A Species called "Manager"

Well this article is certainly not to puke out all the frustrations one has with their managers and neither is it to prove that they are not bad and it is just their work that makes them as they are. These are just my thoughts that I got a chance to ponder over. 

 No offenses but my philosophy says "A manager can either behave as human or behave as manager". No human being who is working as a manager in an organization can have the level of his humanity intact.What I just want to bring in notice that somehow human ethics and managerial ethics are not mutually exclusive. Indeed we all think ourselves to be the best of the breed but unfortunately or rather fortunately ( I know its mean!!) we aren't.

 I have a job where I get to deal with people belonging to the exclusive class of "manager" and trust me, the dealing is never profitable for me. No matter how hard I strive to turn wind in my direction , but the trained personnel never gives me a chance to feel smart enuff!! No doubt in it that now I am more ready as I was earlier but still the readiness never helps me.

 I have observed that a manager has levels of smiles that he has categorized and reserved for fixed "Occasions" ( Its definitely an occasion for him but its never for us!!!) U often get to see that smile full of sympathy while u always wish it was empathetic .Another form of smile that makes ur manager's day is when u fall in the famous "trap of words". A manger is famous to be king of vocabulary. One can never outrun him in it and thus it is common and quite obvious that each one of us would have felt the gravity in the famous fall. I have had it many times that my manager gives so very unwanted sympathetic cum empathetic cum sarcastic( I don't know what actually it is!!) smiles to make me feel that no matter what happens he will be by my side(which turns out to be back actually) as a mentor, while deep down I  feel like saying "Its OK dude, I am so  fine without you".

 I work in the famous and yet not so famous sector of Information Technology and have a bunch of managers ruling me all the time. All I have learnt in my experience of 2 years is that whether you do ur work on time or don't, u will have to justify urself as the species is always in hunting mode.



All the time while I am being hunt upon, I feel this is a species that can never go extinct and that any level of hunting can never satisfy them,So just relax dear!! The phase will soon be over. But to my sheer disappointment, it never does. Anyways, don't wana have all sympathies to myself, but the question that arises in my mind is, Is it too difficult to handle people without ruling them or being rude? I would like to quote an example or rather an "encounter" I had with my manager where I was asked to justify my requests for leaves.On asking for leaves my manager commented saying that girls ask for half day leaves quite frequently pertaining to "health issues" but they never think that their Cost To Company (CTC) is not based on gender and thus it is equal to males. I felt it like a direct attack to my dignity. but all I could reply was the famous fake smile that I have now learnt being in his company (while in my mind I was cursing him with all effort I could!!!)

 My manager is the most hated person by my family and trust me they have all the reasons for it (courtesy me of course!!!!). 

 With all this ,sometimes I think that its my manager's work to manage people . What if I have to do his task? May be I would also end up being rude with people as I would be on other side of the line.But strangely I am still not able to have any sympathies for him . It is just that we all human beings have been designed in a way where working under someone or being ruled by someone is just not healthy for us. So may be ( Yes i still would still say may be) the member of the species are not that bad as we think them to be or may be as we are not in their shoes ,its not correct to judge them . Anyways, one day I will be in their shoes and then I would probably delete this article of mine and write a new one "A species called subordinates" !!! 

 P.S. I still think "A manager can either behave as human or behave as manager".