Working with TT systems was always a fun for me. Everyday you get to see so many variety of people, so many things to observe and laugh at.
One such incident confronted me last week. She was a manager in TT systems. A typical north indian, whom you could see hopping around from one meeting room to another, with a laptop hugged to her bossom. A very frail, lean figure but with an air of arrogance( of course, did n't i say she is a manager?). One could always hear her shouting at one or the another team mate, hurling insults for not being competent enough!
So it happened we left for the day in our company bus, on our arduous jounrey to Sanghvi/Aundh. There was a drunkard, on the road, driving a bike. He was swaying from one side to another, in a typical Rakhi Sawant Jhatka type. Our bus driver being a skilled professional for quite some time, saved his life. So was he saved by the car coming from back, second time.
But our dear manager did not save him for the third time! She had an head on collision with this drunkard's bike with her car. He was lying on the road badly hurt, with a pool of blood around. People as usual, crowded around. Gheroed the manager, who by now was very tense and shit scared, with cheek and nose almost turning pinkish-red. I could see the whole drama being enacted, from the bus window. Our bus stopped.
Two of our over enthusiastic colleagues, Mr.X and Mr.Y alighted from the bus to help our manager. By now the crowd multiplied in numbers. There were talks of calling the police, ambulance, settlement... Mr. X and Mr Y entered the scene, bringing in lot of passion, for helping our dear little manager. Since settling indian-road-accident-disputes is not a quick fix thing, the bus memebers decided to leave, leaving Mr.X and Mr.Y at the accident site.
Settling the things took hell lot of time. It took almost an hour or two for the duo to help the manager out of this mess gracefully. And the issue was settled for some meager amount. Thanks to the duo, otherwise the manger would had to pay through her nose! So every thing said and done! Now it was time to part ways.
And here comes the hilarious part. The manager quipped, " I stay near by only. I have almost reached. See you tomorrow!"
The duo, stared at each other with a puzzled, helpless look. And then they enquired rikshawaala to drop them till Sanghvi, but the little bastard opened his mouth little too much. He said it would at least cost them 300 bucks with half return that amounts to 450 odd bucks. geeeeee.
So they boarded a PMT bus, and some how reached near by place. Ringed me and i dropped them to their homes.
So moral of the story: Beware of managers, and more so of female managers!
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Academic studies or the so called 'education' does not teach a person courtesy and manners, my friend!
Well said, I agree with you. People are at most "qualified" but it does not mean they are "educated". They get degrees of MBA's and what not but, not knowledge. There is a difference, and it makes all the difference.
As my college professor Mr.Rane quoted in Marathi at the last day of BE curriculum "aaj paryant tumhi parikshaarthi hotay, udya paasna tumhi kharay arthanay vidyaarthi bananaar"
lets see what trouble this female manager would have been into if there would have been a police case
1) A case of careless driving would have been registered
2) that would call for arrest, which would mean - police custody till the bail is recived.It was evening time, so bail would have been in morning, if lucky maybe at night
3) Medical tests required to check whether, person driving car had consumed alcohol
4) court cases, court dates, which would go on for days,
5) this means that whenver there is a court date , it cant be missed
6) It would also mean cancelling business trips abroad.
7) It would mean a hit to the career and to the project of course
8) Car would be confiscated by Police, to conduct investigation
9) Lat but not least; damages paid to the person who was hit and under the table cost which may go to the police
Here tensions to the manager and his/her family are not considered.
Dear Maverick!
Thank you for showing me the other side of the picture.
That is my whole point. Since she was saved from the above listed 9 problems, she should have been more courteous to the good samaritans!
How much does it take to say "thank you"?
And how much does it take to help them reach their homes safely? given that you were saved from so much trouble?
And let it be don't offer any help, at least offer words of help!
Even that would have been encouraging to Mr.X and Mr.Y. Otherwise ppl would stop helping each other in messy situations
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