Hi people, talking a lot
about things that revolve around me and my friends, I decided to talk something
so general in this post that would arouse everybody’s interest as not in the
case of previous posts. I thought I needed a break from all these routine
topics and so decided to take up a topic that majority of the people could easily
relate themselves with. Deciding to go conventional, I wanted to end my long
wish run by the form of this post. Yes, I was very keen in bringing it to your
attention of how professional the so called “CORPORATES” of Bangalore behave.
This post is purely
based on my observations for the past few days which desperately demanded this
kind of awareness amongst us so as to check if we are really that “CORPORATES”
and do we really deserve to be called one.
This post is an outcome of my true understandings
about the term “professional” that was dealt with during my college reign and please
do not take it too personal if at all this is going to hurt your conscience. As
the saying goes, “To Err is Human”, so do I and absolutely welcome any corrections
if at all anybody feel that I am wrong at any point in time.
“CORPORATES”-ARE
WE REALLY WORTH BEING CALLED SO?
The
college I was into was round the clock concentrating on students being so
professional to the college that would help them adapt easily to the
metamorphosis and so the then trend in the college developed in me a picture that
a professional corporate is one who is very formally dressed with their cuff
buttons on, who is clean shaved, who wears a decent buckled belt and wears
clean polished shoes. Having kept this picture in mind, I came to Bangalore
where my professional career started and found the very scenario contradicting
a lot of what my picture depicted and found the word “CORPORATES” to be a
trimmed form of the word “CORPORATION”. Yes, people here do behave like people who
work for corporations with least sincerity and austerity.
The
day for the locale corporate starts at 9 in the morning and that is when they
start getting themselves ready for the office. Getting dressed appropriately (would
be dealt with at a later part of the post) these guys step out of the house to
nearby bus stops. Once the bus comes to the bus bay, even without minding
others nearby, they start heading (running like they had seen a bus for the
first time in their lives) towards the bus’ entrance even stamping, pushing, and
pulling the neighbors in the bus stop. When
this is the case with the bus-goers, many a people choose car as a medium of
transit. This scenario would be the worst possible picture in the town and
would demand tear in your eyes. I tell you, the path would just be 2 feet wide
and still ten to fifteen cars would compete to get through first which would likely
cause a humungous traffic which causes the locomotives to be stagnant for
nearly an hour or even greater than that. Once I got struck in the traffic
where I waited for a couple of hours reason for which was this narrow path where
in everybody competed to go first. These Corporates are the largest
contributors of highly unpredictable traffic in the city which demands a highly
time conscious planning in case somebody goes out. I seriously do not
understand the fact that their 18+ years of education did not contribute even
the slightest of their common senses.
The
Dictionary definition of dressing goes so: “To put on enough clothes covering
oneself”. The term “enough” is often misinterpreted here. The dressing of
people would become decent enough when this term “Enough” goes objective rather
subjective. Anything you wear in Bangalore becomes trendy and fashionable and
no matter how much of dress you wear. Ladies in IT go westernized as far as
dressing is concerned. They dress themselves in all possible styles but the
amount of body parts left uncovered would always be 40%. Majority of girls’
dresses in Bangalore starts from the point of intersection of the line which
runs perpendicularly facing the ground for the next ten centimeters which many
a times would remind me of their poor parents who would never ever imagined
that their daughters would even think of wearing those. It is formals between
Monday and Thursday and casuals on Friday and this is how most of the companies
work. Even during the peak weekdays women here prefer wearing sleeveless, denim,
miniskirts and tight tees and Friday gets even more worsen. On Friday it is
like a holiday to their shame. At least 80% of the women here come half
exposed. The fact is that there are only a handful of people who come properly
and tidily dressed. But ad mist the BRIGHT, the DARK always dominates.
(Continues…….)
