Friday night at 7.45 PM when I came home and was talking to Swetha, I got a call. I could see that it was someone from my office. I hate to receive calls about work after office hours. But what can we do, its recession time and have to be in my limits. I picked up the call and below is the conversation.
I: Hello, Who is this?
Other Side: Hi Sudheendra, this is P*****.
It was my manager.
I: Yeah tell me P*****.
Next 10 minutes blah blah blah about work. You dont believe what he has asked to do. It was not my work nor it was so urgent nor it was something to do with me and still he asked me this.
Manager: Have you planned to work this weekend?
I was so angry on him. First thing how can he call me on my personal mobile at that time after office hours and ask me if I was planning to come to office on a weekend without any work from my side but to cover someone else's mistake and save their arse. I dont like anyone calling me on a weekend for any work related matters. What will they do for the whole week. Managers just want to cover the arse of their favorites.
I dont know what and why I am writing this, but I was frustrated and spoiled my whole weekend mood because of that.
1 comments:
That makes us 2 of us in the same boat. Just tells us that we can go through this emotion during different stages of the career, but for different reasons.
If you are a personality who cannot avoid visibility and limelight or if the team has too few hands, then I guess we get blessed with weekend work related calls.
Time to update the resume or choose between taking it with a grind of the teeth or a smile.
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