Dialing a number...
Its ringing...
My call is cut!
Have been noticing something for sometime now,its something that most of my friends have succumbed to and flaunt unabashed!
Call anyone today and they are always busy!!!Ask them what their plans are for the weekend and they are busy with work!!or planning the next weeks workload!!
Its like the whole of India is running on hyper drive!i really got thinking about this so called 'BUSY BEE SYNDROME' over a beer with my fiance and friends the other day when these guys started pulling each others legs about how early the other one got off work and how lazy and not focused they were to do so.Now i personally completely disagree with the whole I've put in 18 hours a days =I'm hardworking,successful and an over achiever, in fact i believe quite the polar opposite!
My funda is work hard!work fast!work efficiently!
Getting back to the point,Gen x seems to have created a new disorder to add to the never ending list that already exists!!Conversations like"I'll call you back am in a meeting","Working over time this week","Cant make it for the movie somethings come up at work!"are daily occurances in the vocabulary of Genx.
So why the devil is everyone pretending to be so freaking busy!!??!!
This Gatorade powered generation caught in a fast paced constantly changing world has created the impression that working longer means working harder.[And if you really don't have that much work you jolly well pretend you do!!]Getting off work early is associated with aimless less,lack of focus in ones career.Parents and society too are to blame for reiterating these perception.Movies,theater,ad commercials all showing the overworked individual as a successful professional makes one believe that this is the way to go.
The end result an over worked,over tired generation of youngsters with little or no social life,with work frustrations that build up often to t he point of exploding,nervous break downs and sorry to say a generation living in the shades of grey devoid of any colour in their lives!
3 comments:
Multi Tasking
We all love to pretend to be kings of multi tasking, i do so much in so less time etc etc...some how our personal lives has also become a part of our things to do list
Read:
Meeting
Launch prez
lunch with wife
budget meeting...
Should our career adjust to the life we already have or vice versa....
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Should career adjust your personal lives or vice versa? i honestly depending on individual priorities and whether people get more from their work or from spending quality time with loved one...
Never the less its increasingly becoming uncool to have time,one must be successful if he/she is always busy is the myth we all fall victim to
hello my dearie..
caught up with your blog after a long long time and i see you have gone quiet a few posts running :-) well somewhere when you wrote about the cut your call bit .. he thought of myself.. cuz thats wat i did.. but ya honestly yes a lotttt of people do wat u r saying.. pretend to behave like they have no time and eventually get caught in that rutt and lose their efficiency because they have so much time technically..
but sometimes really you might not have the option.. i used to really struggle geting out of office before 9 or 10 minimum.. not because i didnt want to.. because i couldn't and its a fact in advertising for client servicing peopleat our level.. the madam planners can take that liberty.. meaning no offence.. but ya thats how it is..
wen you have bosses who would leave at 5 to go and get their wedding preps done in october wen their wedding is in feb next year (a good 5 months) and wen your super boss does not know jack shit of watz happening .. you dnt have an option and then you get mails for the smallest of things you miss out that your appraisals are going to depend on the way you work and shit like that without realising that maybe work is happening in that team only because people at our level..
well just feel that atleast as far as advertising is concerned (wouldn't know about others) maybe a lot of times you dnt really have an option because of the circumstances and because you have a lot of fart gases sitting in the industry who are least interested in working but more interested in farting and dumping work on others..
JAI might just agree to that i feell.. :-)
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