miPratik

With your professional wardrobe, you wear one more thing daily in your office. The Mask ( not face mask ). It's YOU which neither you want to be nor you could be. But wearing it, you pretend to be, what you are not actually. For me, it's a lie which is not only acceptable in corporate but rather is expected one. Sometimes a person after some limit could not lie and that's why wearing this 'mask' is suggested. What exactly am I talking about? That is professional etiquette. People are used to with the 'wrapper' than the product inside. People prefers 'brand' over usability. It is like that only. You know you are lying but under the so called great title of 'professional etiquette'. And I call it 'the mask'. When you just come out of your school, you are trained with dressings and the other certain skills, soft skills. But nowhere you know how corporate life actually works. Rest of the time, you 'buy' your wa...

PC: Oleg Magni pexels.com & zoho.com Today morning, I saw an e-mail in my inbox with a thank you note and attached with a resume. Yesterday after office, I went to a nearby mall for some shopping. As I was there for very few things which would take me very little time, I did not bother to remove my ID card and continued my shopping wearing it. As this particular mall is in closest vicinity of my office, many IT employees from other companies usually walk into . Surprisingly, one person came to me. He saw my ID in parking and was little hesitant about whether to approach me or not. As he saw me in mall again, he thought to give a chance and approached me. He mention all this and I just listened thinking, why? Without delay, he introduced himself, all about his name, company, designation, experience, etc. He sounded so polite and decent; so, I thought to give some time to listen him completely. As he completed, he was waiting for my response and I made i...