Working after 6pm….

I don’t know why people take pride in saying “I was working till 12 since last 2 weeks…..”. Is it because they love working or they are in-efficient, maybe because they are used to it. According to me mix of all these 3 factors.

I was working in Patni in Bombay and was always lucky enough to move out of office at 6 pm….. rarely had I ever sat beyond 7, so one of my co worker asked me “How come you always leave by 6? Don’t you have enough work ?”. For a moment it hurt me not because he said I don’t have work, but because people still think (especially these so called emerging new Management Trainees and Engineering trainees) that you are a good efficient employee only if you sit out after 6 and go home only at 9 or 10.

This is not only with the IT people, I have seen one of my cousin in Pune who is a business person and has some 20-30 staff working under him. He always says “ aree yaar, There is not a single day that I have come home before 11 pm”, crazy stuff, if you are so cribbing about your late hours then why can’t you complete your task before time. In India this has become a norm that people who stretch their selves beyond working hours are regarded as hard workers, sad really sad.

Rightly sad in a way by Narayan Moorthi that “In IT If you can’t complete your task withing the stipulated period, then you are not fit to be in IT Industry”, maybe a very common notion which you guys may have heard from chain mails, but is very true. Even I work beyond 6 at times but inside I ask myself that why I stretched myself, shouldn’t I have completed the task on time.

So people who say that person leaving that by 6 or 6:30 an ALARM BELL or tease him, better look to yourself…. You are the one who is in-efficient not him, so better complete your task and go home, ENJOY LIFE…..