Having a couple of years of experience in the corporate has led me to meet and work under many managers. I admire a lot of their qualities but this section is not for that. I have come across some strange scenarios and crazy scenes I never thought were possible. Check this out:
One day my manager from the US organised a call for me and my colleague. He had attached a presentation in the meeting set-up mail for us to go through.
He asked us at the start of the meeting, "So who is sharing the screen?" OK, things were fine till now, right? Not for long. I thought my colleague would share because he's really active in these meetings but he asked me to share. And if you know me, I get straightforward. Sometimes to the greater extent. This time, I replied to my manager, "Yes, you can share the screen."
OH MYY GOD. Yup I just said that!
Damn.
And he paused. My colleague paused. And I paused. No one said anything for few seconds. The silence was deadening. I realised I needed to say something if I had to ease out the situation. And I began by explaining my reasoning.
I told him that since he had to explain the ppt, it's better if he shared it and navigated it freely.
Anyway, my manager was calm and didn't say anything. Ofcourse, what could he. I made him speechless. Probably no other employees ask back their managers to share screen themselves.
"Too bad Nishant", I said to myself. This definitely was not the place to show your strange straightforwardness.
This was one of the tales.
Will add more here soon.
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