WHAT DO PEOPLE DO IN OFFICE?

The office is a present idling zone for majority of Kenyans. It is where hours are honestly wasted and integrity easily compromised. It is where the back when tired to rest straight decides to slide down with the Darwinian tail settling at the edge of the sit just not to fall in the descending nap because the Facebook page has started boring. Women and men together waste their energy in the buildings as students do in schools. When you phone call a person and the answer is ‘I’m in office’ unless he or she is your boss, ask them what they are doing. Chaos. For both the young and old are in equal minimal production unless money incites them to produce more.

An office is a work place, I understand. If I expanded the arena to not only select spaces between the cubicles and silent rooms so as to include outdoor workers whose office can be the flower bed, construction sites, hawking streets and rooms where the major thing drives towards accomplishments of goals in life then I will be accommodative. But the flower beds do not have in-trays and out ones. There is no computer whose flat screen need to be replaced by a mini-laptop. There is no router to show both strong and weak signals. A phone does not hang around ever charging and texting if not calling people. An office may not be the headmaster’s cubicle in  rural primary school. It is something of this description- serene, wi-fi installed, suit-fit, well-paying, a parking lot outside, 8am-4pm thing, disater prepared and all modern luxuries twined. Where I get the guts to ask you what you do in the office is what I am about to learn.

A picture of many words.

Of 10 Kenyans 8 people are corrupt. They go to work ready to steal. They can still anything. They often steal time. Thank you for the research- whoever did it. The dilemma question is if you are among the 8. The country is not suffering because there is a human misfortune spell cast a long time ago in a holy book. It is evidenced by our current doings that if history was erased and all things started a new we will not be different from the past crooked generations who ate people and sacrificed others. We are doing it in a modern way. Just a little laziness in the name of work, just a little of misappropriation of funds, just a bit of procrastination, just a little of a small lie and days go by. Being in the 2 group does mean that you are holier than though. It is because opportunities have not presented themselves before your eyes only to realize you are a pagan. And if you can avoid the opportunity like the biblical Joseph, then you are Ms World- the person whom evolution and creation stories would not describe his origins and future. A god in self.

The first-timer in any office will be welcomed by a serious phase of how things are done in a particular institution. She may be given a few assignments to handle during orientation. A fake culture may be created the very day. After a number of days the office will no longer accommodate the first time attitudes but absorb them into the always culture of organizing birthdays, talking ill about some event or issue, concentrating on past than the future, less focus on the goals and aimless talking that goes beyond the elbow. Some break up and decide to leave the work place. Others end up being the lords of the place. With such an environment the poor new soul who has only been in for a year gets a leeway to sustain personal evils of laziness, ignorance, jealous and ignorance instead of positive experience that increases skill, innovations, resource use and mobilization among other important things that should be learnt. One fool is added to the community from school.

The irony of the matter is that no one will agree to be doing less than he is doing in office. People do not like being challenged. Challenge them as a colleague and you will receive a tag that will destroy your carrier. Tell them they are wrong thinking that Earth has a basement for the righteous to hide and you will not find such a room. Some things you better see and keep to yourselves. Blogging them is even wrong. But in the silence of the night when the souls are busy dreaming lazy dreams in wait for another dawn to waste get out your diary and write about their actions. Write how they laughed from the start of day to the end. Include who came looking bored and sick and could just have not wasted his sleep. How they talked about the weekend. How they think whoever is wrong and needs to go to hell. Their names are not important because they will soon be forgotten by the world than the diary. Use satire to discuss about the boss who is not a mentor but an embarassment figure who deserved not the position. Be brief to pinpoint how resources and time the very valuable assests are misused and exploited. Promise yourself not to be one and you will find joy to wake up with a purpose.

Different people have different concentration thresholds. Once mine is used up there I need refreshment for another activity. I cannot concentrate for more than two hours. Continued sitting is not good. Get up and do something. Time for writings and theories gets over when emails are done and different papers are written. Get to arranging while standing. Do not be lazy to send someone to the sink for a cup of water. Notice when boredom seems to descend and challenge it by picking to another refreshing activity. When your brain can no longer work to your satisfaction you may decide to go out and you will have reduced jam when every pretender gets out of office. When you are at home early enough, in this case I guess you are a self driven person; you can work on ways of getting to work early enough the following day to compensate on work. On matters of time, you should be your own master. If your employee cannot trust you on this then bet me you were made to conform, not to stand out. Working from morning to evening is an asian emperor timeline to human donkeys in Industrial area.

Having wasted time in the day and not a feeling of regret, it gets to the time we should go back to our homes. We all get out in multitudes to cause traffic. The lovers of beer and merry-making head to where they missed most. None wants to utilize the silence to work better and more.  At home we tend to harass the house maids and children in the pretense of 'I’m tired' when it’s not work but sitting in the traffic that caused laxity. We lift up our legs on the table while we rest on the sofa to watch violent news of heavenly trumpets and deaths. We cannot do otherwise. The government should solve the problems, we think. Come month-end we need pay to spend on needs that never satisfy our psyches. We get paid just as we should be. We quantify the pay with the work. There is none to challenge me as long as I am secure with insurance and investments. I need not think about stressing myself with hard work. Such are the thoughts of an ignorant mother. Ask her what she did in office and in guilt you will be slapped and chased away for being a dummy rural house help.

 If only work output equaled our capacities  nothing would be hard for us. Nothing

This post is in praise for the determined souls who willingly do extra work for no pay but general good. The lazy men and women know themselves. They won’t accept it.