Being yelled at by your boss in front of everyone can be a challenging situation to handle. It feels like all eyes are on you, judging and pitying. Your face turns red, and you want to disappear. It’s embarrassing, and you feel small and worthless. The words from the boss sting, making you doubt your abilities. Your coworkers look away, uncomfortable, not knowing how to help. It’s demoralizing and makes you dread coming to work.
However, a woman named Akshita came up with a brilliant idea to avoid getting yelled at by her boss. She revealed that at her previous company, her boss used to yell at everyone in Hindi. So, she told the boss that she doesn’t know Hindi as she is from Chennai and knows how to speak Tamil. So the boss had to switch to English while yelling at her and hence, she got yelled at less than the others!
“The founder of the previous company I worked for used to yell at everybody in Hindi. So I told them I didn’t know Hindi cause I’m from Chennai (Tamilian). So they had to switch to English to yell at me each time and I got yelled at way lesser than other folks because of this,” she wrote.
Have a look at her post here:
The founder of the previous company I worked for used to yell at everybody in Hindi.
So I told them I didn’t know Hindi cause I’m from Chennai (Tamilian).So they had to switch to English to yell at me each time and I got yelled at way lesser than other folks because of this.
— Akshita (@akshita1520) May 31, 2024
Turns out, she isn’t the only one who uses this hack. Several people use the language barrier to escape uncomfortable and taxing situations! Have a look:
I do this every day.
I patiently wait for people to completely explain the requirements. Once they finish, I tell them I don’t understand their language and they’ll have to repeat it in English.— Balaji Kasiraj (@Balaji_kasiraj) May 31, 2024
Whenever I’m in Chennai or Bangalore, I pretend as if I don’t know Tamil or kannada , it’s a unique pleasure when they talk about me & I play dumb.
— Siddharth Dwivedi (@Naamhaisidu) May 31, 2024
I got the same results in my college by telling my teachers that I don’t know Tamil.
Divided by language ? united by ideas
— Siddhesh Agarwal (@Siddhesh0205) May 31, 2024
Haha
I did the reverse. Folks assumed I didn’t know Tamil when I was working in Chennai. I didn’t bother to correct them. Had fun listening to the inside scoop from on-site team (they’d put it on speaker and chitchat) and full gossip for over 3-4 months before they figured out ?— Natasha ? (@thebokettogirl) June 1, 2024
That’s nothing. I attended an entire meeting which happened in Hindi and in the end i said can you repeat in English since i don’t know Hindi. The looks on their face ?
— Rohith (@bisifilterkaapi) May 31, 2024
Modern problems require modern solutions, I guess! 😛