You can judge a person by the way they treat their servants and subordinates. Well, can you? Yes you can and you should. The way you treat your househelp, servant, Subordinate, junior and anyone else who is mentally, physically and economically not up to your mark, shouts out a lot about your character. If you treat them like Hitler treated jews, then people are bound to have an opinion on you. They are probably going to think you are a cruel German dictator with a funny moustache hell bent on conquering the world. If you are the kind of person who has a habit of screaming and yelling at servants and subordinates it more or less paints the impression that you are a frustrated idiot, who is probably not getting a promotion, nor any sex and so is taking out his sad life’s frustration on this here innocent servant. Of course there are enough people in the world who want to project themselves as leading sad lives for them to care too much about letting fly that occasional yell at the househelp.
What you ought to realize is that if you find it totally acceptable to burp out insults at waiters after each dinner, then you shouldn’t feel too bad when you face much of the same. For every fish in the pond there is a bigger one in the ocean. Then you really should lose the right to complain about how the boss treats you as if you were a pile of cow dung, especially when you treat your juniors much the same. That's when you realize what it feels like to be screamed at and barked at for doing things wrong.
Boss: You are a lousy brainless idiot. Cant you do anything right? Get in your cabin and get me the reports. Get me a club sandwhich and a cup of coffee while you’re at it.
You: damn, this does feel kinda bad.
Hurts doesn’t it?
There are something’s in life that money cant buy, like a character, for everything else there is mastercard. Bullying the people who work for you, is not at all the best way to show people that you have money and/or power. A better way would be to build the Taj Mahal. Or a gigantic bungalow somewhere on a Mediterranean island. The only thing that you show when you bully someone at your service, is your anger and of course your frustration at having such a sad, sexless life.
Forgetting all that you ought to respect the work that people do regardless of how inconsequential and stupid it looks. If you think that Saku bai is only a talentless maid who only scrubs the floor, does the dishes and washes the clothes, think again. If you did Saku Bai’s job for one day you would realize the talent and power of Saku Bai. It takes skill and hardwork to scrub your grimy floors clean, it is the proper definition of back breaking work. One day of scrubbing and sweeping and you will be reaching for Moov pain relief cream faster than you can say, “ah se aaaah tak”. Not to mention how difficult it is to wash your underwear and smelly socks when you have only a tiny peice of Rin bar left. It is bloody tough work, something to be respected.
And then is the application of the law of karma. If you do good you get good, If you do bad, you get your ass kicked. Revenge will be taken on you for acting like an uncivilized chimpanzee in ways you wouldn’t want to know. Try being rude to a waiter and the next thing you know, the soup that you will be sitting will be flavoured with his spit and other assorted bodily fluids. Where did you think those hairs that you found in your noodles, come from? And are you sure they look like hair from the head? Oh and I doubt you want your house keys to be given to random people who happen to steal for a living. Or have your diamond necklace mysteriously missing, just after you yelled at the servant.
When you treat your juniors and helpers like insects, you get no loyalty from them. The only thing you get is a copy of their tell-all book which they wrote after they got fed up of your bossy ways. Servants and House help know a lot about you, because they see you in your natural environment, your home, where you are at your candid best. Imagine if they get pissed off and leave you, or gossip about you or worst of all write a tell-all book about their time in your household. Soon all your friends, family and neighbours will find out how you keep padding up and down in the house only in your pyjama with oil in your hair. Or about the number of men that visit your house when your husband goes out on a business tour. Or about the times when you get drunk and do that stupid pinapple dance that you are so ashamed off? If you don’t want loyalty or alternatively if you want the world to know the inner details of your embarrassing life, go ahead be nasty to your servants!
Be nice.
By Editor Man
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