Conceptual outlook

I am not quite sure, if the caption is 'appropriate' (in the sense in which I had meant it to be!) :(

Our very outlook, our very attitude, ... if it is accompanied by the 'look out' for the concepts involved in what we look-at... as a situation... on our outside,
then,
may be our very outlook turns a little conceptual (as compared to other life forms which merely respond to 'perceptional-instincts' , which is also quite valid, when survival, self-preservation etc are synchronised-designs of the 'nature'/prakruti... that had designed them thus! We humans have the potential to make a conscious-choice about everything... whether such choice turns sacrificial, or one-that-of a greed is our individualistic choice!)

I guess, a very recent discussion that took place on a closed-forum, would perhaps... help to understand what I had exactly intended to convey :)

Yes, since it contains my own experience at the work place from where I had re-tyred/retired, I guess, it adds to 'practicability' too, ... to some extent :)


quote:
"New development observed in PNB ATM machine.
6 digit OTP also required for withdrawals, as soon PNB card inserted, OTP generated and received on registered mobile number."

There was a comment on this news:
Does it mean that to use PNB ATM Cards, you MUST have a mobile on hand ? What happens if one does not have a mobile, or if there is no network, no charge or simply if the SMS is not received? They are complicating a convenience in the name of security.

My response:
If many feel thus...
some via-media may emerge... (like asking that OTP only if withdrawal is above 1000)
reply
Sir, amount is not the criteria. If a person cannot withdraw his money at the time of need due to any reason, it is useless. It is time that more than one alternative is put in place.

My response(to the reply):
Yes!
I agree in totality... (amount is not the criteria)...

Need has always been the criteria ...It is only the lack of recognition of the "need" on the part of the person 'holding' the amount, that poses 'social-problems' :)

A rich person (with abundant surplus savings, ) has to see the 'need' of the situation like an earthquake/tsunami, and has to loosen his purse-strings, and allow at least a small trickle to reach the impoverished-in-deep-distress :)

We bankers are mere-custodians! Our response-ability ...
ideally... ought to be far-more than those paise-waalas :)

The same concept (of that of.... ATM)...
I was a little fortunate to grasp when I had tiny-powers (just a special assistant ... they call 'special Ass'! :)
It so happened, that the signatory of a 'rich' CD a/c left for outstation without leaving a signed leaf of a cheque to meet the weekly wages of workers at his factory. Manager tried to plead with 'officers' to allow a 'withdrawal' (like ATM, which lacks the authenticity of a cheque presented by drawer of an a/c :) )...
I happened to be a little more-familiar with conduct of account, and decided to take a 'risk'... I asked that manager to sign , plus a letter explaining the 'situation', .. I paid, as an 'official' though-not-an-officer!..
later the owner ratified my action, substantiated and "categorically" authenticated my 'illegal' action with a generous dose of gratitude ...

On another occasion, we used a 'double-blink' of eye-lid as a symbol (which the true meaning of a signature), of approving a withdrawal, when the signatory was bed-ridden+incapacitated! (yes, bank's lawyer, a notary, a medico, etc attested that 'drama' to document it as an evidence, just-in-case of any eventuality of a subsequent litigation!)...

Like you said, 'need' is of utmost priority!
(there is a saying "for want of a horse-shoe, a Kingdom was lost" :)

I am sorry, if this response turned a little too-long!
(my colleagues... so, the temptation to agree+share was too-strong :) )
regards,
psn

unquote:

conceptually yours,
psn (27th June, 2016)

Response-Ability

Very recently, I was inducted into a group in the social media platform, which comprised of a homogeneous mixture of people, though they hailed from a thoroughly heterogeneous background...

The grooming was 'unto-becoming' a homogeneous kind, and for good...

Modern terminology calls it 'work-culture'.. it depends on how that work place views, the 'nurturing of employee's attitude' to be shaped, whereby, ... that organisation ensures its own growth only-through-the-growth of its customers :)

And so ,
the upper most of my thoughts started re-living those incidents at work place, which I felt were quite precious-to-me...

That sense of Response-ability.. got hammered into me within about 2 or 3 days of my joining duty... (the story is 40 + years old)...

“A-p-o-l-o-g-i-z-e”.... ordered the branch secretary of worker's union to me (I was supposed to become a member of this very union, when my services will get 'confirmed' after the probation).

I was to say, “I apologise” to an elderly person, of the subordinate category ....
As a fresher, I would have said those 'holy-words' even without so much of that 'thundering-voice'..

I was so used to being 'pushed-around' by any elder, right from the kid age (the family being large, now-called as 'joint')... I had long abandoned that urge to find out a 'why-so' when somebody orders me about, or inflicts a minor punishment... Mostly it was the only way they reassure themselves of their own presence-being-felt :)

I just reeled out that apology (and yes, that leader/neta ensured that quite a few of other staff too had got to-notice my act of 'tendering-unconditional-apology!'...

