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16 Dec 2022 12:33

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Can't apply the famous ABC technique nowadays

Members! Do you know what is ABC technique? Of course, you know! Because this is a very useful technique generally applied by all in workplaces. Now, let me explain the ABC technique for the uninitiated.

A in ABC technique stands for AVOID. This means: Avoid the work.
B in this technique stands for BLAME. This signifies: Blame others for mistakes/failure.
C in this technique stands for CONFUSE. This indicates: Confuse all using technical jargon/bombastic words.

As I said earlier, this is a well-known technique. But, I have noticed that since 2014, I am not being able to apply the famous ABC technique in the workplace. The work culture in Government offices has changed drastically during these 8 years.

Now, what about you? Do you and can you apply this technique in your workplace nowadays?

#767720

16 Dec 2022 12:48

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Nice perspective of praising on the effect of working culture after 2014 and nice to know that.

shasthranaam Ganitham moordhanisthitham

#767726

16 Dec 2022 13:50

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Partha, you have made a very correct observation. There has been a phenomenal change and some improvement in the government and public sector offices. People have become cautious and are not using tricks to avoid work or create confusion.
Many official things are being done by online methods and government offices are using many application and platforms for communication and helping the general public.
There are still some dishonest and corrupt elements working in the government sector and once these people are identified and punished, system will become more transparent and more cordial to the public.
Let us hope that the hilarious ABC technique mentioned by you in this post will not be found anywhere in the workplaces in our country. That will of course eventually lead the country to progress and prosperity.

Knowledge is power.

#767729

16 Dec 2022 14:17

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Only inefficient employees who do not know how to do the work will try to avoid work. They try to blame others for their own mistakes. Confusion occurs when an employee does not know how to do the work. Any sincere employee will try to do the job as efficiently as he or she can. They take others' help when in doubt. It is the attitude of the employee that reflects efficiency.

" Be Good and Do Good "

#767732

16 Dec 2022 14:40

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#767729:

ABC technique is very well-known technique implemented by all during their working life, either partially or fully.

"Only inefficient employees who do not know how to do the work......... bla bla bla.......": That is not the issue for discussion in this post.

The question for discussion is: "Do you and can you apply this technique in your workplace nowadays?" Can you do it after 2014 in your workplace?

(a) Those who have forgotten Noakhali, how can they protest Sandeshkhali?
(b) Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. ---------- Salvador Dali

#767736

16 Dec 2022 15:03

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I never worked in any government office. My career entirely is in the private sector only. If we apply this ABC technique, the management will show the exit door to the employee. So I have not seen this concept in any of the organisations I worked for.
I have interacted with some government offices earlier and I find many people not completing the work as promised. When I ask they used to blame their boss or their subordinates as reasons for not completing the work. If we insist on them they will start asking us unrelated questions and confuse us and make us believe that the delay is because of some mistakes committed by us.
Recently I have not interacted with any government office and hence I am not aware of the changes. It is good to know there are good changes in the attitude of the employees.

drrao
always confident

#767737

16 Dec 2022 15:11

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I got it. It is something like Before Christ (BC) and After Death (AD). ABC technique was used by many before 2014 (because that is what is being stressed) and is still used by many in the government offices. The mode of putting them into use might have changed due to different factors but it would be wrong to state that it is no longer used. One should go to offices at the lower levels to experience whether ABC technique is still practiced. I think A or avoid might have taken a back seat due to the change in the work culture and that started well before 2014, at least from 1996, but B for blame and C for confuse has gained momentum now, at all levels.

'Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all'.
-Aristotle

#767740

16 Dec 2022 15:45

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I've had a good experience with government personnel of the telephone department for many years now whenever I have had to contact them, and not just since 2014. The work is not avoided, there are no occurrences of blame games, and no confusion in communicating the problem and the solution. Same with personnel that gives us service for various utilities. They may have not fixed the issue right away and there may have been a slight delay (you could call that avoiding the work to be done!), but that was not a frequent occurrence at all.

Do you and can you apply this technique in your workplace nowadays? - No; neither earlier prior to that specific year mentioned, nor now.

When you make a commitment, you create hope. When you keep a commitment you create trust! ~ John C. Maxwell

#767741

16 Dec 2022 16:19

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It appears that almost all ISC-ians are true karmayogis. Only Partha K. is a notable exception.

(a) Those who have forgotten Noakhali, how can they protest Sandeshkhali?
(b) Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. ---------- Salvador Dali

#767744

16 Dec 2022 17:41

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Whatever the author has indicated was prevalent in our steel organisation where I could see the prevalence of such situations. There were crane operators in our section supposed to remain on the crane for the effective disposal of materials from one point to the other for the smooth functioning of the department. They were important to us for the speedy disposal of the materials through wagons to the different customers. Here A rule applied signifying that that they avoided the managers in carrying out their jobs.
Blame game,too, prevailed when the subordinates were in the habits of pin pointing the faults of other agencies for the low despatch including the late supply of wagons. But in the hours of need, they absconded themselves from the site when they were required.
Bosses were there to confuse us time to time regarding the revised targets. Hence I became the master of this culture later.

#767752

16 Dec 2022 23:57

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I don't think the famous technique is applicable to me since I am not in a government job. I do not know whether the work culture in the government offices changed or not but my thanks to the author for making it public that he used to apply that famous ABC technique, like his colleagues in other departments, earlier. This is really a frank confession that he used to do something wrong and nowadays does not get a chance to do it in the same wrong way. Well, if everybody follows in the same way I hope we will soon become a developed nation where every worker performs her/his duty perfectly.

Here I would like to add something interesting. I do not see the activities of politicians changed in this regard of following the ABC technique. Most of them still Avoid the public after getting elected, they continuously Blame the opposition (in the case of opposition leaders they blame the government) and they always Confuse the public with misleading information. We wish this to change also, though I admit this is not a part of the discussion here.

Sankalan

"Life is easier when you enjoy what you do"

#767753

17 Dec 2022 06:38

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It appears from the responses of many members that in private sector, the employees haven't even heard about this technique. But this is not the real picture. I clearly state that this technique is applicable in private sector also.

(a) Those who have forgotten Noakhali, how can they protest Sandeshkhali?
(b) Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. ---------- Salvador Dali

#767765

17 Dec 2022 13:10

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I am also in a private sector but my job is frequently contacting Government and Government related sectors people. As told by Dr. Rao, the application of ABC technique is very minimum in private sector. In our company the work was a continuous process, so the employee in one section follow ABC, it automatically hampers other section employees' routine so it reached the head of other department/section though the head of the section/department where in the ABC followed could not noticed. However it is not correct to apply ABC in any office or company or organization irrespective of size employees.

Can't apply the famous ABC technique nowadays

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