Smart officials are not sitting on the revolving chairs

 When I was a teenager, people of the community and relatives advised me to study hard so that one day, I will be on the revolving chair ordering the things around. I studied hard and got to sit on the revolving chair. Nobody told me to be smart and cunning. Now with almost a decade in public service, I have realized that people who are smart are never on the revolving chairs. Most of the time, they will be out of office leaving the chair empty and table neat. The public will never meet the smart people in the office. They will be on tour, training and workshops and rightly so if they want to progress in the society. Nobody gives a damn if you are hardworking. Only reward will be more work. Now I understand why smart people are never sitting on the chair even receiving applause for not spoiling a chair a bit in five years.

When you leave your own empty and sit on the chairs of star-rated hotels and conference rooms, you have mainly three advantages; free food, more money in the form of TA/DA and also linkages. The food is short term and least beneficial while the benefit of money is medium. The most significant long term benefits are linkages you build through which you can mint more benefits. All you have to do is talk submissively at the borderline between pyschophancy and appreciation. You will not only be considered contributing members, you may be given more opportunities to balm their ego in the name of making guidelines/policies and SoPs etc.

As you continue doing this more and more, you build more connections and linkages with influential and powerful people which you can use to your benefit throughout your life. Afterall, nobody will know if you sit on your chair and do your assigned jobs perfectly. The best you will get is a half-hearted murmur of thank you from the public you served. Don’t fool yourself by thinking that you are getting a salary due to the public you serve. The smart people who are never in his chair will be getting the same salary and additional perks.

And don’t blame the smart people for doing that. They may tell you to mention names of high post officials and CEOs who got to their position by virtue of hard work and abilities. While their statement may not necessarily be true but perception is not good in the system. Abilities and hard work are wasted if you don’t have professional and personal connections. Even as a boss, do we really appreciate hard working people and try to push them upwards other than “tokenism”? Bosses like people who can get a driving license for their children without a test or help buy land for cheaper prices.

Next time if you don’t meet key officials you want to meet on their chairs, don’t blame them. Instead, appreciate them for they are just building steps for their future career.

This is just a whimsical notion of a fool who wants to be smart but who may fail miserably.

149Kinley Bhuti, Karma Yandn and 147 others

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