Your New Year begins today

After all, there is no shortage of excuses for taking leave

Shyamal Majumdar 

Shyamal Majumdar It’s early morning on the 29th of December, all cosy and warm in the bed and you just can’t think of submitting yourself to the pain of your work.

After all, it’s a matter of just a day’s off as the next three days are anyway ‘holidays’. But just one person is standing in the way of your exercising the right to bunk office so close to the New Year.  That person happens to be your boss, who according to officegoers across the world is a bully, intrusive, controlling, picky and petty creature. So what do you tell him? After all, it has to ...

First Published: Thu, December 28 2017. 22:40 IST