Wish we had ex-employees meets just like we have alumni meets. I would very much like to see how some of my old colleagues are doing, especially the ones from my first company.
I'm almost done with the 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist'. Very engaging for a monologue. Throughout the book, there is a tone of "I know you well but you don't know me" which sounds vaguely familiar. I'm curious about Pakistan somehow. For one thing, they don't go gaga over our great 'culture' that is the typical theme that others indulge in. To me that sounds so hollow and makes me cringe.
I've got a lady colleague of mine who is under the scanner for being irregular regularly. You give her something to do and you never know when it will get finished because she's just not in the office half the time. People obviously get upset but even my boss says he can't do anything because every time he decides to be tough with her, she bursts into tears and tells him about her sick child or father. All of us are human beings after all, with young children and old parents of our own and so one ends up uttering words of moral support and hoping her situation improves. But it does put more pressure on the already struggling team and thanks to someone like this and some more incompetence from others, I end up going home late, feeling guilty towards my parents and my children.
I read somewhere that hope is one of the hallmarks of youth but I don't understand why they should lose it so easily to take their own lives! I look at old women begging on the road - women who can barely walk, who seem to have nobody to care for them and who should have really nothing to hope for - and they seem to want to live more than some of these younger people!
I'm almost done with the 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist'. Very engaging for a monologue. Throughout the book, there is a tone of "I know you well but you don't know me" which sounds vaguely familiar. I'm curious about Pakistan somehow. For one thing, they don't go gaga over our great 'culture' that is the typical theme that others indulge in. To me that sounds so hollow and makes me cringe.
I've got a lady colleague of mine who is under the scanner for being irregular regularly. You give her something to do and you never know when it will get finished because she's just not in the office half the time. People obviously get upset but even my boss says he can't do anything because every time he decides to be tough with her, she bursts into tears and tells him about her sick child or father. All of us are human beings after all, with young children and old parents of our own and so one ends up uttering words of moral support and hoping her situation improves. But it does put more pressure on the already struggling team and thanks to someone like this and some more incompetence from others, I end up going home late, feeling guilty towards my parents and my children.
I read somewhere that hope is one of the hallmarks of youth but I don't understand why they should lose it so easily to take their own lives! I look at old women begging on the road - women who can barely walk, who seem to have nobody to care for them and who should have really nothing to hope for - and they seem to want to live more than some of these younger people!
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