The Mini Boss Syndrome!

The Mini Boss Syndrome! We all have faced, seen, or even be at some point that the obnoxious lad in our class sitting on the first bench, doing all the assignments on time, solving all the questions even before the teacher and  then having that grin on the face when whole class is getting punished of someone else’s deeds! Like that’s not enough, these little hobbits manage to sneak into the classroom during a mass bunk and gifts everyone else with an “A” in attendance register while they enjoy their streak .

                                  
Ask any question, they always have an answer, latest date sheet upload, fellow sections syllabus update, which assignment teacher gave which they missed to give, from rankers to flunkies, and God knows what, they are freakin newspapers!  Not to mention about raising hands they are the ones with the highest hand so much that Mr.Gandhi can take them for their election campaign (being a hand as their voting symbol). Funny, that reminds me of my favorite character in harry potter. The more teachers like those students, the more other students are contagious of them!

So, like us they also passed their B school and with even better grades. Undoubtedly got placed in some great names and congratulations you have got your old pal back working with us with version 1.0. Version 1.0 replaces questions with queries, diary notes with MOMs, buttering with adulate and casuals with formals! But, as “They say” (last article reference) one can change everything but not their nature so, we can get the real glimpse time to time. Almost everyone who has worked professionally must have encountered with that one person in his or her team who actually has “Mini Boss Syndrome”. From work alignment to the tea partner, from setting meetings to conducting sessions, from reciprocating in a meeting to taking poll for outing the mini boss plays a great proxy to the boss! Most of you have already have a smile on their face picturing your mini boss those who are still struggling to identify their old friend let me help you with the identification. Like a good perfume can get recognized as you step into the room, similarly they have such natural charm and characteristics that stands them out of ordinary; you can easily recognize “your long lost friend” in any meeting, official dinner or even normally on the floor. Few of them are:

“The Yes Guy”: So, the person with the most “yes “in any discussions, meeting or on a call is your  guy.  For instance:

                            Boss: I think we should have this meeting bi weekly than monthly..

                           Your friend: Yes

                            All others: Blank faced and thinking about lunch or dinner

The Task Keeper: Well he is actually the person doing the most important tasks like “trainings”, “documentation”, “presentation” on time and also keeps a check on others as well.

The Tail Ender: He is actually the person accompanying the boss in every meeting, every party, every break whether tea, snacks or smoke he is the right partner in crime for the leader. No prize for guessing what gets discussed there, that gets me to the next point.

The Secret Keeper : So, like any of us the boss also have those authenticated mails  aka “professional secrets” encoding which all new projects are coming in , which new policies are coming in, who’s going out, who all coming in,  any new vacancies, who’s doing good, who’s doing bad everything! And like any other homo sapiens he also need someone to guard that secret along , well who better than our friend!

The Master mind or the Manipulator: Surprised what happened over weekend or overnight, or how you landed upon a project you never wanted or always wanted? Well, it’s not overnight or all of sudden my dear but it’s great hard work of our very own friend over a coffee/tea/samosa or even over a sutta.

The Informer: Don’t be surprised if your heart talk is getting discussed in the meeting room as the point of discussion. You would be dumb to think that your boss has only the God given eyes, but on the contrary he has God’s eyeS borrowed from others and our friend has a great eye sight to lend.

 Keeping up with all these characteristic is not easy but I’ll say it’s a trait. Just few things never let attitude blur your wisdom, personal equation with superior impact your image or relationship with others. Also, use your special privileges for your ease but not for other’s worse.

So if next time when you get irritated of your old friend just remember your first row classmates , feels nostalgic and smile!

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