Boss!!! Beware…

 

As the Covid lockdown is getting relaxed slowly, in a phased manner, all of us have started the final countdown for the day when we would be joining back our respective workplaces. Some are eager to go back to work to run away from the forced loneliness, a few others have enjoyed the solitude and are dreading going back to the same old boss, who, they know, would waste no time in throwing his weight around to compensate for the lost time.

But a lot of sanitizer and liquid soap has flown down the city drains all these 8 weeks and one has to quickly reassess and readjust to the new normal. If you are the boss in the office, and a bossy one at that, be aware that 8-weeks of confinement has made people emotionally strong. Know that people have learnt new skills and have equipped themselves with higher marketability quotient. So, if you are the Boss – Beware!!!

Many of us have realized the true value of life. We have learnt to live a minimalist existence. And, we have learnt that there is much more to life than one singular aspiration of a vertical career growth. We have learnt to recognize the other varied opportunities that the nature offers beyond the limited confines of a career organization construct. So, if you are the Boss – Beware!!!

We have learnt that we could live without going to posh restaurants every weekend. We have realized that guzzling drinks with friends every weekend is not the only way to enjoy life. And we have reckoned that it doesn’t necessarily require to go to a deaddiction counselor to stop smoking. And, therefore, we know that a strong compulsive willpower can do wonders to our lifestyles. This time it was forced by nature but we know we could similarly force our nature.  We see through this chicken and egg story. We have learnt to differentiate between the necessities and the luxuries. And, we have found new pleasures in hitherto unexplored subtleties of life. So, if you are the Boss – Beware!!!

The Bosses too, I hope, would have realized the realities of life, albeit the harsh way. They would have realized that no CMMi principle could continuously shrink the time taken for household chores. That no Lean principle could continuously identify and cut-down the waste from the cooking time. And looking around, they would have realized that there is much more to offer as a service and a lot more to achieve in business than just a burgeoning balance sheet. So, if you are the Boss – Be more aware.

I read in a Whatsapp forward that the average mass of a virus is typically 0.85 atto-gram or 0.85 x 10 to power minus 18 grams – and so would be that of the Corona virus as well. And that it requires some 70 million viruses to make a person sick, which makes it to 0.0000005 grams. And given that some 3 million cases of Covid patients have been reported worldwide, we are talking about a total 1.5-gram weight of the rogue viruses around the globe.

So, if a mere 1.5 grams of virus has the potential to bring down the entire world to its knees, there is no space for bosses throwing around their weights on their subordinates who are merely a couple of notches below them in the hierarchy. So, if you are the Boss – Beware!!! Don’t just throw your weight around. For, Covid has now taken weight out of the equation.