DEAR CORPORATE PEOPLE

Good Day everybody, ....its a Friday again and we are grooving to Patie Polly's Beats; let's talk about our Managing Directors, Executive Directors, Head of departments, everybody that has a desk, a work station, space that they run or manage, yes The Corporate People in the Corporate world. I personally have had endless encounters with these fellas, considering my kind  my job, it's definitely what i have to deal with each day.

Everybody would like to have an address at a job, responsibilities that will earn us a penny at the end of the month. Or so our childhood dreams were. When we get that appointment letter to our new job, we want to call for a celebration, when we get promoted to a bigger position, we just can't help it but smile even at dim mirrors. But what happens a few months after we have 'conquered' that little territory? Where do we forget our manners each morning when we come to work? What goes wrong with treating people like we used to before we became one of the 'big bosses'?

The worst and most bothering experience i have had is dealing with the "Lunch hour break" that lasts forever. Mid day, 1 pm, 2 pm,....are we still in this break? Its so annoying when you have to deal with most of these 'big bosses' whose break lasts a lifetime till 3:40 pm and by 4:20 pm "you may have to come back tomorrow" as their secretaries/assistants will say. Maybe i'm not in the know but as far as i remember, most of these companies and institutions have a label at the building entrances indicating their daily working hours, what then happens in these offices? I never find a note on the office door indicating a different schedule of work!

People do relax in the green lash but i had never done so till last week.

Last week i had to pick some documents from some 'big boss' which were really urgent. This person was aware of this, even though i didn't "make a formal appointment" to meet them. So as usual, I'm rushing against the clock, crossing from Bank of Baroda to Worker's  House like some thug being chased around so i can be able to catch this person before they "step out" of office. At exactly 12: 27 pm, i showed up to an empty chair and like i said, the assistant told me,"she is out for lunch, you may have to come back at around 2." I insisted and inquired if she could be reached via phone call, to which this assistant agreed only to hear the phone ring in one of the drawers! What??? These people don't even take their phones with them, they don't wanna accommodate any inconveniences while they go on with their business, Jesus save the queen....!


So, i stormed out of office, slammed the door behind me and stared at the long corridor covered with a nice maroon carpet, pondering about what i have to occupy myself with till 2 or even 3 pm. A subtle thought alerted me of window shopping at Boulevard, but then i couldn't loam around for two hours,....these shop attendants don't like you 'just checking out' their staff without even picking a thing, they start monitoring you on their cameras, just in case you are a thief! That plan was a dead one, i didn't know where to be thou,...can't stand in the middle of nowhere for that long.

Just so you know, i got them shoes off and relaxed!

Long story short, i ended up under a huge tree shade, "Awo nga ku City Square" never thought i would be one of the people i see there till i was comfortably sipping on a cold Novida, sold to me by this lady who kept pacing around "my space", momentarily raising her eyebrows at me, asking if i wanted something. It clocked 2:30 pm, i commuted back to worker's house only to be told,"You just missed her, she will be in office tomorrow by 9 am. I wasn't feeling fresh enough already, my deodorant was wearing away with each hour under the tree, and now i had to deal with another stream of sweat that couldn't help but steam my forehead anew.

DEAR CORPORATE PEOPLE, STOP TOSSING US AROUND, CANCELLING APPOINTMENTS WITH NO PRIOR COMMUNICATION AND BEING TOO LAZY TO PICK A STAMP FROM YOUR MATE WHO IS IN THE ADJACENT OFFICE THEREFORE MAKING US WAIT 15 MINUTES TILL YOU MAKE A CALL FOR THE SAME. WE TOO, HAVE BOSSES WAITING FOR THEM DAMN DOCUMENTS, THANK YOU.