I played game of soccer as a defender(Center Back) today at my work place, but only Metaphorically. Saving goal is essential part of play for a defender. What I had to defend today was my basic need for survival – Food.
Here is what happened…
None of the employees are allow to order any food online to office address Or go out during work hours because of covid prevention policy. I had not prepared lunch today because it was genuinely not possible for me to even cook at least a meggie noodle. If I had ask for permission to order food, management would have straight away denied it for sure (Talking with Previous Experience). So there were only 2 possibilities in front of me, either I follow company norms and stay hungry till evening OR I order food anyway and face consequences what so ever.
A good defender will dive for an offensive tackle If there is no other option to stop potential goal build up. Doing so defender knows he will be booked with Yellow Card but in that moment stopping opponent from scoring goal matters the most.
30 minutes to go for my Lunch Break. Playing by the rules would put me to starve until shift gets over. Although it is an offence to order a meal but I know Company won’t fire me for that matter (Or metaphorically speaking, they won’t RED Card me and send me off the pitch). After calculating potential risk factors I had no choice but to play my yellow card move to save myself from hunger. So I placed the order & food arrived. I was called by HR(Referee) for justification of my action. I gave a silly excuse to cut off the conversation, in return I received “This won’t be tolerated next time, this is your last warning”(My Yellow Card). Life is a Jungle and some time you have to take offence in order to meet your survival needs.
It felt victorious and that meal was not lesser than a Champions League trophy.
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