I had no mind to attend this meeting and even obtained a full day leave on a false excuse but S was very keen on my attending it. He says one should always attend meeting where cheap politics of this sort brews up. So I went in.
As now laughs and talks to me cheerfully but I know all that is just a superficial patch work. I do the same to her. All the other teachers too talk to me normally but I know it to be only skin deep. well, I do the same.
I couldn't help noticing that Mz looked extra bright, confident, smug, important and just that extra bit more polite which lets you guess all the more plainly that it is fake. And she had perfect reason to be. Shortly As informed us that in the coming months she will have to shuttle between this school and the new branch in the other city so in her absence Mz and Mym will officiate and look into all her works for the school.
I am so sure that nobody liked this news. There were hardly any joyful exclamations. If anything, there were averted lowered gazes trying to battle their own opinions like my own and afraid of showing their dismay in their eyes.
When the meeting was about to finish, Mz in fake polite tones said she wanted to say something.
"Yesterday, when I was doing a parent tour (showing prospective parents the school to let them decide whether it is good enough for their child.), I greeted Ad 3 times in front of the parent but she didn't speak to me. It was very insulting especially as I was with a parent. " Ad replied coolly,
"I don't talk to hypocrites."
"What? I haven't understood. What is a hypocrite? "
"A hypocrite is someone who says nice loving things in front but stabs in your back." Ad replied, " And you are one such a person so I am not talking to you."
Without a single remark, exclamation, sympathy or surprise everyone digested this as comfortably as a bite out of a biscuit and As without asking them what was wrong with either of them or trying to make peace between them pronounced a new rule that from now on if any teacher doing the parent tour greeted any teacher that teacher will have to return the greeting politely.
I , as no doubt some others too, were left to ponder over the wisdom of choosing Mz and Mym. Neither of them have desired qualifications, degrees or experience. They both are roughly 2-3 years old in this school and no one knows what was their profession prior to this. They both have no skills for even being a teacher leave alone a manager. The only thing they appear to do well is to speak German.What's even more disturbing is the fact that they both (but Mz a lot more than Mym) do not enjoy Parents' favor; in fact to put it plainly, parents just hate Mz. as much as they hate As. I recalled, since long they have been demanding for a new manager in place of As and at least several times Mz's resignation has been demanded too but now on hearing that the same Mz is the new manager it will be like "out of the fire into the frying pan" type of thing with them.
How or what bonds As so tightly with Mym and Mz, really beats me that despite having nothing positive on their side they are now her right hands? When I had seen Mz with her family in that restaurant on so close and familiar terms with Stf the boss, I had felt strange. Obviously, there is a lot more between them then is allowed the outsiders to know.
S speculates, maybe, As is in relationship with Mz (but Mz has her own boy friend and Mym has just recently got married) or Stf has relationship with Mz's father, brother etc ( but her mother is also there and the brother is only 18-20) so I am still at a loss to know the real cause. Maybe, Stf follows some other underground business or something illegal like tax evasion, money manipulation etc and so could not risk handing over the school office to a complete outsider or anyone else in the staff who might have issues handling illegal matters or worse still, just spill the beans. Stf herself is a divorcee with two grown up children and her husband was in business and is now a business partner with her in this school.
If one makes a big blunder either that person is a fool or he is a genius.
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