It’s been five months since we had Mirror Mirror on the wall who is the cruelest of them all post. Of late, some of our folks at ToI, real Joe Bloggs they are, seem to have developed a soft corner for the baldie, who was voted as the baddie. In November last we said: Working under him is worse than the Chinese water torture. That’s changed for the better now, our Joes report. All that’s water under the bridge. Nag is now genial and even gives us chocs, gush our Joes.Talk of a tiger hiding its stripes and a leopard its spots!
A bit of digging in helped explain the mystery behind the makeover. Nag has found new ways of deriving pleasure to please his Id. He continues to be on the prowl to victimize scribes but has changed his hunting ground – the victims are not those within the Times House but those who seek an entry into it.
Nag’s new pastime is playing a cat and mouse game with job seekers. The modus operandi – invite them to office, interview them, make positive remarks before winding up the interview and promise to contact them soon. The pleasure game begins now. Every day, the aspirant would wake up hoping to get a call from ToI. He wouldn’t. After days, some of them after weeks, hesitantly call up the Ed. Nag promises action soon. We are on your case, you will hear from us soon. That reassures the aspirant but keeps him on tenterhooks. Nag knows it, feels it, enjoys it!
After days/weeks of silence, the desperate aspirant calls up again. Nag repeats himself, even more reassuringly! All hope is not lost for the aspirant but the unending wait kills him. Nag knows it, feels it, enjoys it! Just when the aspirant reaches the end of his tether and decides to forget a job in ToI, Nag calls. He times it just right, not to end the nightmare but to prolong it with his reassurance: “We are on your case. We will contact you soon.”
This drama will go on for months. Ask the guys who had suffered the pains for nine months after which Nag delivered, the offer letter. Not all are so patient. Take the case of the senior scribe from 36SD Road who went on a long leave after Nag’s first promise of job offer. Two months later he had to resume work, cutting a sorry face at his office.
Close to ten hopeful scribes are currently awaiting offer letters from Nag, not knowing that the Jekyll for insiders is Hyde for wannabes. Don’t be taken in by the slithery man’s smoothness folks. For him, you are just a game.
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4 comments:
Good that you have at last re-focussed on ToI and the top man there.
More can be said about him. Pls look into the story behind his campaign against Passport office. Interesting tale behind it.
Noticed ToI shamelessly rehashing stories from other LOCAL English dailies? Write on that.
Start and you will get my inputs.
Y forget your fav punchbag. Sharma is faculty? As per what norm of the varsity? Revisit him. If info is needed, ask your readers. Good luck.
hi,
nice to hear some one from TOI, coming forward to give in puts. Does those lunatics and voltures continuing, poching and gaming with people there, hiding behind their big seats?
Mr.Nag,
You waged a relentless war against the Regional Passport Office for the delay in clearing passports. Man, you are doing the same. You are sitting on applications and now this blog spilled the beans about your sadistic pleasure in keeping the job aspirants on their tenterhooks. This is unfair, saheb. Remember the early days of your career. Many people know how you came up and who helped you to scale such heights. If you don't lend your hand, how can young journos come up? Aisaa karna, theek nahin hai. Theek hai?
Hey, its strage. How can he take too much time after finishing the interviews? Is he really deriving sadistic pleasure by keeping the aspirants waiting. I can't believe this. What the hell is happening to these so called editors? They should be punished by the managements.
Ramani
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