During my extended years of service and the compounded experience gained by me viz a viz Public Servants (read Government Servants), I have come across many such incidents, which can be compiled into an anthology of bureaucratic gaffes. However, the time is not as yet ripe to either disclose or publish them, as they can still adversely affect my career in the service.
But one of my recent experiences has been so pathetic that without naming the organization, I am compelled to share this with the viewers of my blog. The organization I am working for, is one of those run down bodies, which are manned by some people (read Officers) who remain stationed in the same organization throughout their tenures. With the passage of time the so called officers have developed such bloated egos & ethos that one has to experience them first hand to understand the apathy displayed by them, just to affirm their status as an Officer. The organization I am referring to occupies a block or part of a huge Institution, with adequate public facilities available all around the huge complex.
However, on the very first day that I joined this organization, I was duly informed of the placement & location of the said officer’s loo, being an officer having newly joined this elite club. The loo was placed adjacent to the room of the top ranking officer of the organization and it was the prerogative of the officers only to utilize its services. Having been duly informed of the norms in vogue, I too joined the bandwagon and arrived at the loo to relieve myself. But to my utter dismay, I had to beat a hasty retreat as soon as I entered this ‘hell hole’, because of the gut wrenching nauseating odour emanating from the most filthy & stained interiors. The other public utility, maintained in the complex, is barely ten yards from the hell hole and I immediately moved over to this facility and have thence been using it. However, all the officers who belong to the cadre are not only keen but also make it a point only to relieve themselves in this particular hell hole only, even if they have to wait for this in a queue. At times, I just ponder as to whether this practice has emanated from the fact that since the ‘Head of the Office’ puts in his efforts therein, that all the others ‘Officers’ have also follow suit/the leader or else is it that in order to establish the fact of being an ‘Officer’, that they have to use this facility only, despite all the odds one has to face to enter this ‘hell hole’.
Waiting from your lucid comments to enlighten me.
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