Me And My Alter Ego

We were sitting in the lunchroom when I heard my boss, "Dev, I will gift you the car you were talking about buying in the coming month!"

  
I looked at him, surprised, but I knew my boss could do that as he was happy with the annual result.

I asked, "What's the occasion, sir?"

He took a sip of tea and said, "Sell 5000 extra 'Local Call Meters" this month, and that car is yours."

Let me confess my alter ego that refers to my hidden side, which felt a rush of blood towards my brain. It can be that part of me that I do not want to reveal due to societal expectations or personal reasons. Do you understand what I mean?

I wanted to say, "Don't you think my alter ego was an important and deep aspect of my personality, which reflects parts of my work culture and not just my ego, and that doesn't get hurt under normal circumstances, but when you hurt my work ethic?"

But I said, "No, I will not."

Actually I was trying to tell my boss that I was not a pimp.

He looked at me amazed, or should I say baffled!

Let me tell you in detail. My personality, which my boss understood, but he tried to bribe me into doing something that I could not do. What I want to say is that my personality clashed with the boss's expectations.

He should have known me better than that. Sometimes our personal values ​​and boundaries face challenges in professional life. When my boss pushed me into doing something that was against my ethics, it was an attack on my work ethic.

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My boss's expectations, greed, and pressure were in line with my capability but against my work ethic, or you could say my own set of rules. I am a man of my own rules and never compromise with them. Sometimes, bosses put pressure on employees to achieve their targets, but this pressure doesn't work on everyone, and I was one of them, no matter the amount of money or temptation.

That situation made me uncomfortable, especially as the work was against my moral values ​​and personal principles. Had he challenged me to it as a professional, I was likely to get hooked but not for money.

Everyone has his limits, and when someone asks to cross these limits, it can cause mental stress, and this is what happened to me. My boss said that if you sell 5000 local call meters this month, I will gift you your favorite car.

So he did not know that if he said that you were saying something that I did not want to do, it could affect my self-esteem and self-confidence. I was a marketing manager, not a commission agent.

If my boss said, "Dev, if you sell 5000 local call meters, then I will consider you a great marketing professional." Maybe I would have tried to sell 6000 call meters, but after he said this, I immediately offered my resignation and went on leave by giving 30 days' notice.

After 30 days I joined another company despite my boss offering me a 30% hike in salary and promised to fulfill other terms and conditions, but it was too late, and I had no intention of staying there. I was not a broker who worked for the greed of commission but for the passion of work.

I am not saying money is not important but for me, ethics take the front seat.

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