Shifting approaches

Times have changed.

This is the case the world over. People have become more enlightened and they are no more interested in mere words. They want results.

This is more so with regard to the services rendered by the public offices. They are being closely monitored by the general public and the public has become proactive rather than reactive to the workings of the government. There is more awareness about its various arms. The public seems to have developed the habit of questioning corrupt practices and bringing them to light.

This is a good thing and a very welcome thing too!

People are no more befuddled about the mysterious government it seems! The fear has gone out of their system. This has had a healthy reaction among certain functionaries of the government. It is more evident among the service organizations than anywhere else. They have discarded the old world notions about their “rights” and have become oriented on doing the right thing.

They have changed with times. There is little brute force involved in dealing with tricky situations in most cases. There could be isolated incidents that are otherwise. But these are comparatively rare and insignificant.

It heartening to know that things are changing in them and reason prevails rather than blind commitment to their ranks and the individual demands that they make. All have realized that we can stand together or we can fall together.

My recent interaction with them on an official level has brought this subtle change to my notice. There seems to be sensible people in the helm who are willing to listen to the problems that officers are facing and even consider working together for the betterment of the set up.
Let us hope that this trend would continue!

Let them dig thier own graves

There could be any number of ways in which you can deal with a problem. But this only if there is enough reason around to go by!

If you come across irrational behavior the best course is to allow it to run its course and let those with such an attitude reap the dividends of their actions!

I can only laugh at the state of mind of some of the poor guys I have to deal with. They have landed themselves in big trouble by certain of their actions. I tried to make them come out of their shells and help them see the light of day. But they would have none of that! They are like children and unfortunately they are being controlled by some vested interests that have their own axes to grind.

It is not to be wondered at. When emotions rule, you just can’t get your mind in order. The controller of these guys had his share of troubles in the past.

The recent events after the threat have made me see their minds at work. The poor mechanisms have a lot to improve.

Can you reason with an unthinking robot programmed to do certain things? Well if you can, let me be your student for I can’t do that.

Once people fall into a certain type of frame of mind they won’t be able to reverse them and function normally. I am saying this fully knowing that those who have threatened me have a very poor grasp of things that they are dealing with. They might still become directed against me even if they were left alone by me. They might still try to harm my family.

It seems they are totally powerless and are wholly controlled by their passion and their submissiveness by others.

But I have things to run and duties to perform. So I have decided to hand the troubles over to those invisible powers over head who are normally more in a position to think clearly than those like me who is in the middle of the war field! So fully knowing that the imbeciles might turn against me at some future time, I am going to suggest a solution for their problems.

I am going to let them go. Yes I have been advised by others that if I do so, the idiots wouldn’t realize the good intentions on my part and would still go against me. I think I do have just enough sense to handle such things.

It may be true that those who control them might have some brains, but they still hast to work with these imperfect instruments. Other than the fear that these unthinking fools might take it into their head to attack me and my family (there is no use arguing with mules). The fact is that they are digging their own graves by their actions.

They would go under sooner or later! It’s certain to my mind. So if the guys don’t turn to murder and mayhem well I might just survive!

I shall be providing you with updates!

Who discovered doors for offices?

Phew, I am trembling, I am shaking to the innermost core, and I can’t stop shaking too- the matter is of no importance, I have been threatened- that too mortally.

Well if it was confined to me alone it would have been okay- not that I am the most courageous of guys, I am not, but at least it would have involved me alone. But this threat involves my poor family who had nothing to do with any of it. Now, no one can deny being affectionate towards ones family, okay we can act as if we don’t bother about them, but when it comes to brass- tacks, one’s own is one’s own, no amount of arguing would get us out of that one.

So here I am, unable to stop shaking, with no escape route in sight. The place I am in has a strange history too. People in my position have been attacked here previously……..

Is there such a place in the world in these times? Well there seems to be one at least….!

Oh I know, no one would be threatened by even the most callous of people without any cause. And viola! There is a cause. I called a guy back to duty because there was no one else to replace him. He was deputed for ‘other duty’ by me to make matters worse. My mistake in the first place, I should not have done such a thing at all!

He was angry of course (who can blame the poor fellow), he was building a new house of his own too and was probably wanted there. No, that was not the ‘other duty’ he was assigned, he was to assist in a survey. Well you know, sometimes we all do that too, we are human aren’t we? ‘No own house and all public office’ makes a guy dull. So all the guys in the world have to build their own houses in the course of their official duties!

Anyway in the course of the bustle of house building activity he seems to have forgotten to report back in the evening. Well that’s of little consequence too, who does such things these days, even the best of us does otherwise sometimes. It’s done mostly bona-fide, no harm intended. He would have reported to duty on the next day (probably). And I did not mind that.

Yet sadly I had the occasion to call the poor guy back for closing the office for the day. There was no one else to do that. He complained (he has every right to do that hasn’t he, who can deny that?). But I was without option, so I requested the guy to help me and I had worded it in the most polite of terms. He came and did what I asked.

Two days of preparatory time passed.

Then the union guys come.

And threatens me and the family, and they are dead serious about that. They name a place and ask me whether my family is staying there and they casually mention that there have been certain incidents in the office before.

I am frightened. You see, closing an office in time might even lead to ones and family’s detriment.

Shouldn’t I be shaking?

Back To Old Haunts

Okay, pictures are out, I have a dial up connection now. Even my browser barely loads. So what do I blog about from now on? I need to do it mostly in text. Subjects of course are galore. And I do have some hidden readers when I go totally on the attack on some of these. They like it I think, and no wonder, their sado-masochist tendencies are only too obvious.

So Should I revert back to my former subjects? Our poor perpetrators also seem to need something to do. They have been enjoying too much of a respite for some time. It would not do to keep them idle all the time. It seems an interesting idea.


My poor friend who is under severe electronic assault has been requesting me to let his plight known to the world for some considerable time now. But I was hoping that my inactivity would egg him on to write about them him. Well it’s a no go in his case anyway. He considers himself too ineffective as a word warrior. Which possibly mean that I am somewhat better equipped for it. The implied compliment is all right and I enjoy such things every now and then. But all the same its hard work reading up on the stuff and putting his jumbled words into some legible format.

Well, I can’t really complain as I want to help him and also bring the rising or prevalent evil of the silent influence into the open. This of course is a fact of life now. None seem to notice it and we are getting used to the slavery by and by. People are so submissive that they would take anything if it comes supported by the sanction of authority.

This has always made me wonder. An establishment that was put in place to serve the people has subtly somersaulted into repressive machinery.
But let us leave that alone and talk about the travails and tribulations of my poor friend. He has been working in an office were ineptness rules supreme. The ineptitude has become so gross that they were regularly making funds intended for the development projects lapse. Strangely this has gone un-noticed and now all efforts are concentrated upon teaching my poor friend a lesson because he sort of made it public.

More about it later…………………..