I am taking this title from Mac D's. Basically from their combo meal offers. Also sometimes I do wonder what strange associations can be formed when you hear a word. Strangely enough "Combo" made me think of Work. Strange rt??
Let me explain further. Combos usually has 2 or more items....items that you usually cant resist, which have ingredients in them that dosent tell you when you are full etc etc. The end conclusion is that they, in some cases do more harm.
Same is probably true for a guy like me and my attitude towards the work I do. I sweat and toil and spend hours at my desk because of a combination of two factors:
1) Pride in the work that I have done, the quality of the work, nature of work itself, recognition, the feeling of being capable of making a difference etc etc.
2) The guilt of not having done enough, especially when you are of a kind that really takes things to heart.
This is what I think. Point 1 is what makes you work while point 2 is how your Boss makes you work.
If you are a sincere person with even an iota of tendency to wonder in the first instance that "I might have done this wrong/ This could be done better/ or such similar thoughts" then your boss will know it instantly. He will let you work till the max of the capacity and when you are through, will act as a critic and ensure that you develop enough guilt to work some more.
And i know this much, as a citic, you can find faults with the best of the work. In corporate scenario, you can come up with a 100 questions on a work done to which the employee will not have a satisfactory answer. Even if employee may have answers to all the questions that can be checked/ verified, there are still a set of questions that are perception based - why 20? why not 100? why this color? language? image? etc etc. All questions designed to make you feel that you dont know enough or have not done enough thus generating guilt and making you go back to your desk and slog again. You really cant win.
Thats why I consider this combo harmful. I have it, I know. And i am trying to figure out how to get out of it.
