The Big Boss

Don’t worry; I am not promoting any T.V. Reality show here. After couple of postings on topics like education and environment, I thought of writing something on ‘THOSE FOUR GUYS’, hope you ‘ve got it if you are following my blog on a regular basis. Right you are, I am talking about, Dipak, Sekhu, Amal and Taj. Today, I would be introducing you with another character, who was closely attached to these four. He was also an employee of the stock broking firm, where these four had their source of living. Mr. Arijit Purukayastya was his name, tall was he and dark too; ideal to call TDH (Tall Dark Handsome), but he was not able to utilize these traits of his on girls as he was married.

Mr. Purukayastya was the brand manager of the company and was the reporting head of Amal. Despite being in separate departments, the other three were close to Purukayastya. The Brand Manager’s cabin often turned into a clubroom when the CEO was out of the office premises. Discussion and debates on varied topics were their sole medium of time-pass, as they did not have much work to do. The Lunch break was scheduled at 1 p.m., but for them it started at 12 p.m. Mr. Purukayastya was a gourmet and so was Taj. Zomo Hut was the nearest eatery and its business flourished because of the two, despite bringing lunch boxes, Purukayastya and Taj ordered something or the other from this eatery almost everyday.

As mentioned earlier, Taj, Dipak, Amal and Sekhu always wanted to go against stupid social norms, at every point of time they challenged these norms. Moreover, they were against any corruption and illicit activities that are often seen in offices. Their office was also not an exception, nepotism was a brand there. It was a common instance very much prevalent there that in order to go up in designation, cajoling one’s boss was the ultimatum. The FOUR was definitely against such practice, and so was Mr. Purukayastya. Being a Brand manager and the reporting head of few guys, he protested against such menace in the office. May be this was a common attribute between the FOUR and Purukayastya, which helped them to get gelled with each other. Another thing was in common, their tender behaviour, could not bare the pains, specially if any deprived people were involved. In this regard, let me narrate an incident. Shomenath was a Group D staff in the office and was also the driver of the Research Head of the company, Mr. Pradip Hazra, unofficially. It was Shomenath’s duty to bring Mr. Hazra to office and then to serve the morning tea to all on the fourth floor. Let me add an important piece of information here, Mr. Hazra was very very close to the CEO and was expert in cajoling him and therefore he had a strong voice in the office.

One Day Mr. Hazra entered his cabin and asked Shomenath to go to the post office for a work. Shomenath did not refuse but he thought of serving the morning tea first as the office was his original paymaster and not Mr. Hazra. This delay of his was intolerable to Hazra; he howled at him and threatened to terminate him from his job. Shomenath was quiet and was the opinion that he did not do anything wrong as his task was for the office and was not a personal servant of Mr. Hazra. The Research Head was furious with such an attitude of Shomenath. The whole conversation was heard by the four and Mr. Purukayastya. As the latter was at par with Mr. Hazra in designation, he tried to console him and wanted to end the fight. Shomenath took a firm position and stuck to his decision, but was worried of losing the job. He was brought into the cabin of Purukayastya and was given an assurance that his job would be safe. After he left the cabin, the FOUR and Purukayastya had a long conversation among themselves on the incident. They were really disheartened at Hazra’s behavior. Hazra was the reporting head for Taj, Dipak and Sekhu; these three lost all their respect towards this man from that day onwards. The FOUR requested Purukayastya to speak to Hazra for not terminating Shomenath. Shomenath’s job was secured and he was made the personal assistant of Purukayastya. Since that day, the four named Purukayastya as the 'Big Boss'.