CORPORATE LIFE - People

So I’ve already had a post on what I learnt from 6 months of corporate life. They were more of observations than any good guidelines. Considering the fact, that I’m nearing a year into “office life” and also, that rarely do I get the urge to blog now - owing to the slow decomposition of my remaining brain cells – I have decided to come up with this post. The original plan is to provide a “things to do” that is conventionally not given out in the Corporate Handbook.

But first another piece of observation. There are broad categories into which the people at work can be classified into:

1. SMILE acquaintances: People you have never met but you just end up smiling to, holding the door for or saying an occasional “hi” to when you pass by. These people are generally not even in your service line. You just happened to smile at them one day and now you just have to keep it up!

2. WORK acquaintances: Yes, I agree. All the people around are at the same work place as you are. But there is a general category of people who you can specifically call “WORK acquaintance”. Those under this category are the people on your floor/service line/ Line of Business (whatever you call it) but not directly related to you. You have been introduced to them but you never really had to interact with them. He/she just happened to be a friend of your “PROJECT/TECHNOLOGY acquaintance”.

3. PROJECT/TECHNOLOGY acquaintance : These people are your direct point of contact for anything and everything related to work. You may or may not to choose to hang out with them outside office hours. But during office hours they are your closest “friends”. Usuall, more out of helplessness than choice.

4. WALKOVER acquaintance: Your bored. Your fed up and you just want to quit! That’s when these people come handy. These are the people you can just walk over to….chit chat for a while..have a few laughs with and return to your seat.

5. WHO-THE-HELL acquaintances : Never seen them before and you’d think that every single time you see them,UNLESS you end up smiling at them or vice versa. But you get the point…

6. POC acquaintances : In a world with loads of skill distributed in a completely erratic and illogical manner you are SURE to be the Point of Contact for something. Even if it is “the guy with an extra pen”. So these are the people who keep coming back to you for the reasons you “excel”.

7. WORK-AND-OUT acquaintances : Your buddies at work. These people are the ones you would choose to hang out with inside OR outside at work. If you were living in a sane world with no cubicles, no bores (a noun implying a person) and no work – these are the people you’d call - friends.

P.S : The various categories listed are not purely exhaustive. I'm guessing it covers up a large part of the people around and on most cases the categories overlap a lott!!

DISCLAIMER : These are opinions and categorisations of the author and not to be officially recounted

Well, guess this post turned out longer than I thought. Well I’m saving up the “guidelines” for another day in that case..

Adios
Shanker