Warning: do not try this as your office; result may be differ
The literal meaning of lifting is to lift up or pick up
something like lifting up the weight.
But we Pakistani use this word in some other meaning too.
Lifting is also use as an alternate of buttering someone, people of Pakistan do
buttering if they need to fulfill their requirement without any hesitation.
Mostly this phenomenon is used in offices i.e. if someone needs that his boss allow him to go
early, so he will do lifting of his/her boss to get the advantage of early
going home.
One year earlier when I joined the factory I need short
leave, so I went to my boss and asked
for short leave for urgent piece of work at home. He refused it and said you
can go tomorrow but not today because of client visit of factory. I accept it and went back to work and after
few minutes I saw that, my colleague asked for short leave and he got it
easily. I was amazed and ask him how you did it. He said it’s simple LIFTING.
I thought might be he is talking about lifting up the weight,
I mean weight lifting to build up the muscles. So I went to gym and start
lifting up the weight, of course initially I pick up light weights anyway next
day I reached office 20 minutes late.
My boss called me in office and asked cross questioning for
getting late, after 1 hours of long bitter war with boss I went back to my seat, after
few minutes I found that my colleague has also late but he got his seat without
any hesitation . I asked him why boss
don’t calls you on coming late, he replied, its lifting my dear” LIFTING”
I thought because I don’t gain weight in lifting maybe
that’s why my boss screams on me all the time, so after office time I straight
went to gym and start workout and lift up the heavy weight. Everyone in the gym
was looking at to me, I have never lifted up such a heavy weight before, one
boy come to me ask are you ok? What happen? Are you willing to have fight with someone,
I said no I just want to lift up weight as much as I can? The boy replied ok
good keep it up but do take care of yourself.
After hard workout, when I reached home I feel up pain in
whole body and a bit tiredness too, so I
felt sleep early, In morning when woke
up I feel heavy pain in my body and I found
that I’m having fever so I called my boss and said I am ill, he scream such
that on call as he is standing in front of me. I hang up the call and start
thinking,
I was so confused I pick up weight I did heavy lifting but
still………..why??
Then I called my office colleague and share all the situation, he start
laughing and said, you have to learn a lot dear, you will learn all with your
experiences.
Next day my colleague was going in my boss room before
entering he whispered in my ear me keep your eyes and ears open and see what I
says to my boss, he said to boss, Sir your T-shirt is looking good I like it
from where you bought it, Boss replied I bought it from Dolmen Center 2 years
back.
Colleague: wow but it still looks new, anyway I’m going on
shopping tomorrow morning with my wife do you want new shirt from Dolmen
Center?
Boss: no, but if you can gift a shirt to my son he will be
so happy, he is having a birthday tomorrow.
Colleague: why not Sir please sign my leave, Thanks
My colleague come out of office with smiling face and an
approved leave form in hand, I was looking him with shocking face, he come to
me and said this is called lifting.
Now it’s almost end of 2017 and I have learned a lot from
the experiences only in 1 year I reached up to the post of senior Assistant, I
gifted a bike to the elder son of my boss.
I will be always thankful to my ex colleague who is at the
post of General Manager now. I learned a lot from him.
