By : Kanikaa Dutta
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Good story with old version

There was once a washer man who had a donkey and a dog.

One night when the whole world was sleeping, a thief broke into the house, the washer man was fast asleep but the donkey and the dog were awake.

The dog decided not to bark since the master did not take good care of him and wanted to teach him a lesson.

The donkey got worried and said to the dog that if he doesn't bark, the donkey will have to do something himself. The dog did not change his mind and the donkey started braying loudly.

Hearing the donkey bray, the thief ran away, the master woke up and started beating the donkey for braying in the middle of the night for no reason.

Moral of the story " One must not engage in duties other than his own"

Now take a new look at the same story

The washer man was a well educated man from a premier management institute.

He had the fundas of looking at the bigger picture and thinking out of the box. He was convinced that there must be some reason for the donkey to bray in the night.

He walked outside a little and did some fact finding, applied a bottom up approach, figured out from the ground realities that there was a thief who broke in and the donkey only wanted to alert him about it.

Looking at the donkey's extra initiative and going beyond the call of the duty, he rewarded him with lot of hay and other perks and became his favorite pet.

The dog's life didn't change much, except that now the donkey was more motivated in doing the dogs duties as well. In the annual appraisal the dog managed a " meets requirement" Soon the dog realized that the donkey is taking care of his duties and he can enjoy his life sleeping and lazing around.

The donkey was rated as "star performer". The donkey had to live up to his already high performance standards. Soon he was over burdened with work and always under pressure and now is looking for a job rotation

If you have worked in a corporate environment, I am sure you have guessed

the characters of the new story.....:-)

 

 Top Comment : Nitin M Aras   | 5 months ago
Interesting... If we see the corporate culture... even you are donkey of this story.. you may or may not be recognised... but dog of this story will always recognised because he has developed second lead.. Ha.... ha.... haaa...I experienced this...
 
26 comments on "Donkey and Dog...The Old and New Version"
  Commented by  Sri Sai Ganesh Kumar    | 3 days ago
Simulated exellently to the corporate world. An interesting one with the new approach. 
  Commented by  Santosh Sinha    | 3 days ago
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  Commented by  Tarun Mishra    | 3 days ago
nice fables of donkey & dog. Both old and new versions are true in some manner!
  Commented by  kawaljit kaur aka priya    | 3 days ago
corpate revealed -its so compatible with current working enviornment.
  Commented by  madhuri khanduja    | 3 days ago
Amazingly expressed ... loved it.. 
  Commented by  CHANDNANI JOGINDER SINGH    | 3 days ago
Gud Depiction of Corporate Animals :)
Every1 has to pass the phase of Donkey (Employee) in corporate ladder.
And Dog is the Manager in this case. Because i read sum where that, Getting work done from others is management.
  Commented by  Navjeet Sood    | 6 days ago
Thanks Kashif for pushing this in and it was a nice read.
  Commented by  Kashif Billal    | 6 days ago
Absolutely True.
  Commented by  Sujeet Viswakarma    | 6 days ago
Why don't you go through this blog... You might just identify with it.
 
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  Commented by  Sujeet Viswakarma    | 6 days ago
Hi, 

In the current scene, educated Dogs who keep updates of Donkey's work, are assumed as Donkey's Boss. Let's face it, at our level we are all Donkeys, but a level lower, We are sure thought of as DOGS.

lol
:)
  Commented by  Reni sebastian    | 8 days ago
nice one
  Commented by  Esha Johar    | 1 month ago
Nice insight kanikaa, and tony what you said is true it is a competition and we should be smart enough to to do our own activities. 

Thanks for sharing.......
  Commented by  Tony Dsouza    | 2 months ago
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This is a very true story each everyone is facing in todays corporate world.
This is infact a competition and either the dog or a donkey should be smart enough to to do thier own acitivities. 
  Commented by  Veejay Bhatia    | 5 months ago
Nice Insight Kanikaa.
Very apt in this corporate world. Most of us have to go through 'Donkey Work' by some way or the other. :)
  Commented by  Ramakrishna Perumal    | 5 months ago
As true Manager we should find out reasons why dog has not barked. If the reasons are due to management´s negligence then management should rectify their way of working. If the reason´s are due to dog´s laziness then rewarding donkey is no mistake. Management should also try to motivate dog also instead of neglecting dog totally.
  Commented by  Mandeep K. Bajwa    | 5 months ago
Very Interesting......and True...
  Commented by  varsha    | 5 months ago
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Its really interesting.STORY .seeing corporate trend

&yes i do agree.. with moral...or what i can relate is u must have defined job responsibilities. ....den u will give 100% to organization...
  Commented by  Amit Alok    | 5 months ago
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hi kanika,

Its true but donnt forget about the perks ( rewards ).
in corporate world one must be donkey and another is dog .
the thing is we all work for perks .

I prefer not doing others jobs but if i get extra perks whats worng to doing extra job.

we all work for money and we sell our skills , experiance, our time.


 
  Commented by  Kameshwar Rao    | 5 months ago
Interesting Mr .Kanika, but its the real fact.
  Commented by  SB DIKSHIT    | 5 months ago
Experts are always treated as donkeys,while others who are dogs as per story are always dogs,
Gives teaching not showoff that u can perform others duty very well.
  Commented by  Charles davison    | 5 months ago
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Mr Aras ,Thats what they call DOGS LIFE
  Commented by  Manisha Chakravarty    | 5 months ago
Good one! I guess all in the corporate world will surely agree.  One(donkey aka aam janta) has to do both the dog as well as the donkey's work while the dog (the boss) enjoys all the perks and lazes around! 
  Commented by  Gargi Sinha    | 5 months ago
Hahaha...nice joke Kanika...very funny...even we can see these things nowadays in our corporate culture...
  Commented by  Nitin M Aras    | 5 months ago
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Interesting... If we see the corporate culture... even you are donkey of this story.. you may or may not be recognised... but dog of this story will always recognised because he has developed second lead..

Ha.... ha.... haaa...I experienced this situation in my life... I was the donkey always and my boss was the dog always ... as usual.
  Commented by  Alka Thakur    | 5 months ago
Sahi hai!!
  Commented by  Charles davison    | 5 months ago
Yes any one working in the corporate will agree he/she is the donkey!! True of course.
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