Our generation is living in very difficult times. Life is quite tough to say the very least. There is cutthroat competition in every field and so nothing but hundred percent effort yields desired results. Individuals have to perform literally out of their skins to achieve their targets. The term professionalism has now got an exaggerated significance attached to it. The employer and the employees have a very convoluted and intricate relationship in this era.
In the days gone by one would leave work at work place only but now with the advent of cell phones and communicators one can be traced even on the moon. There is nothing like seclusion or time to retreat. There are so many checks on the employees working in a corporate organization these days that one feels like working in an intelligence agency. To an extent these organizations are justified in spying their employees because they do not want their competitors to know their trade secrets, success formulas or patent designs. This constant probing and snooping can become an irritant for most of us but the trust level between the employer and the employees has deteriorated over the years.
A lot of us are registered on social networking sites like facebook, twitter or have our own blogs. We all are humans and in the spur of the moment can say a lot of things on any of these sites which are detrimental to the cause of the organization we are working for. Just recently the chairman of the cash rich Indian Premier League (Cricket) got sacked for revealing official secrets on his twitter account. Likewise an England cricket player, Kevin Pietersen was fined for puking out his frustration bluntly after being dumped for some games owing to his poor form.
I for one am not a big fan of too much snooping but somehow or the other it seems to have become the need of the hour in changing modern times where so much that we do or write is in public domain. No matter how many loyalty bonds or agreements the corporate organizations sign in with their employees they can never be certain about the allegiances of their employers. This has essentially made snooping inevitable as the stakes are very high in most cases. Our personal life is not personal any more whether we like it or not .This is the world that we have created where we have some of the most amazing facilities at our disposal but this development has come at the expense of invasion in our personal lives. We should actually learn to live with it and quit moaning about it once and for all.
I feel that the above statements related to the topic "Snooping Bosses" coincide with some of my thoughts regarding this subject. I actually only have a couple of comments on the second paragraph.
ReplyDelete1) The first sentence feels like it should be - "In the days gone by one would leave work AT THE WORKPLACE
but now with the..."
2) Another spontaneous thought would be - "...feels like working FOR an intelligence agency."
Extremely good use of language, professional, still readable.
ReplyDeleteAs for the post itself, I both agree and disagree. It is, sadly, true that in our world, surveillance gets more and more accepted. At work, to some extent, I think it is perfectly fine, as long as you do not exaggerate it. But at home, you should be free from all snooping eyes, because that is a human right. Freedom though, comes with responsibility, one should not abuse it, just so they can post company secrets all over the web. But still, putting in heavy surveillance before an actual crime has been committed, is a crime in itself.
And why should we learn to live with something, only because someone with more "power" than you says so? If I discovered I was being watched at home, by any one of my superiors, I'd quit faster than they could say "Say cheese to the camera".