Part of the syllabus of Paper I
(Work Environment and Colleagues), Office Dynamics Course
1. Workspace. The place to spend 50 hours a week. Shared workspaces:
Territorial claims. Territory markers: photographs, print outs, dustbins, pen
stands, files, coffee stains. How to ignore the same markers from the other
person(s). Individual cabin: Staying awake; crying alone; alternatives to
watching porn. (…)
2. Superiors. Bosses and problems. All bosses are problems but all
problems are not bosses. Superiority complex. Ego: morphology and
manifestations. Feeding the superior ego: gifts, praises, sycophancy, free
time, leaves, life, universe, everything.
(…)
4. Office romance. Study of standard pathways:
boredom-attraction-crush-love-affair-marriage-boredom;
boredom-attraction-crush-love-rejection-boredom;
boredom-attraction-crush-love-lover’s marriage to someone else-Devdas;
marriage-job-boredom-attraction-crush-love-hidden forever; marriage-job-boredom-attraction-crush-love-clandestine
affair-toilet cubicle-less boredom; stress-sharing of stress-gentle
friendship-retirement. (…)
(…)
6. Office parties. Drinking with people you hate. How to unsay what is
said. How to avoid being tagged in drunken groupfies. How not to drink in
parties. (…)
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