Types of Employees

Life takes a big step and before I realize, I am in the corporate world. Expectation of getting placed in MNCs were ruined by the college time pass department (training and placement department) but got a good company to start my career and now I am experiencing the life of IT employee. I am not doing anything special like coding or deployment or administrating servers and in fact I am not even doing any technical work.

In this brief time, I have experienced many things which will surely help me in future. First thing that I learned is that employees can be classified into three types i.e. doers, push-to-do, and chewing-gums. You will never find these kinds of classification in any books and hence I am describing them briefly. The doers are self-motivating workaholic types of person who always want work and if you closely observe then you feel that they are contributing more than 40 percent to total productivity. 

Second kinds of peoples are those who require a push to do something. This push may be pressure or jealousy or money or any other thing. They will not show their talent as they think it can lead to exploitation. Third kinds of people are special employees who got placed due to their contacts and hence avoid working. They are like chewing gums for the company and company desperately wants to get rid of them. I worked with all of them and I finally able to learn few things –

First I learn how to finish work well in time with a vision that it will give more time for personal skill development. Obviously, I learnt it from first type.  Then I learn the art of procrastination and crisis management from second type. Finally, I learnt the most important lesson i.e. always maintain contact as it will make your life easy. No matter how small or how big the company is you will find these employees. If you are having these creatures around you and if you are getting irritated by their work then always remember that you can learn few things from them as well. Sometimes the things are not-to-do kind of.  I hope I would learn from these environments so that I can clearly define what to do and what not to do.