The Good, The Bad and The Corporate

I have often heard that, people don’t come in Black and White; they are always in the shades of grey. Confused? Let me explain. Like the old good Hindi movies, there is no absolute goodwill hero or absolute evil villain. Everyone belong in between, the scale which connects the absolute good and pure evil. But that’s something you already know, don’t you? Of course you do, because at times we behave good and bit evil as well. And this evil doesn’t mean being a bad person, it just means “Not waiting for the signal to turn green”, or “Throwing the garbage on the road” (Cause there was no dustbin around, so lame reason, Lol). My point being, everybody is bad sometime and vice a versa.

So that covers the good and the bad, but what’s the corporate ha? Now these are the strangest but the smartest people on the earth (at least they think so,Lol). So being in corporate life for almost two years, I observed many people. People of my age, little bit seniors and highly seniors as well. And I can tell there is a trend in their behavior. Many of them would deny this fact, cause they would say that they are different, but eventually they are the same.

Like I mentioned in the beginning, in life, we always know if we are doing something right and wrong. And the only thing we care, while doing wrong, is that we don’t get caught. Right? But in corporate it’s a complete different level. The people doing wrong don’t hesitate doing it, rather they are proud of it, and over the top they have a plan to justify it. Confused? Let me tell a short story.

Once upon a time there was a school, whose Principal was a good man. And then he got retired. Now, his successor wasn’t that great of a leader but because of seniority, he got the post. As he was incapable of handling school, over a time, he started losing grip of the things happening around, as a result the teachers got lazy, politics started, and the main principle of the school, i.e., Education, got left behind. Slowly performance of the students started to decline, as a result, the school started to get bad mouth publicity. And eventually, the number of students enrolling started to decline. After a while the school got shut down, as there were no new students. So whose fault it was?

Now as the story I explained, you can tell that it was the New Principal, who was at fault. But if all the participants of the story were corporate, you might find a new answer. Cause The Principal would blame that the teachers were not as good as it were at the time of his predecessor. The teachers would blame the students, and the students would have no idea what the hell was happening. Getting little bit idea?

So basically the reason behind this post was, if you ever find yourself tangled in the chain of corporate, don’t waste your time. Get yourself out, and find a place where The Good is appreciated, The Bad is eliminated the moment it arises and The Corporate is kicked out the instant it appears.