens are confused with ladies).
Now, the donkeys that I am talking about are handy commodities for any institutions. When they are assigned a job, they obediently respond and without asking any questions, set about doing their task. They work head down, from 9am till the time they literally ‘drop dead’ everyday. Hard work is their forte, and not much else. Since they are donkeys by character, they are known to possess either the least of expectations, specially of any immediate monetary reward, or have a wealth of patience to wait for these remunerations. This realization is not lost on the organization and they make full use of the donkeys since such cheap bonded labour is hard to find elsewhere.
However, these donkeys have one common trait running across the whole community. They believe that since they have worked so untiringly, outperforming others, they have earned great management respect. They harbour the illusion that the management is deeply impressed and has higher things in store for them in the long run. For this precise false thinking and nothing more, these livings forms should be called donkeys. The secret is that the management has beaten them in the competition of the discovery of their race. Self-awakening in any way is usually hard to come by. The management, therefore, does not believe in elevating the donkeys as they are aware of their innate capacity to survive on low sustenance.
The question that might bother some of us is that being a donkey means being a paragon of dumbness. Then how come they are able to do so much complex work. Well, their dumbness is not related to performance, but based on the fact that they fail to realize that: a) consistent hard work is the surest way to let the bosses decipher your race; b) moving up the ladder requires things other than hard work.
These donkeys need to redefine their role in society or at least in the organization. The biggest problem is self-realization. Therefore, I suggest that every employee should take stock and establish whether he is a donkey or otherwise. Certain measures can then be adopted to de-donkey oneself at his/her convenience (mind you, it is much difficult than detoxicating). First of all, one should be prepared to accept the bitter reality and should not feel any shame if the end result labels one as a donkey. After all, you would be discovering something which has been common knowledge for the management for many years. The following are some simple steps of a self-administered test (aptly called the Road to Self Discovery or RSD) that can lead to the classification of corporate employees into humans and donkeys. For classification such as owls, grasshoppers and butterflies, readers should await future articles in this genre.
THE R.S.D. TEST
• You regularly forget to call your wife even once in a day due to work pressure.
• You are expecting a promotion/new company-maintained car in the next six months, for the last five years.
• You are the only one who has not taken a vacation this year.
• In the morning, you keep the newspaper aside, thinking that first some work on the desk should be disposed of. The peon eventually collects 30 unread newspapers at the end of the month from your desk.
• Each evening, you have to return the wish ‘see you tomorrow’ uttered by every single staff member to you.
• You become a routine OW carrier to your home. OW stands for office work and not a sexual disease.
• Every odd year, your eyesight sheds a digit and your headache refuses to leave you in peace.
• Your promotion and privileges are denied on the basis of some clerical objections.
If the answer to all the five points above are ‘yes’ then the diagnosis is that you are a donkey without being aware of this somewhat humiliating reality.
The following steps are advisable: Focus your concentration on the social activities of the organization or to put it bluntly, of your top bosses. Intrude in seminars attended by your bosses, followed by parties attended by your superiors. More appropriate are those prestigious balls. Booking tables in those balls is highly recommended and is a proven way to succeed professionally.
Socializing and being perceived as a social animal is the key to corporate success in the land of the pure.
Play the game of the management. You must find the donkey-like subordinates in your midst who should be bucked up and encouraged to take up additional work and responsibility. He will serve as your proxy. Hand this article to him once he is transferred and no longer working for you. Finally, you will find that activities outside the office pay greater dividends. This is the key area that was being neglected before. If you are awarded your promotion in the next six months, it means that you are an improved race now. Occasional re-reading of this article is recommended.
DONKEYS are collectively an essential driving force of many organizations in the country. Sounds like a preposterous comment? The idea is neither to insult the donkeys or the organizations, but to comment on the phenomenon that has quietly crept into our corporate system. The donkeys I am referring to are human in structure, but have key personality traits which are found in donkeys (or asses, if you choose to call them that). Hence, going by cerebral nexus, they are closer to donkeys than to humans. In any case, one should be deceived by looks alone (such as cases where vixens are confused with ladies).
