RESPONSIBILITY!

I know! I am a pathetic blogger. Blogs are supposed to be short and sweet and frequent. More than a one year gap in each blog posts does not qualify as even decent. I hope to blog more frequently from now on. However, since blogging is a way of expression shortening it down is not my cup of tea as of now. :)

This chain of thoughts started on my 3rd day of work at my company. As of then, I never had even the faintest notion that I could be responsible in anyway. But then, a gallup online strengths finder test said my first strength was RESPONSIBILITY! Seriously, I didn't think any questionnaire however detailed it maybe could predict a human being so well. Sure enough, here I am 3 months after joining in the company, no sense of responsibility professionally and personally. :P

However, kudos to my company, I have learnt so much about how irresponsible people can be. The corporate picture of the company was rosy and still continues to be rosy. Clean floors, excellent interior designing, excellent cafeteria practices, dustbins everywhere, neat washrooms, the list goes on... Then I came to the Plant where the manufacturing goes on, the atmosphere is as un-international as possible. I agree the plant is in the process of construction of a good interior design but the looks of it is not what I am going to talk about.

When I was a kid no matter what I learnt well, I learnt one thing. If a place is not my house, then it is somebody else's and it should be maintained with the same dignity. It was a painful lesson that I learnt when I was scratching with pencil on the house walls and my mother taught me the lesson with all the thrashing :D In our house, if we drink cofffee in a paper cup then we walk till the dustbina nd throw it there. In our house if mother gives us something to eat in paper plate we crush it nicely and throw it in the dustbin. In our house, we replace the doormat if it is too contaminated with outside dirt. However, in the plant apparently no one has an in-house attitude. Nobody has a sense of responsibility even towards the mess they created.

Every morning I come to the learning center to find the chairs kept astray. Not arranged in the positions they were kept. The paper plates with food and half filled coffee cups lying around. Thanks but I don't eat or drink leftovers!!
Even in college and even here, when I see such insensitive acts, I feel like going and littering the homes of the concerned parties. How much time does it take to walk till the dustbin and put it in there?!
Then once when it was raining outside, I wiped my leg in the doormat and walked in and my colleague walked in without doing so. I left more footprint trails than she did. So much for being concerned about keeping the hall clean!! I assume doormats also come in the foray of projects and viable payback periods!!
I am not highlighting these as a defect in my company. I heard from my friends that the situation is the same in most plants. My question is why do these companies go for an outwardly portrayal of responsibility in the corporate world while it is actually not so in the plants. Either make that dirty or make this neat.
Ultimately, I may not be the one who is putting those paper plates in the dustbin ( though I do it sometimes!). It will be one of those workers. Why should they clean the mess we created? Imagine how much sensible work they could do when they were not arranging our chairs or throwing food residues in the dustbins!

In all my years of academics, I was never an excellent student. I was bordering on average. It was a thing that always pained me. But when I came to college and here at work when I see some superiors who must have proven themselves well in academics, behaving so irresponsibly it really gives me some sense of relief! I did miss on academic intricacies, but I learnt much more crucial lessons in life that are apparently difficult to learn.

My question to everyone who do not put mess in the dustbin is just this:
"How the hell did you pass UKG?? Did you copy??"