It seems to have begun with JL Nehru. We were made to believe that he worked almost round the clock. His daughter had justified use of luxury airconditioned cars in an era of strict socialism on the ground that she was working ALL the time. Now our Pradhan Sevak, numero uno mazdoor, has promised to outdo all of us by working one hour more than us. The big question is what happens if we start working round the clock, 24 hours a day?
The answer to that question was provided to me quite some time back by a very aggressive boss. He demanded an impossible throughput from the training system. It was demonstrated to him that the system will fall much short of the target even if all the resources were deployed for 24 hours a day. He said without blinking an eyelid, "In that case work 36 hours a day!"
With a view to spare our PS such mathematical absurdities, I have stopped working altogether. In fact I did that four years ago. Thus, as far as I am concerned, the PS would have fulfilled his promise by working one hour each day.
My own experience in a PS Bank has convinced me that using hours input instead of objective targets as a measure of performance is the surest sign of an incompetent and lost executive. This has caused untold miseries to the working class. It is time that people at the top stopped fueling this myth.
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