
Officer: While entering the office premises. Hey! Put aside your long broom and let me enter the building.
Akram: Jee Sahib.
Officer: Why don’t you come early in the wee hours and clean the office before we arrive?
Akram: Sahib, I try the best and reach quite early but its large office and takes time to clean it completely. He follows the officer into the office room.
Officer: I’ve noticed that you don’t take the work seriously. Corners of the rooms and stairs always remain stained with colored spitting. When would you remove the PAAN KEE PEEKEN?
Akram: Sahib! I always rub the walls and floors but its relentless job. Why can’t all of you give up chewing the PAAN?
Officer: Shut up! Do your work.
Akram: Sahib! I’m matriculate. Can you please help me getting a respectable job like peon, chowkidar, driver or a clerk? I don’t like working as a sanitary worker. I can easily do what all others do here like coming late, taking cup of tea every now and then, reading newspapers, passing comments on the news, gossip, and relocating the files from one table to other.
Sir, one thing I can’t do that you all frequently do.
Officer: What’s that?
Akram: Backbiting of senior staff.
Officer: BAKWAAS BUND KARO. You are destined to do what you have been doing.
Akram: Sir, may I ask something?
Officer: Hurry up! I’ve to begin working.
Akram: Sir, who does the cleaning in the US and Europe?
Officer: Immigrants, like Africans, South Americans, and some Asians too.
Akram: Sahib! If immigrants work everywhere, why do we do so in our own country?
Officer: You talk too much! Leave the room and let me do my work.
Akram: Sir! Last question. Can I go to Saudi Arabia, in fact Makka for doing the work?
Officer: How come? Non-Muslims are not allowed in Makka.
Akram: Who then sweep the streets, clean the toilets, and carry the garbage?
Officer: Sudanese, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Indian Muslims, etc.
Akram: If Pakistanis do in Makka, in America and Europe, then why can’t they do in their own country?
Sahib smiles sneeringly and says; Because you are cheaply available, because we can exploit your poverty, illiteracy and your inability to switch over to better & respectable vocations.
Akram: Sahib, you can exploit whatever you like but let me reveal to you that we are neither lazy at work nor starving and never go begging for food, cloth and shelter like millions of people do here.
Officer: Shut up and get lost.
Akram: Jee Sahib.
Officer: Why don’t you come early in the wee hours and clean the office before we arrive?
Akram: Sahib, I try the best and reach quite early but its large office and takes time to clean it completely. He follows the officer into the office room.
Officer: I’ve noticed that you don’t take the work seriously. Corners of the rooms and stairs always remain stained with colored spitting. When would you remove the PAAN KEE PEEKEN?
Akram: Sahib! I always rub the walls and floors but its relentless job. Why can’t all of you give up chewing the PAAN?
Officer: Shut up! Do your work.
Akram: Sahib! I’m matriculate. Can you please help me getting a respectable job like peon, chowkidar, driver or a clerk? I don’t like working as a sanitary worker. I can easily do what all others do here like coming late, taking cup of tea every now and then, reading newspapers, passing comments on the news, gossip, and relocating the files from one table to other.
Sir, one thing I can’t do that you all frequently do.
Officer: What’s that?
Akram: Backbiting of senior staff.
Officer: BAKWAAS BUND KARO. You are destined to do what you have been doing.
Akram: Sir, may I ask something?
Officer: Hurry up! I’ve to begin working.
Akram: Sir, who does the cleaning in the US and Europe?
Officer: Immigrants, like Africans, South Americans, and some Asians too.
Akram: Sahib! If immigrants work everywhere, why do we do so in our own country?
Officer: You talk too much! Leave the room and let me do my work.
Akram: Sir! Last question. Can I go to Saudi Arabia, in fact Makka for doing the work?
Officer: How come? Non-Muslims are not allowed in Makka.
Akram: Who then sweep the streets, clean the toilets, and carry the garbage?
Officer: Sudanese, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Indian Muslims, etc.
Akram: If Pakistanis do in Makka, in America and Europe, then why can’t they do in their own country?
Sahib smiles sneeringly and says; Because you are cheaply available, because we can exploit your poverty, illiteracy and your inability to switch over to better & respectable vocations.
Akram: Sahib, you can exploit whatever you like but let me reveal to you that we are neither lazy at work nor starving and never go begging for food, cloth and shelter like millions of people do here.
Officer: Shut up and get lost.
Thot provoking indeed. Just dropped you a longish mail- read it when you have some time.
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I went through your post which is written in the same context under different scenario and characters. Very impressive.
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