Waffles and Wisecracks

All working professionals know this. There are bosses. Then there are lady bosses. We work with the law of discrimination, so just boss naturally means a male person. Lady boss, on the other hand is so much more than just a female you report to. She is not supposed to admonish you for coming late to work. She should ask first. People might have genuine reasons, and it is totally unbecoming a lady boss to be angry about tardiness. She is female, she should posses natural instinct and ability to empathise. She never delegates work. She politely asks you if you will do such and such for her, pretty please? It would be so great if that gets done by such and such date. If there is a challenge, you could always approach her and you can work it out together, easy peasy! Of course, if she mentions this task on an email, she is expected to add friendly emoticons and lots of exclamation marks. How would it look if you receive direct instructions from a female! So unlady-like. During ...

Sometimes while going through news articles or social media feed, I wonder what happened to us humans? How did we lose the ability to feel empathy? I am a proud Mumbaikar, born and raised here. I proudly say that this is one place where people will be least interested in your private life. They will mind their own business. But give a shout out, if you need something and the Mumbai spirit will answer. We go out of our way to show our empathy. I hesitate to make these type of statements these days. Are we really like that still? I hesitate to give an honest answer in my own head. The old days were mainly about face to face conversations. Moms taught their children, "If you don't have anything nice to say, say nothing." We would be largely nice and if we had to confront each other, it would be done in a civilized manner. People who didn't like each other or were constantly quarelling would try to avoid each other to prevent major issues. People would even fi...

Art by @theAwkwardYeti Never thought I would start a brand new blog amidst a very Hollywoodesque, apocalyptic kind of situation. Usually, in those movies when the world is ending it is just the USA and we are nowhere in the picture. Some American regular damaged guy then single handedly rescues everyone and saves the world (American world) If only... Nope. Reality is that medical professionals, sanitation workers, police, grocery store owners, farmers, chemist shops etc are the real heroes. Multiple people across the entire planet. Regular damaged people are saving the world by sitting at home like obedient children. Working from home. Some are writing blogs. Social distancing is necessary but it also feels isolating, doesn't it? How are you coping? I hope to distract you from the usual activities and provide some tips to maintain that, much needed peace of mind in these trying times. Get off social media. If you really need to go there, just plan what you want to do. D...