Does a cup of coffee bring you a step close to your boss…in making him your friend...??
Have you ever tried to be a friend to your stressed out or strict or devilish or sweetest boss..??
Though it has been a prevalent practice of bringing coffee during work hours for your boss… or meeting him for a coffee at any coffee shop or club in evening…But how many of you have really thought of meeting your boss in person to know him better especially as a friend…only a handful of us. In daily scenario of a hustled and bustled work culture, dominancy, moving ahead, getting promotion and getting privileges is what one looks for. Being in a competitive zone, every one nowadays wants to pull down the other and win the race by hook or by crook. Amongst all of them, the ones that stand close and next to the bosses are the Secretaries….
Since sometime, it has been observed that secretaries bring coffee for their bosses. However, when we tried to find out we realized, that no one has any idea how this culture came into practice. But can we just term this as - TREND...!
Trend that suddenly came into practice and to which there no justified beginning. It just started and being followed everywhere like a rule. Be it the sweetest of the boss or the strictest, every secretary is expected to bring coffee for them.
Another question that arises over here is - doesn't a task like bringing coffee is devaluation of skill's and other eligible qualities goes unnoticed...??
Bringing coffee is however a personal errand...but we also know that over cup of coffee...bonding generally becomes stronger. It is a fact that the work culture between a boss and secretary is strong one. None of his staff would understand him as best as her...but is it the coffee....? It’s a very common thing when we hear a secretary having an affair with her boss or a secretary getting married to her boss. This could have been a little unusual if we heard..that the secretary is her boss’s best friend…!!
Work culture has no connection with a cup of coffee. Why does a boss desires his secretary to bring him coffee.. Though we have seen in movies like – The devil wears Prada…that the second secretary gets coffee for her boss, where she is expected to know her value in the company. Is it that the male bosses have different expectation over the female bosses or it’s just that they consider their secretaries some educated maids? Or is it that every one junior to the boss is considered as their servant…? No answers and questions are many.
But the most important question is - What makes you bring a cup of coffee for him daily...... is it an instruction you are bound to follow...or do you really wish to de - stress him and ease out his tensions......does it really help you to be his friend and vice versa....?
Or is it just a cup of coffee.....and you wanna be just a secretary......!!..??
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