A Sadist CMD

He was the 5th CMD who joined us. He had a lot of political support at the Center which greased his way to the top post at an young age. He came from a factory and people had difficulty in recognising what product it was manufacturing. He had a shock of his life when he arrived to take charge. He had never seen such gigantic equipment beng manufactured.When he met the executives for the first time he realised that they are more experianced or more qualified than him. He hid his inadequacy by insulting even the most senior person in meetings. So much so that when he called for meetings we used to go fully ready for being insulted. He specially targetted one person who was too soft and he al;most went mad. But if someone defied him he did not know how to handle him. Technically he was incompetent and he was of the firm opinion tha welding electrodes were being coated with cowdung mixed with some chemicals! We were predominantly a welding industry welding varoius types of materials and he just could not understand why we need different types of electrodes for welding different steels! Once when I said that an equipment had developed stress corrossion cracking, he did not understand what I was talking and said"crack is in your head". He wanted me to rectify the defect in one week.When I told him that it can't be done in one week he said " if you can't do I will find some one to do it in one week." The job was so specialised that every one he asked to take the responsibility declined. Finally he called me and asked me how much time I need, I gave a time frame which he accepted tamely . In all this exercise we had lost almost a month.

Finally, he used his politcal connections to get a higher post and he left us. We all left a sigh of relief. His tenure was one of the worst period in our organisation. He destroyed the self confidence of several people