A friend who works in a corporate job narrated this incident which happened in his company. This incident helps us understand how promotions and recognitions work in the corporate sector.
In his own words:
“we had a meeting of all the employees in our department. The meeting starts and the boss starts shouting at some employees with allegations of inefficiency and not running certain events properly. In a few minutes, some 3-4 employees who are smart and self aware clearly pointed out the shortcomings of the boss and how the boss’s wrong decisions and indecision led to the chaos. Most of the employees joined the voice. The boss was almost cornered and didn’t know how to defend. Out of nowhere one employee requested humbly that she wants to make one small point. Let’s call this person X. What started seemingly like a support to all the employees, within a few sentences flipped and the attack was on the fellow employees and in defence of the boss. We didn’t even realise when she flipped the sides!”
“This X then continued saying, we are all putting the blame on the boss. But have we introspected how we employees are also responsible for all this chaos? As a part of the institution, we should also take responsibility for this problem and work together. There were other “bucket” employees who jumped to support her and the meeting ended!”
Amidst all this, one more employee C told the other, “just wait and see, this S will surely be rewarded with some position soon. Some reward for sure”
“what reward? Nothing exists here!” Said another employee.
6 months later, one important position below the boss went vacant because the person in that position took a medical leave. The top management waited for a month and put X to that position. The prediction of C turned out true!
But that important position has been made dummy now. The one who was in that position earlier was somehow having little spine to speak. The new one X doesn’t speak anything and shuts up!
