{"id":2904,"date":"2009-07-20T19:51:10","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T11:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=2904"},"modified":"2009-07-20T19:51:10","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T11:51:10","slug":"lousy-boss-karma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/07\/lousy-boss-karma\/","title":{"rendered":"Lousy Boss Karma"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An associate of my boss called me today. He was supposed to meet my boss and the latter was supposed to bring two printouts along. Just three days ago, I had slipped them under his office door (as he was not in), after which I texted him this – ‘Just slipped documents in office. Please bring to bank on Monday.’ Almost immediately, he replied ‘Ok’. Yet, today, this associate called to say my boss who is with him didn’t know he had to bring the documents. I asked to pass the phone to him. I told him I texted him and he replied ‘Ok’. He replied agitatedly that I should had reminded him. Well, the message WAS a reminder, because the envelope already had the same reminder written on it. And if he needed another reminder, he should have told me so. Indignant that he made me seem irresponsible to his associate when he was the unmindful one, I texted him this to jog his memory – ‘Sent this on Friday and you replied “Ok” – “Just slipped documents in office. Please bring to bank on Monday.”‘ As expected, there is no apology. In fact, he has never apologised for his mistakes to me.<\/p>\n

This incident made me wonder why I have such a boss. Then it struck me that it’s my karma. Next, I wondered why he deserved an assistant like me – whom I think isn’t bad at all. The answer is still along the same line – it’s his karma. Just when I was struck with dismay at how fatalistic all these seems, I recalled that karma is dynamic. I can change my karma to deserve a better boss or even be my own boss. I can change the nature of the same boss if I increase my wisdom too – provided he is willing to change. The moment I leave might be the moment my karma changes too – in the sense of ‘coinciding’ with the end of my \u00a0‘lousy boss karma’. And if I were to leave, my boss’s karma of having a good assistant might change at the same time too. The kind of assistant he does not value and respect enough he will lose the karma of deserving – unless he changes in time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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