Our company is shifting to Pune this month end. There had been a lot of rumours flying around for the last 2 months or so about the move to Pune and how it is inevitable. But there was also a lot of secrecy, lot of hush hush so that no one was clear as to what was going to happen. I was only privy to the information that AS had been dispatched to Pune to scout for office space and that he had shortlisted some 2 or 3 of them. But apart from that, I had nothing going for me. If you are familiar with change management program, the first thing that they would tell you is that the vision has to be communicated to all the stakeholders and that each and every employee is a stakeholder. But here the vision was lost. No one knew why the move has to be done. It sounded more and more whimsical. The next step in the change management program lies in the initiatives taken to involve all the employees, to win over the cynics and to fire up the enthusiastic volunteers. But here the only decision that every one had to take was how soon can that person join the Pune office. The next stage in change management program is to monitor the initiatives, to help teams overcome obstacles. At this stage, every success is celebrated and employees are coerced to share the same vision. Right now, the office space has been taken up, 2 teams have moved there and forget celebrations, there is a full fledged war ongoing to kick out some employees, to make things so hard for them that they themselves choose to part ways. The last step in successful change management program is to maintain the vision and to keep on facilitating the various initiatives. Well, for sure, this company doesn't follow the normal processes. As long as AS and AK are there to poison AW's mind, as long as these fools keep on fooling everyone to believe that they are focusing on jobs when they spend all the time on online games and of course in ogling the girls, as long as these fools keep on pushing out good people so that their own inefficiencies and incompetency are not highlighted, this company is going nowhere. So it really doesn't matter :-)
I don't really subscribe to the prevailing sentiment that AW is totally oblivious of the misdemeanours of these fools, that AW himself encourages them to behave in such manner because he wants to create a company in his own image. I really feel that AW is aware of all the hanky panky going on in the company and that he sometimes takes these fools to task also, but he doesn't let them go because these fools serve him as personal valets also and no one wants to lose their servants for their follies, so these fools live another day. From the past few day, I quote some events ---
1) AS was entering office when AW called out to him "arre donkey, idhar aa", leading to a lot of mirth all around
2) Someone complained to AW that AS was actually sleeping during night shifts and AW called AS names which are unprintable here :-)
3) AW gave a dressing down to AS when he overheard him speaking to a new woman employee.
4) AW had stopped AS from going to office for the past 15 days or so and these days were spent in great peace by everyone over here.
5) Even AK was not spared. He has been forbidden from playing out songs loudly from his system. I was sick and tired of listening to Justin Bieber's girlie song "baby baby baby o".
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