Working in the Civil service or any corporate organization nowadays you had to work hard and increase productivity showing the bosses that you are dependable, committed and caring, and that in an emergency, he can count on you.
Bosses don’t like to do the dirty, hard work. They want someone else to do it. And because you demonstrate that you are always available to do it, they will think of you as indispensable to the company when what it means is that you are indispensable to them. Ever notice how in any retrenchment, the CEO does not sack his secretary?
Seriously, the true fact is that nobody is indispensable to the company or country, not even the founder like Steve Jobs who founded Apple Computer was once sacked by the board because they thought he was leading the company down the road to financial perdition. The civil services food chain
But as long as your boss considers you indispensable to him, and he is considered indispensable to his boss, and so it goes on all the way up, everyone in this “indispensable” food chain is unlikely to get retrenched. Another scenario if the whole company collapses because it has run out of money to feed the excessive number of indispensable food chains within well that’s another story.
So, probably by now, a company or any civil services organization is made up of human food chains. Some chains are seen as more valuable to the company; as a result people belonging to it get to eat more, paid more, enjoy more perks, and keep their jobs longer in a recession. Therefore, is wise to know which food chain you belong to AND make yourself indispensable for now
Still think you are having a bad day?
A woman came home to find her husband in the kitchen shaking frantically, almost in a dancing frenzy, with some kind of wire running from his waist towards the electric kettle. Intending to jolt him away from the deadly current, she chopped him with a handy plank of wood, breaking his arm in two places. Up to that moment, he had been happily listening to his Walkman.
