The (un)important people !
Often at farewell meetings during superannuation or transfers etc, people talk about their experiences. About how life had been in a particular office, their higher-ups and usually a verbose about the value they had added. Most of them conveniently miss out a bunch of people who worked in the same office. The importance of these people cannot be undermined but it just fails to garner attention ! At my first place of posting, I never interacted with the contingent staff except for an occasional thanks when my table was wiped in front of me or my water bottle was filled when it was empty. But at my current place of posting with just 4 of us employed in the office, my interaction did not pertain to that occasional thanks. In the due course of time, I realized that Kanaga Vijayan or Kanaga Anna (the person employed for cleaning the office) knew way more than I did. It's like the Head Nurse in a hospital knowing things better than a freshly graduated doctor. From my limited expe...