PENSIONERS

 

During my service , they had elevated me to Scale III, Manager, level. I didn't go up further as they must have discovered, I was not suitable for  higher positions than that. 

I have no complaints. I am just happy they had allowed me to reach  where I reached.

They must have known I was no good and if I had been pushed up I would have dragged the organisation to the deep pits of devastation and ruin.

I am happy the organisation has survived the test of times and has ascended to the top whereas if I had been up somewhere, according to them, the scenario might have been utter desolation.

However I am always amused, when those who had been my juniors and who had been elevated to the higher echelons, hallowed precincts I had been debarred from, ask me,  from which post I had signed off from the organisation after their own superannuation.

I'd happily respond MMGS III, knowing very well, retirement is the defining moment for all employees from the Chairman to the lowest. 

Then we are all pensioners. The pensioners survive on the magnanimity and kindness of the organisation. There will never be separate queues for the varied categories of the employees after their retirement.

Perhaps the quantum of pension disbursed  would vary in accordance with the position you had bowed out. But as you grow in age your requiremoents also would shrink. The highest and the lowest pension earners may need minimum food only and like that other necessities would be fewer for them in their advancing years. Even if you wish to splurge, you would painfully learn, that splurging would be meaningless. 

I am grateful to all those clever people who had placed a spoke in my elevation to the higher positions of the organisation. 

May they all live long. 

May their tribe balloon in the organisation so that more and more could be debilitated.

I am grateful to them for enabling me to live happily this far.

Future is not mine or theirs.

But they no longer can put me down as they are already down and out.

What matters is not the rank I had retired from, but whether I had come out, with head held high and whether I had made a name for myself in all round efficiency.

That makes it worthwhile to have served the organisation for pretty long a time.