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WHATSAPP GROUPS OF OFFICERS: HIGH CHAIRS, LOW TALKS

  • There is a new courtroom in government service. It is not in the Secretariat or the Collectorate. It is the official WhatsApp group.
    Recently, a gentleman in a high position chose to pass negative comments on a retired officer, only to settle an old departmental rivalry. The aim was not to correct, but to defame. This has become a common trend. It is an irony. These are officers who clear thousands of files, who lecture on conduct rules and leadership. But in their own groups, they behave like schoolboys. Instead of setting their own homes in order – many of them carrying broken marriages, divorces, disturbed family ties, personal frustrations – they find satisfaction in harassing a former colleague.
    A retired officer is an easy target. He has no file to sign, no power to retaliate. So the sadistic pleasure is to pull him down in front of juniors to show “I am still powerful.”
    This shows three disturbing realities:1. Position has grown, maturity has not: Getting an IAS, IPS or Group-1 rank needs intelligence. But maturity is not given by UPSC. Some officers never grow beyond their personal insecurities.2. Departmental rivalry has become personal enmity:  Transfers, postings, enquiries – all are official. But carrying it to retirement and defaming someone in a group is not rivalry, it is perversion.

    3. WhatsApp has become a weapon: The groups created for official communication have become gossip clubs. Screenshots are taken, forwards are made, reputations are killed in 2 minutes.

    If you are in a high position and you still need to defame your colleague and a retired man to feel important, then the problem is not with him, it is with your disturbed personal life.
    A truly senior officer ignores. A small mind comments. It is high time the Admins issues clear social media conduct for officers’ groups. Service is judged by how you treat your subordinates, colleagues and retired seniors, not by how many comments you pass sitting in an AC chamber.
    Respect the chair. If you can’t respect the person who sat on it before you, you don’t deserve it either.
    – Kolanu Venkateshwar Reddy
    SP Jails, (Retd.).

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