The recent incident on a railway division where
a senior officer was found threatening the subordinate for contributing towards
the marriage gift of the daughter of boss of the senior was nauseating to say
the least, yet none in the officer community was surprised.
An organization steeped deep in unethical
practices cannot be expected to be jolted by such a minor incident that otherwise
took the nation by surprise and also pricked the conscience of many who have
not yet crossed the line between honesty and theft.
I am reminded of an order by one
of my ex-bosses who subsequently rose, if one calls it rise, to become the head
of the nation’s largest monolith. The boss was brazen enough to verbally order
for departmental get together dinner and booze parties to be organized at the
expense of some hapless contractor every month. And as expected I failed to
comply and landed into many subsequent soups at the hands of the boss who rose
to the top, in rank, expertise in brazen loot and lowly acts of personal
conduct. Yet no eyebrows were raised, when the boss issued his brazen order or
when I was busy paying the price for my misconduct of brazen defiance of unethical
orders.
Yet the latest incident is indeed
beyond justification. How can senior officers be so brazen so as to threaten
their juniors into submission merely for collecting an extremely high value
marriage gift. That the junior by not succumbing to unethical pressure tactics
rose a few notches in my eyes, notwithstanding, the conduct of the bosses is indeed extremely uncalled for, despite reflecting a true picture
of the deeply prevalent rot in the society.
Excessive bent towards providing
protocol to the senior servants of the government also saddens me. Why this
bent towards something so immaterial and that too at the cost of delivery per
se hurts me to the core. And that too when all these peripheral trappings are
bound to vanish in thin air as soon as one crosses sixty. Yet people do not
understand and the rot continues.
And the same with giving bouquets
and opening the door of the car, not as a token of respect but just to please superiors
for petty personal gains.
Sometime back I had taken a drive
against plaques that were installed only to carve in stone for posterity the name
of the blokes who did the honors while laying the foundation stone or during
the commissioning of the facility that should have been there in normal course.
Yet I must give credit to these blokes for so far their names have not appeared
on plaques next to taps, cisterns and commodes.
When is all this going to end,
especially in the biggest corporate on the globe and till that happens, all our
dreams shall remain in air? Tragic is’nt it and also sad that we are giving up
on an organization just to satiate the ego of a few who but for the same could
make a difference if only they desired.
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