Some people are quite a natural at taking dig at others. I have learnt to take it in my stride. One particular cousin of mine always points out that I have stuck to my organization pretty long (almost 5 years). He mocks at me asking if I am going to retire from this organization when I am 60 or are they are going to ask me to leave themselves.
Ok I know its pretty chilled out in my organization, there are no strict timings. I love the place, I enjoy my work, my work has been recognized, my compensation have definitely been based on merit and at the end of the day gives me a perfect work like personal life balance. They gave me 6.5 months of maternity leave without the loss of a job and what more could anyone want. I want all that at this point in life and bloody hell that’s all that I want. I am not competing with my college peers to the numbers in the pay cheques or how often they fly and what fancy designations they have got. To me what’s important is how much time I get to spend time with Rahul and also give work to my grey cells compromising neither at the end of day. And this job does it so perfectly for me. What’s anybody’s problem I say?
These people think they have got it very cleverly planned. I mean you say all these things and when one gets defensive all that you say is”hey it was fun relax”. They either want to prove you are not good enough to get into another organization which would pay me a couple of lakhs more but ensure that I park my ass in office for at least 12 hours or they want to hint that the organization I work for isn’t good enough (not in their radar). I mean they will try only for top notch IB’s (which will probably declare bankruptcy and use all tax payers money). But I am quite tired of trying to explain myself to such people. These people don’t have interesting conversations to carry on in a gathering. They are so very conscious of themselves and their shortcoming so they want to ensure that the focus is never on them but on others. Sad don’t u think!!!!
