Three pahases of an employee

It is often said that if you get a job in a corporate you are settled for Life. They give you every thing that you aspire for. Money & Position no more remain a dream. Corporates are known for their pampering. The mere walk into the office, personalized cubical, state of the art facility would fill your heart with joy & pride. However, this lasts only till the time you don’t have any work.
When an individual joins a corporate he is considered to be most productive & as he is at the first Phase of Conscious Incompetence. The employee at this stage is using a shared computer and has no permanent seat. He follows what they call the “SLA” (Service Level Agreement) & his manager really has to struggle for a seat & computer. Because the employee is in his dream company he wants to payback as soon as possible. The employee at this stage is full of energy & vigor. His ideas however remains unproductive for the organization. So he is allowed to pass his time tasting all kinds of tea and coffee, working out in the gym & playing Table Tennis & billiards.
Then this employee enters the second phase called the Conscious Competence. By this time the employee has settled in his cozy cubical & with his personalized computer or laptop. He has also got bored drinking the same old coffee & Soup. He is straight away put into training & is now expected to deliver results. And gradually the Corporates expectation from the employee start increasing, so much so that they take a different shape altogether. The competent employee wants to bring all his ideas to the table but time & again is shown a red flag for COST CUTTING. Since the employee is very well trained he tries to run the show by giving maximum input with limited resources but over a period of time starts missing those extended tea breaks & TT matches.
There after he enters the third phase of Unconscious Competence. The employee knows what is expected out of him. Breaks shrink, work & pressure from the boss & the corporate start increasing. By this time the employee knows his job pretty well & monotony breaks in. The very same place that looked awesome and “my kind of Place” becomes a prison. The employee starts giving hints to the manager about incentives, growth & reminds him of the donkey & the carrot story….but nothing happens as the appraisal year is still not finished and most of the employees indulge in to GRAPEVINE.
Finally the employee enters the last stage of maturity is called the Corporate Detachment. He no longer sees any thrill to come to office & Monday blues extend to weekdays blues. Words like ownership, accountability & responsibility become meaningless. He feels frustrate with his job & ignored by all.This is the time when he starts looking for a new job, a new role, a new environment.
My recommendation to you would be not to follow this rat race of being employed by a corporate because then this cycle would never end. In order to end it, find the real meaning in your life. Know what you were born for. Find out the real passion in you & what would you like to be remembered as when you die. Just an employee to a corporate or do you have more to you?