One of my senior colleagues has been
visiting me for some official task. And in routine conversation one day he
happened to talk about some of his experiences with our ex- boss. He had worked
with him for more than a year, and he had lots of stories in his memory to
tell. The stories were indeed adventurous, as one can imagine out a year of
administration of a residential university with 3000 students and nearly half
on campus.
He started by appreciating the ex
boss, and told about his interactions with him. Interestingly, in most of the
incidents he narrated, he was the ‘Hero’. He was the one who always stood by
the boss irrespective of anything. He had either helped the ex-boss come out of
the difficult situations or he had warned before. He was always the one who
wanted to save and safeguard the boss in tricky situations. And more
interestingly, in such cases the boss rarely listened to him. Rather, according
to him, he ridiculed him and never liked him; despite that he was all the time
standing beside him, for him. Then, he started criticizing and
eventually abusing the ex boss. And in those stories, there came a point when
he had got so fed up with the boss' attitude towards him that one day left the
office. And the story went like this that the boss called him and pleaded to
come back and he in turn lambasted the boss over the phone.
