Happy Boss Day!.. Cupcakes anyone?

Today is Boss Day! Should there be such a day? Should we as subordinate give our boss a treat? A debatable answer. If the boss is good to his/her staff, it will be a good time to show their appreciation for all the rubbish that he/she needs to put up every day in the office. If the boss has been bad, then the staff can still show appreciation to shame the boss for his/her bad attitute! As a boss, if your employee give you something on this occasion, will you be flattered or will you think that there is some ulterior motive? I will be flattered as the boss because it shows that I have subordinate that still care about me even though I may have been mean to them at times. Even if it is purely "polishing my shoe", they still bother to do it. Question? If the boss accepted your gift, consume it, thanks you for it and then told you later that this gift is to butter her, how will you feel? If the boss thinks that it is with motive, then would not he/ she reject the gift upright and chide the employee for such action? However, the acceptance of the gift will also signify that the Boss understands the implication? Then, would not a gift be just out of the good will of some one with the only motive of making someone happy. I believe we all love to receive gift as this is human nature. No one will turn something down unless the purpose behind such gift is really of question eg bribery or even criminal in nature or they are for something that you are unable to perform or they are really too expensive to receive as gift for no reason at all.

An innocent cupcake becomes an item of evil intention. How absurd can that be?

More beautiful cupcakes! They looks good yet be not deceived by its mere appearance.

Please also note that comments to cupcakes' pictures above are not directed at the cupcakes themselves or their ingredient or baking methods or their makers or even the shops that sell them or anything related to these cupcakes. Comments are used metaphorically.

Therefore the morale of the story is never give gift or even cupcakes to your boss. Is just not worth that effort! You will be backstabbed for whatever intention you may have.

Finally we should leave with this following quote:

"Failure is an instrumental part of every success. Whether our life has been a triumph or tragedy can only be judged at its very end."

- Words of Wisdom by Daisaku Ikeda

I think without failure, we probably will not know what is success. To succeed, we probably have to fail first. Most importantly, we have to pick ourselves up from the failure and carry on!