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me off. I was new to the style of the staff showing resentment
by collective demonstration through their negotiating body
called Union. So at times when I passed an order which they
thought inimical to their interests they would meet me in a body
led by the Union Secretary. The latter himself a well educated
person who missed the bus to move up the ladder of promotion
in the department chose to vent his resentment by means of
trade union activities offering resistance to anything I attempted
in the best interest of the department. An acid test case arose

when under the personal orders of my PMG the postmen staff
who were seated in a corner of the main hall shared by public
counters had to move to adjoining structure where a hall was
put up for exclusively this purpose. They were reluctant to
move to the new premises. Here I was caught up between PMG
on one side and the organized Union on the other .Somehow I
managed to convince the postmen by selective method of carrot
and stick and I succeeded in shifting the postmen to the
exclusive delivery hall. This helped me to remain in the good
books of my PMG.But the unions by misrepresenting my
several decisions to the immediate boss, ie, the Director of
Postal Services thereby alienating me from the Director
succeeded in driving a wedge between me and my immediate
boss..Thus when he asked me over phone from Bangalore to
revoke suspension of a branch secretary of the union I remained
stubborn and asked my Director politely to pass the same order
in writing to be complied with. I knew the office bearer was
suspended for his insubordination and dereliction of duty and
based on Postmaster’s recommendation the office bearer had to
be suspended.

So much so my Director got vexed with me and one evening
took the trouble of reaching me on telephone in my house and
expressed his dissatisfaction bemoaning the fact while my
horoscope tallied with that of my PMG the horoscopes of his
and mine didn’t tally! This identification of myself with my
PMG somehow or the other came to be my cross. This
misunderstanding got further fuelled because whenever the

PMG chose to visit Mysore I got the information first and
would meet him at Chamundi Guest house and accompany him

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