NOBODY

 While I had been working,  I could see that some who had worked with me were being promoted. 

Award of promotions are the management's prerogative. 

I felt the management must have seen them much better than me.

I held no grudge.

It meant they went a step ahead of me . 

That jump sometimes enabled them to frogleap higher and higher. 

Though we were equals at one point of time  the person who had gone ahead would no longer treat me as his equal anymore. 

 The position eats into him and he assumes he is the Lord of all he surveys.

His attitude would tell us plainly while all are  equal some are more equal than others.

 In our organisation people were known by the scales we were in. 

I think it was one to eight or nine. 

The scales reveal to every one the position one is placed in the organisation. 

The higher scales you are in, you ignore those in the lower scales. 

Well, positions are transient. 

The guys who were ignoring you starts recognising you once they superannuate. 

Suddenly he considers you as his equal becuase he is a  nobody just like you.