{"id":2333,"date":"2016-07-25T15:02:33","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T09:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/office-baccha-workplace-career\/"},"modified":"2016-07-25T15:02:33","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T09:32:33","slug":"office-baccha-workplace-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=2333","title":{"rendered":"Jab Main Office Baccha Tha Badi Shararat Karta Tha"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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remember my first day at my first <\/span>job <\/span><\/a>very fondly. For starters, I was half an hour early at work, a feat I have never managed to repeat in the six years since that historic morning. But the real reason I smile when I think of that day, is because that\u2019s when I was anointed the \u201coffice baccha\u201d. <\/span>\n\nI could show up two hours late and nobody would notice, because nobody pays attention to anything the office baccha does. We no longer live in times when the youngest of the lot is sent off to fetch coffee or is assigned to photocopy 5,863 documents. In modern, new-agey offices, like the ones I have had the good fortune of occupying, office bacchas slink into a corner, stoop low over their laptops, and spend hours trawling the depths of <\/span>YouTube <\/span><\/a>and Reddit. <\/span>\n\nIf you\u2019re a fresher reading this, stop right now. Immediately go count your blessings. You\u2019re in the charmed phase of your career. And before you know it, it will be gone. <\/span>\n\nMost people are so caught up in the excitement of entering the working world for the first time that they never truly appreciate the beauty of being a greenhorn. This is the time when expectation levels are at zero and indulgence levels are set at max. The urge to impress higher-ups and score that tasty letter of recommendation often distracts office bacchas from the fact that they can probably get away with <\/span>murder<\/span><\/a>. In fact, the bar is set so low for you, that you\u2019re expected to fuck shit up. So when you don\u2019t, you\u2019re a champ. At my first job, I emailed a press release to everyone on my team but the copy editor. She stormed over to my desk, demanding to know why the work wasn\u2019t done. When she found out that it had in fact been done, but I was an <\/span>idiot <\/span><\/a>who couldn\u2019t operate Gmail, her frown evaporated into a laugh. \u00a0<\/span>\n\nIt\u2019s unfair, the way the bacchas get a clean chit for nearly everything. Late for a morning meeting? Your weak-ass excuses like \u201cI\u2019d to go pick up my younger sis from school\u201d or \u201cI took my grandma for a walk\u201d elicit an unanimous \u201caww\u201d from the team and you can settle in happily. Screwing up on deadlines? The stressed-out senior with thinning hair is going to take the fall, not you. Vanishing from office for a one-hour smoke break? Nobody notices you\u2019re gone because your net contribution to the day\u2019s output is the square root of fuck-all. <\/span>\n\nThese are secrets I wish I\u2019d known when I was an office baccha, instead of worrying about whether HR would notice my jeans weren\u2019t in line with the company dress code.<\/span>\n\n

Be ready to field questions as inane as \u201cWho packs your dabba?\u201d or \u201cAre you eligible to drink\u201d and as probing as \u201cWhen was the last time you went on a date?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\nSuch is the life of the office baccha \u2013 a happy, consequence-free existence that you\u2019re too ignorant to enjoy properly, sort of like the life of a well-loved <\/span>pet dog<\/span><\/a>. The dog doesn\u2019t realise how good he has it, with people on hand to take him for walks and literally clean up the shit he leaves behind. Instead of appreciating his sweet existence, he\u2019s busy stressing about issues like whether he\u2019ll ever catch his own tail or finally sniff the butt of that strangely familiar-looking dog in the mirror. Given how most HR departments (and landlords) won\u2019t allow pets, office bacchas become workplace surrogates for pets seniors wish they could own.<\/span>\n\nI remember being the focal point of all this pet-parent attention during my time as the office baccha. The only flipside to this role is that your private life is a matter of open discussion. Be ready to field questions as inane as \u201cWho packs your <\/span>dabba<\/span><\/a>?\u201d or \u201cAre you eligible to drink\u201d and as probing as \u201cWhen was the last time you went on a <\/span>date<\/span><\/a>?\u201d The blow is softened by the fact that no one asks you about work. I\u2019m willing to bet that even at the launch of Apollo 11, the new joinee was asked where he bought his shirts from instead of his opinion on rocket thruster strength. <\/span>\n\nThis weird blind spot of your co-workers\u2019 is going to play in your favour. Unfortunately, the perks of the office baccha position depreciate over time, and before you can learn to properly exploit it, your time in the spotlight is over.<\/span>\n\nMy paradise was lost during one of my epic smoke breaks, while I was on a stroll in the garden opposite the workplace. In the middle of the afternoon. My tranquility was shattered by the sound of my ringtone. It was my boss, calling me back to work. I\u2019ll never forget those fateful words, which brought an end to my glory days as the office baccha.<\/span>\n\n\u201cThe new girl is here. She\u2019s your responsibility.\u201d<\/span>\n\nI had to head back, my tail between my legs, to give the latest hire a walkthrough of her roles and responsibilities. I knew it was all lip service, as the task of ensuring her job was done would fall to me. My time as the office baccha was over, and hers was just beginning. I\u2019d no longer be able to watch <\/span>music videos <\/span><\/a>on the sly during our morning meetings, because I\u2019d have to brief her for the day. If she decides to take breaks as long as mine, the task of coming up with an excuse would fall to me. After a few days of this, I began to miss being the office baccha, right down to the irritating, endless questions about what I planned to do with my weekend. What the people asking these questions and even I failed to realise is that when you\u2019re the office baccha, every day is the weekend.<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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