THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE

U mean I have to sell my soul too?

If you have ever been on the other side of the fence or maybe still is, you can complain and complain till the cows come back. These are what I would call as anti-establishment attitude.


It's so easy to be on the other side to criticize or pass comments on management. I have been there and have been known to voice out my frustrations against any policies that does not bring any favor to the working class (whom I consider myself as one). Its actually very easy to do so but what happens when you are no longer on the other side of the fence, and management now recognizes your deeds and invites you over to the other side, what would you do?


Of course accept it with a heart full of thanks, well, maybe see if the package to bring me over to the other side is worth it or not? Not all the times, the packages are good, but many a times, to entice these unsuspecting young foolhardy over, special packages are arranged. These packages will include perks like increment, increase of annual leave or anything good so that fresh meat is definitely brought over.


So, when you are over at that side of the fence, and you are officially the mouthpiece of the management, how can you go back to those days when you were so carefree? Now, when you open your mouth, you need to be very careful what you say out. Since you are the Management's mouth piece, its very hard to envision your days of complaint diarrhoea from the other side of the fence.

What management now dishes out to you, even if its not palatable, you have to say it tastes just heavenly and have to convince the other side of the fence to accept it. What a reversal of roles, really! And you very know by reading this, it bothers on hypocrisy's!

Really, what can we foolhardy have in our own strength achieve? We are beholden to the management for their generosity and their acceptance of us, that we since we are taking a pay from them, we have no choice but to follow them. Unless, one of us dare to speak out against the establishment and the management accepts our criticism before handing out termination letter, my good sense guess is everyone will just toe their line, nod their heads and live like robot like in the office.


Phew, what a world we live in? If the outside world is not already bad enough, why do we have to endure all of this in the corporate world as well? Money, money, the need to survive I guess...what say you guys?