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Line and Problem ideology

You may have come across this riddle sometime in your life, “You draw a line, without touching it how you make the line longer?” Answer is,” You draw a shorter line next to it, and it becomes the longer line.” On 2 nd August, 2018 I was sitting across my boss’s (Pramod Sir) table. Frustrated, I told him, “I need a 1 month unpaid break. I am unable to make justice to all the work responsibilities I currently have. My circumstances have changed. I need time to think.” I felt a sigh of relief as I vented out my thoughts, choking me from many days. Now the ball was in boss’s court. How would he react? Meanwhile, I could hear my mind screaming, heart pounding. “You fool, what do you think of yourself? What are you demanding? This is a professional company and it has some set of rules which we all have agreed upon. You ought to be fired for such unpractical demands.” “Don’t pick a job, pick a boss”, they say. This is what I heard, when Boss said, “Okay, Gran...