My personal-tragedy was, I didn't know why I was being asked to say it out ... (this song too was a little cruel, when it came too late for me... “aisa kya gunah kiya”... Hindi movie, 'Hum dil de chuke sanam')

I would have almost forgotten the whole incident ,
but for ...
what happened subsequently. :)

That leader was dragged towards me, and was forced to repeat an apology to me, by the 'recipient' of my apology :-))
This was something that I never expected !

That 'repeat' of apology... was supposed to be a 'full-refund' like , for something not fulfilled (cinema ticket refunded , when those 'reels' of that movie didn't arrive, etc)...

Now, two tragedies for me... First apology and Second apology... reasons unknown!

I decided, that this 'elderly-subStaff' was 'bound-to-be' a good-man, (that forced refund wala gesture)... and asked him 'What is this all about?'

He explained: “See, ... I am the inferior-most among the class of workers... sub-staff... and yet these people, have unanimously decided , not-to-tell any work to me!... You, in all innocence being a fresher, asked me to fetch that subsidiary book, to record the summary of voucher-transactions of the day... I am meant to be told that work, and what you did was perfectly-in-order... Just that it didn't suit the 'unanimous' decision of these guys to boycott-me from being told any work!.. You were not-even-told of such arrangement!!! That was their-fault, and I nailed them on that, to extract an apology from that fellow!”

He did not elaborate any further...

Over a few days, I made it a point to carefully observe this 'elder'...
Nobody told him any work... Even the official-record where 'allocation-of-work' is written up, failed to mention his name...
But he worked quite incessantly, and tirelessly....
The suspense doubled when I saw, even-regular-customers of that branch gave the same-treatment (no work shall be told to you—wala) !!

He was almost about to retire in a few months...

I had to be very sure, that I really got to the bottom of his 'ailment' (for being singled out thus!)...
I did manage.
He was a clear case of 'ability to respond'...
Then, where is the need to be told, “do-this, and do-that' ?... (Arey, .... that auto-pilot syshtim/system, in a modern aeroplane is just that! It responds to what the 200 dials says... Pilot/s can go to sleep/coffee-parlour/toilet/etc... )

What was meant to be an 'insult' , and then a learning for me.. turned out to be the most precious of lessons, taught in an unforgettable way :)..
I just joined the band-wagon of those who decided , not to tell-him any work... (I even tried to help him with whatever he-picked to do... anyway, I was a super-numerary-clerk, waiting to be thrown at a 'genuine-vacancy' at a remote village :-)... But that 'dada'/elder, would plead, 'no, at least not you!'...). I almost got 'adopted' as his own kid, while at work !

(That 'guy' might have been smiling from 'upstairs' for some recent-two decades... He inflicted me with his dis-ease, quite significantly... I couldn't help 'responding' to work that I felt, I had the ability to do )

Apologetically yours,
psn(15th June, 2015)

post script:
I had to omit names from this story... to make it ....'admirable' in large-scale, while the same thing, with names might become monstrous in small-scale (the movie “Night of the Generals”, Actor Omar-Sherrif's dialogue about 'murder'... “what is admirable in large scale is monstrous in small”).

Exact-Change!

“Tender exact change” is not a new or a latest legend written at public places like ticket-counters of railway, bus-station etc..

It might amuse the youngsters of present day, in India, if I say that when I was a kid of 6, and till my-15... people were keen to avoid giving out that 'exact-change', especially at places where others have the luxury of staring at 'how this fellow dispenses cash'... Somebody giving the exact-change is by 'default' regarded as a person who just-managed/barely-managed the amount needed to get that commodity {with a cinema ticket, it turns a little 'humiliating' too, when it seems to convey the meaning that he can't afford the next-higher class! And if at all, somebody pays the 'exact-change' for the highest class, the insult is at-its-worst, because the 'popular meaning' is... 'once in a life-time for him! :-)) ...}

It is only when people started saying a 'thank you sir', when I give out exact-change now...
that I realised the 'latent'(or subtle) significance of it...

small coins carry no value, except that of a 'nuisance'.. (what we call as 'nuisance-value' !)...

Most people don't mind if the 'balance' is not handed over back...
That makes the 'insult' or 'humiliation' to turn the 'other-way' now :-)) ... Somebody who insists for a refund of 'small' coin out of say Rs.10/- (anything below Rs.5/- is looked at as a 'nuisance-himself'...!)

When a one-rupee coin can't by anything... {by the way... 50-paise coin is still a legal-tender :-))...}... the attitude is “why is this idiot causing nuisance for that coin to be refunded?”..

I know... the memories of those who are above 50 would by now be flooded with so-many-thing they had bought with coins of 1-paise, two-paise, 3-paise and even 5-paise!

“Speak/reply ... to-the-point”
is the emphasis on the volley of advices 'tendered' to a prospective candidate going for a job-interview, or an 'admission-interview'...

Tendering 'exact' words too... made a lot of sense in the ancient days!
People attributed a lot of value to each spoken word...
When 'many do this'... without any 'dictum' from any union, association, or a religion like thing, the phenomenon is that of a 'Unison'... (a crude form of the 'subtle-sense' of the word called Yoga, Unity)...

