Off late, I have started traveling in my office cab for commuting. You call it cost cutting, recession, economic blockade, promotion or logics – I call it Hobson's choice (A free choice in which only one option is offered).
While traveling, the people who accompany me in the cab always ask at least one question to the cab driver. Purely depending on the nature of question, you can make out the profile that the person is handling. I bring to you a few of them:
Question: My drop is at Road No. 12, tell me exactly at what time will I reach home, you can also take 5 minutes as grace time? Conclusion: This person is a Manager because all he cares about and wants is an answer.
Question: Will I be dropped first? Conclusion: For sure an Assistant Manager who is tired of trying to get to a Manager’s position. All he cares now is reaching home fast.
Question: Who are the other people in the cab? Conclusion: A definite Team Leader who is more worried about others than his own self. Sorry but the cut throat completion has made him so.
Question: Is the AC working? Conclusion: Just been promoted to a Senior Associate position, so he thinks he is going to get extra benefits everywhere (to tell you we never had an AC cab).
Question: Driver Bhai, Is this cab going to Route no. 7? Conclusion: Definitely an associate, he just wants to be sure that he makes no mistake because even if anyone else also does, he will be blamed.
Question: Can you please check again if I am listed in your Cab list? Conclusion: Bottom of hierarchy, a junior associate because he knows he gets things only when no one wants it.
Question: Do we get cabs everyday? Conclusion: A New Joinee, because he knows things are not the way they appear at first.
According to Mamkol, “Wish we had answers instead of questions.”
