My boss… if u see him first thing that comes to your mind is well groomed rhino. But I calling him rhino would be an insult to living things who have anything linked to emotions. I am not saying he is insensitive cause he senses all the opportunities to bash you just fine. He is also good at sensing the opportunity to eat into credit of your work. Like they say I was a genius, but this boss ruined me. When I came to this work I was all charged up and geared up to conquer the world. So I came I saw and I refused to move.

Conquered, I did. But that came out to be this credit stealer’s triumph in front of the who is who of the organization. And look at his guts instead of praising the good work he started ridiculing my efforts. He started comparing my other work parameters with employees in other region, other departments, in other organizations and eventually on other planets (he thought it was funny).

After that instance I refused to work and went on an informal strike, where it would seem like I am working to the whole world but I would not be putting in quality effort. It started reflecting on my numbers, oh by the way I am a sales guy for one of the global banks and my life moves around these psychopathic numbers which someone sitting in some other part of the world decided for me. So I do nothing more than a number, I am as good as my numbers and may be I am a number for someone sitting on the first step of this ladder.

Now my bad number will also mean a bad luck for this rhino so one day he decides to give me a gyan. But may be I got on his nerve by being a sympathetic listener and he went on telling me that he did not care (actually he need not have told me, I just knew it too well) how I met my numbers. He said do whatever but get me those numbers. and than he defined that whatever.

But everything was still ok, my strike was going on and I was still able to put up a good face infront of him and counterparts, till last week when I got to know that one of the deals that I had cracked for him got nominated for the best deal continent award by this global bank. And I was never informed about him.

It makes me think that is it just him or is it embedded in this organizational culture that until you are at certain level u will never be heard. Until you do good perception management for your super bosses u will never get credit. Until you do something that u would not like to do as an ethical person you wont climb the steps of that ladder.

But now the things are ok I am on my way out of this global. But are they really ok, coz I am moving to some other MNC bank and who knows I just find another rhino waiting for me.