Unfair

I live in a suburb of Mumbai off a main artery road that was flooded by the rains. Consequently, I cold not reach office on Tuesday. Unfortunately for me, 80% of the staff reached possibly because they left home very early and the actual problems started only after 9:30 AM when I was still trying to reach the station and take a train. I belonged to the 20% that could not make it.

Thanks to the flooded artery, I was stuck and decided to trudge back home instead of going on to the office once I reached the station. Thanks to news stations, pictures were all over the media. So I could be trusted when my attempt to reach office failed.

The next day it was hardly raining and I reached office hale and hearty only to find that many of the staff could not go back home on Tuesday and stayed on in office till Wednesday morning. They would obviously not be coming to work after that.

Guess what I found out today? The 80 - 20 rule has a new side to it.It does'nt pay to belong to the 20% in such a scenario. I lost a day of my leave to the rains but all those who did not turn up on the next day when things were quite fine do not. They belonged to the majority. The losing minority just gets to crib.

It does not pay to Unbelong. Belong and you suceed, unbelong and you keep fighting a losing battle.