Punctuality !!

Punctuality is a major problem in our India, we all have been trying hard to be punctual

For so many years but the problem is not evaporating and approaching more towards an impossible situation day by day.

Boss is angry from his employee for late coming, wife at home is angry from his husband for reaching home late, commuters/visitors are irritated from unregulated delayed trips of their flights and trains, even flyovers in metros are fuming because of their late completion and further delayed inauguration by our respective leaders.

Be it a school or office, airport or railways everybody in India tries his best to make his day as per plans but fails tremendously

Today my boss called me in the morning, I thought it would be a usual discussion of status update or what r u doing or something like that but it was not that, no it was not something unofficial or personal too.

Abhishek…. He shouted, in same tone which I use to call Bahadur (security guard) to open the door in the morning

Yes sir…coming.....I said, closing my personal mails and trying to show some urgent work in hand.

As I reached him, I wished him Morning sir in a best possible official tone.

To which he dint replied.

Hi…I said to nagendra who was already in discussion with him sitting nearby on a table cum drawer.

As I reached he closed the discussion saying some concluding statements with him and nagendra left in a jiffy.

I sat on the same table like a patient beside him who is visiting his doctor, I was feeling like doing Aaaa sound for allowing him to peep into my throat with his torch.

But it was not a hospital it was my office and I was sitting near to my boss.

He did something in his computer and turned it’s monitor towards me so that I can get a clearer view of what he is trying to show me.

I also peeped into his monitor expecting as if he is going to show me my performance graph and award me some early appraisal

Look Abhishek…this is your data showing your daily punch-in time and out time in office.

He said this and turned his horse-like face to me.

It is observed that you are coming late daily to office even till 11, Look.. and he pointed out to the sheet scrolling down, which had my in-time and out-time details and late entries marked with red.

I went through it and found the whole sheet red, In first look it gave me feel of a beautiful love letter written by some hard core lover to her girl friend on valentine’s day with it’s red n white combinations and my recent valentine celebration reminiscences.

Even after repeated reminders why r u coming late abhishek?? Even as u knw that how strict this organization is in terms of punctuality.

Silence…

I just kept my eyes fixed on monitor trying to find out any entry which could luckily be green, but pretended to be in such a shocked condition as if the data sheet is not mine or there is some system error,

But all in vain..

Sir, actually…there’s a huge jam on my way to office…

So what…stopping me from repeating this excuse for the nth time,

What is the solution to that..???

Again asking this solution from me for the nth time..

I kept quite, feeling of asking for solution to PWD or NHAI for jams!!

We all face jams, but manage to come on time daily…

At what time you start from your home by the way..

8:30…I said

....

Sanjay...boss shouted!!

At what time your start from your home??

7 10 sir…Sanjay(sitting at a distant seat) replied spontaneously like a jhamura of some madari

Look…he starts at 7 10 and make it to office by 9’o clock

Do you understand??

But sir… he has to catch a train from faridabad and trains don’t find jams on their way..

I replied with exhausted tone.

Boss kept silent and jhamura kept smiling for a while.

In case if you don’t regulate your in-time from tomorrow, you will have to apply for a half day leave whenever you come late to office as per the rules of the organization.

Okay..!! I said and left his cubicle

Rahul..

Boss shouted and called him for the same rounds of arguments I suppose, coz he also comes from the same locality as that of mine and he’s also not among who are able to make it on time somehow.

I came back to my seat and started doing some work to keep myself busy enough to not think of his peculiar arguments but I failed and his unanswered question for solution of jams and all kept hovering in my mind till I wrote this blog.

Why bosses are like this? I asked myself. I used to think that making wives fully happy with you is tough but making your boss happy with you is toughest, you can’t even gift them anything so that they let you at liberty for a while from their grilling n drilling.

Why they are not only concerned with the work, why they don’t see that I am not even leaving office at dot 1730.Why they cant understand the fact that how one can take a margin of 3 hours for just a 20 km drive.

I hope some day he reads all this and find some solution to the unanswered questions...........