Overconfident
9/28/2025
People who only say confident things and give off a gleaming appearance of positivity are usually overcompensating for their insecurities. They have to hide behind an always-smiling or piss-waterfall sort of façade because they think it’s wrong to be comfortable with their insecurities. But from experience, I know the best way to deal with life is head-on. Difficulties and failures are a part of everyone’s lives and businesses as well. Wearing colored goggles and burying one’s head in the sand never helped; you have a dry throat and a fluttering sphincter that’s always seeking the wrong kind of attention right when you can’t afford it. I have a clear-eyed, rational, and practical worldview that helps me weigh the pros and cons without bias. And that’s really key. I used to carry toilet paper wherever I went in India when I first came back from the US, but now I use my hands. Sometimes I just let the shit dry on my ass.
Most overconfident corporate Indian masala male fucks are usually effeminate; at home, they sit on their mom’s or wife’s lap, trembling, mumbling, and drooling from the mouth, some in tears—the henpecked rascals—and in the office, they are royal fucking Bengal tigers. There are various forms of psychopathy that are exhibited in the genteel, still air of the corporate fart theater. Sort of a mini-kingdom within itself that runs its own obscene autocracy. The ones who shout imprecations are thus a product of a country and this corporate culture that have a habit of cherry-picking what they want. We can’t pick the part of the world that’s good, but we can inculcate the bad, just with a veneer of everything being all right when it is not, simply because that’s what we do everywhere else. The corporate world is just a regular mini version of the bullshit in greater society. These overconfident fucks are so full of shit that you can see the brown turds when they open their fucking lying mouths.
Unrealistic expectations often lead to unhealthy outcomes. It’s better to plan properly and go step by step; rushing into decisions with blinkers on isn’t the best way to go about a venture. I’ve felt the headwinds, I understand the stakes and the pitfalls, and I advise people to be cautious. Either being ill-advised, led by charlatans, or suffering from Dunning-Kruger, the gung-ho usually end up badly. In India, there’s a chain of people who pretend to know their shit when they don’t, which complicates things.
Productivity is a term that’s become trite through abuse and overuse. Once upon a time, it meant doing more in less time when the devices and tasks were clearly mismatched. But now, it’s just a sneaky way for companies to extract more sweat from their employees for less pay. You’d think how convenient it would be for them, but not really, especially when there’s a whole industry built around exploiting one group of people at the behest of another. Again, when you trust a group of humans to do the right thing, please expect the opposite. Otherwise, you haven’t learned a thing. The idea is to know this and survive. I haven’t; I have a big mouth, and I want to be fair. There’s no place for a stupid person like me.
It’s a bleak reality that the average worker is expected to do more with less. Overburdened, stressed, and undervalued, it’s a wonder how anyone manages to survive the daily grind. And for what? To produce subpar products and services that barely scrape by? Work, once a source of fulfillment, has been reduced to just a means to an end and a bragging social membership badge. It’s no longer about creating something of value or making a difference in the world. It’s just a necessary evil, something to endure in exchange for a paycheck, or an ego badge for oneself or another—a membership. The irony of it all is that the very definition of productivity has become a reflection of its opposite. In this dystopian world of distorted productivity where greed and exploitation reign supreme, where work is a chore and employees are just disposable resources, the so-called progress has taken us backward. It’s a sorry state of affairs, but who needs dignity and respect anyway? If we can get money, that’s really all we need, isn’t it?
People find many reasons not to pay after you spend hours on an assignment or report. The ones that I’ve encountered are: the project was postponed, or it was canceled, or it didn’t get funded, or the usual, we knew it already, or the more humorous, this is all information that’s available from the internet, as if I were to manufacture fresh-baked bread with grains grown from my own backyard to qualify. As I note, people are assholes, not to be trusted. If you have burned your fingers in a flame once, the only thing you can do is not keep repeating it, because otherwise you’ll have no fingers left.
It is time for companies and employers to understand that bona fide productivity, even though that particular word is just gassy vomit, comes from investing in their employees, providing them with the tools and resources they need to do their jobs well, and valuing their contributions so they feel part of a bigger, more meaningful picture.
And—and this can’t be overstated—you have to be paying them a living wage, or don’t fucking waste anyone’s time. As the Gini Index shows us, this isn’t happening, and the gap is extreme. At some point, if this goes on, the people who pay for the goods—the middle class—are going to go below the threshold, without a way to exist or pay to live in this world. It is time for us to work together, to support one another, and to create a world where work is meaningful and people are treated with respect and dignity. The future depends on it, and you can’t run away from the future; it’s coming at you.