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Womanising has been rechristened as ‘Dating’..

 

By the way why is it Girls use this term often than Boys?

 

(before you jump the gun, this is my personal view)

 

I was working as a Salesman ,fresh from the College.

 

We were launching a new range of product.

 

(I shall recount my selling experiences later).

 

My Sales Manager was about 35, and a Drunk.He normally carried a bottle oor two in his coat pocket!

 

But he was an exceptionally Good sales person and a Good man , barring his drinking.

 

Whatever I am to day- he is one of the major influences.

 

We had in our Organisation Sales Supervisors, all aged around 40-50.

 

I had a Supervisor.

 

We also had a girl doing the Typing,Accounting and Reception Desk(?)

 

She was from s poor family and was reasonably good-looking.

 

One day when all of us were in the office(sans The Sales Manger,he was in his Cabin) this Supervisor  told her…

 

‘I have two tickets for evening show at the Shanthi Theatre( at Chennai which was owned by the Actor Sivaji Ganesan then and it was a prestigious issue to visit this theatre after Safire and Anand and Midlands theatre”)

 

I am going to the market and I will come pick you up by 5.30.’

 

And he went off without waiting for a reply.

 

After sometime,after all the others had left, the girl went inside the Manger’s cabin and came back after about ten minutes informing me that the Sales Manger wanted to see me.

He told me ‘ you go to the market and come to Office by about 4.30. I want you to be here.”

 

I went about my work and was in the Office by about 4.30 and was sitting in the hall.

 

By 5 pm , the Supervisor came and went into the Sales Manger’s room to submit his report.

 

Immediately, I was called in.

 

The sales manager said..

 

You call her, I want you to see some thing’

 

The girl came into the room and the sales Manager asked her to sit in the chair.

 

Then he went to the Supervisor ‘flashing out two tickets and said..

 

‘I have two tickets for the night show.

 

Send your daughter with me to the film’

 

The supervisor was shocked(he had a daughter of about 15 years)…

 

‘You may be my Sales Manager, you can’t talk that way to me about my daughter’

 

“I see, how can you talk this way to the girl”

Ramanan, now watch’- he removed his shoes and slapped the Supervisor and told him..

 

‘If I ever see you behaving this way in this office or for that matter in Public, I do not what I will do, now get out’

and turning to me..

 

‘This you never forget in your life. I want you to know some values and  to teach this rogue  by humiliating in front of a small boy like  you and went about his routine business.

 

That the Supervisor apologised to the girl and worked in the organisation, with impeccable behaviour is another story.

Note.For my Readers from the West-dating was frowned upon and treated with severe punishment then(early eighties in India.

I have a suspicion that even now some parents who seem to have values follow this)