The Corporate Pervert: When Leaders Confuse Control With Excellence

Let’s dissect the disturbing fusion of perverse relationship dynamics and toxic work culture that’s currently making waves in corporate India. It’s a tale that would make even Freud raise an eyebrow – or perhaps both.

The Pervert’s Guide to Corporate Leadership

“How long can you stare at your wife?” Ah yes, the burning question that’s apparently keeping our corporate titans awake at night. Not profits, not innovation, not employee welfare, but the duration of unsettling marital surveillance. Let’s pause and savor the sheer perversity of this query. It’s not just a Freudian slip; it’s a full Freudian belly flop into the pool of unconscious revelations.

Imagine the scene: a man, supposedly at the pinnacle of corporate achievement, reducing his life partner to an object of sustained visual assessment. Not a companion to share life’s journey, not a partner in building dreams, but a subject for an impromptu staring contest. It’s as if somewhere in the corporate manual of success, between “maximize shareholder value” and “optimize operational efficiency,” there’s a chapter on “How to Objectify Your Spouse for Maximum ROI.”

The Psychology of Power Perversion

This isn’t just about poor word choice or just ‘putting foot in the mouth’ of momentary lapses in judgment; rather it’s about a deeply ingrained perversion of power dynamics that has infected both personal and professional spheres. When a corporate leader casually suggests treating your wife as a visual experiment, while simultaneously advocating for 90-hour workweeks, we’re witnessing a perfect storm of patriarchal control and corporate exploitation.

The same mindset that sees nothing wrong with endless workplace surveillance apparently finds it perfectly normal to suggest treating one’s spouse like a specimen under a microscope. It’s a perverse confluence of personal and professional control mechanisms, where everything – and everyone – exists to be monitored, measured, and managed.

The Mathematics of Moral Bankruptcy

Let’s talk numbers, shall we? Mr. Subramanium’s ₹51 crore annual package breaks down to

• Base salary: ₹3.6 crore
• Prerequisites: ₹1.67 crore
• Commission: ₹35.28 crore
• Meanwhile, the average employee makes ₹9,77,099 annually.

This isn’t just income inequality; it’s financial perversion. When someone earning 500 times more than their average employee expresses regret about not being able to make people work on Sundays, we’re witnessing a special kind of moral bankruptcy.

The Perversion of Progress

The truly perverse aspect of this saga is how it’s all being done in the name of progress. We’re told that “extraordinary growth requires extraordinary effort,” but somehow this extraordinary effort always seems to fall on those making ordinary salaries. The perversion lies in the assumption that progress must come at the cost of human dignity, personal relationships, and basic work-life balance.

A New Metric System

Since we’re apparently in the business of measuring everything, let’s propose some new metrics:

• Spouse Staring Duration to Performance Appraisal Index (Inversely Proportional, the less you stare at your wife, the more is you appraised)
• CEO Salary to Employee Control Correlation (Directly Proportional- More CEO salary, more control over employee)
• Weekend Work to Mental Health Deterioration Rate (Don’t dare to relate, otherwise you’ll lose your mental health)

Conclusion: Breaking the Perverse Cycle

As we stare into the abyss of corporate perversion (for an appropriate duration, of course), it’s clear that something needs to change. The problem isn’t just the creepy comments about wife-staring or the insane work hours – it’s the underlying perversion of power that enables both.

Until our leaders learn that neither wives nor workers are objects for their control fantasies, we’ll continue to build leaking temples and crumbling infrastructure, as shown by L&T on Ram mandir and Pragati maidan tunnel, all while wondering why employee satisfaction and project quality keep declining.

So here’s to staring – not at our spouses or our productivity metrics, but at the perverted system that needs dismantling. Because sometimes, the most revolutionary act is refusing to participate in the perversion of power, whether it’s in the boardroom or the bedroom.

Remember, true leadership isn’t about how long you can stare at someone or how many hours you can make them work. It’s about creating an environment where both personal and professional relationships can thrive without being reduced to metrics in someone’s power fantasy.