Category Career Growth

The meeting had already crossed one hour. Nobody knew why they were still there. A manager kept saying phrases like: Meanwhile half the employees stared at tiny versions of their own exhausted faces inside Microsoft Teams. One guy silently muted himself and started eating biscuits. Another pretended to take notes while browsing apartment listings because he had mentally resigned three months ago already. This is the part nobody tells students before they enter corporate life:…

The panic usually begins around Class 9. That’s when Indian schools quietly divide students into categories without officially saying it out loud. The “smart” students start getting pushed toward science coaching. Teachers suddenly become extra polite to kids scoring above 90 in maths. Relatives begin asking irritating questions during weddings. “Engineering or medical?” Meanwhile, students struggling with algebra slowly develop a strange kind of shame. Not dramatic shame. A quieter version. The kind where you…

The strange thing about Indian offices is that nobody officially says extroverts are superior. But everybody behaves like they are. You notice it slowly. The loudest person in meetings gets remembered. The employee who keeps talking to managers during lunch somehow becomes “leadership material.” The guy who says “Good morning sirrrr” with unnecessary energy every single day gets promoted before the quiet employee who actually fixed half the team’s problems. And after a while, introverts…