Today, even an advocate, a vakil, who is 'supposed' to have practiced, tested-for, qualified to speak only and only-to-the-point (that is what the so called 'civil-procedure-code' is mostly-about )... even there, the Judge is unable to 'apply' his mind judiciously, before delivering the judgement... and it is perhaps therefore that Judges prefer to 'hear' by 'case-laws' rather than by enacted-sections of codified law!

Now ,
what about 'exact-change' that a mind is supposed to deliver to us, when our life demands a fast-pace on the outside?
That stupid-stupid thing that a salesperson is selling to us, seems to pose a huge threat, not because the thing being sold is 'so-complex' or it's use-even... Just that we aren't receptive enough to look-out for the 'exact-change' that we want, and we end up buying 'old-stock' , higher-MRP wala from the pick-up shelf (for the same stuff)... a loosely packed thing with some drain hole somewhere... etc..

Are we not struggling for an 'exact-change', when even simple words like love, trust, honesty, etc brings a wide-spectrum of conflicting and confusing meanings churned out by our own mind?...

Now (in... the present day scenario)... the exactitude is trying to vie around only slang acronyms like LoL, ROFL, KFPH... etc (where some remnants of exact can be seen... make it into a group of words, and we scramble for that grammatical rule of a sentence, being a group of words that makes 'complete sense'... we need a few-sentences, to get the sense of what used to be a small-and-single sentence!)

Spiritual business seems to be the one, of the most 'exacting-standards' when even the perception is needed to be an 'exact-change' while receiving inputs! {otherwise, keep counting the 'change/s' for quite a few life-times! :-)) }

Exactly yours,

psn ( 12th of June, 2016)

Starting trouble :-))

It does look like a simple phrase... it gives an illusion that once that trouble is over, 'everything else' is going to be okay!

Maybe so, about some gadget... or a mechanical equipment like the engine of a vehicle, or a motor pump-set that can't prime by itself, before it delivers water vertically, etc....

Human beings ?
The moment we step into a 'civilised' society... the civility causes a few unintended side-effects.
The very theme or concept of 'civility' when it started focusing more on providing more and more of comfort zones, rather than safeguarding the individuals from a collective threat (like unfettered traffic, holding up a feeble oldie for too long from crossing over to the other side of a street), or an individual's eccentricities causing a nuisance to others collectively (singing a song too loudly, with utter lack of harmony, at mid night on a densely populated street)... etc..

The effect of these comfort zones is gradual and over a period of time...
We feel it perfectly okay to get-started a bit late on a 'non-working' day, called Sunday...
Only that the stomach is unaware of such 'civilised' protocols, and it gives the alarm 'as-usual' :-))

It is the 'starting-trouble' of women folk that gets unduly magnified, when it is their destined-response-ability, to churn out the raw materials in a kitchen into an edible form at the shortest possible time (the phrase, 'two-minute-noodles'... gets its popularity, only-and-only due to this crucial-factor!... Doesn't matter, whatever else gets sacrificed, ... be it even the health of the children!)...

When health gets imbalanced, due to subordinate-functions that we deploy into, our organs and limbs, than its main intended ones... (of course, a 'big-thanks' to the tireless+endless scientific advancement, and the efforts engaged into , to translate the bulk of our innovations and creativity to evolve better and newer gadgets towards that-direction)... the society seems to lose sight of its very purpose of 'grouping-together' (religāre )... and we individuals end up with a physique that churns out strange and bizarre kinds of ailments... The 'steadiest' growth of ailments (to me), seems to be directed into accentuating that starting trouble..

By the time we really get started with a 'new year resolution', and reach its full-running-capacity, it is already the end of that-year, and our civility demands a 'renewal' of it afresh!

What if the starting trouble is handled forcibly?

The lady of the house, for example, ... goes through the morning routine, under a great stress ... and spends the entire-rest-of-the-day... trying hard to get relieved of that stress :-))

(Some other lady... for example... decides to avoid that stress.... goes a bit slow in getting started... ends up with peak engine-power at a very wrong time, often into late night :-))

In nature.... some creatures like birds... start up their cold-engines, a little ahead of time.. Birds, start chirping around say 4 am.. if the day-break is at 6 am... But that cannot be classified as their-antidote for their-starting-trouble... It is just that their body-weight and wing-span do not match (aerodynamics)... and therefore, they do a 'Yoga-business' which lightens their body temporarily, and as-and-when required, they make that noise, with a bellow-action from belly :-))

Spiritual masters do give concession to a 'starter' with slight starting trouble... They prescribe a thorough overhauling of the body and mind! Maybe that is why a few enthusiasts, who disdain such 'mauling' of their body and mind.... assert that they prefer to 'make it' without a physical-guru !

We are 'blessed' enough... that we do not have any 'ending trouble at all'... Unlike other life forms, we humans are quite 'over-civilised' ... enough to end our troubles-itself, by ending ourselves well-ahead of 'schedule' :-))

endlessly yours,

(just to avoid my own starting-trouble)

psn (11th June, 2016)