Dear Rajiv,
These are some of the tricky situations one faces in the office. Once a precedent is set, it becomes difficult to get rid of. Old timers would not have problems as they are used to such privileges by senior/top management. But the gennext seem to be difficult to digest this so called discrimination.
I suggest the following:-
1. End this practice of office boys cleaning any body\'s plates/lifting cups etc.
2. Top management, if atall wish to avail of this, must do so within the confines of their office rooms/chambers.
3. Eating in the same dining hall and having such a privilege is not good for office hygiene.
4. In all good organizations, the top management always walk the talk, lead by example.e.g. in a German MNC, where I worked for four years, the top management would wash their own plates,fill their own water bottles, collect their print outs from the common room themselves, pool cars etc. without ever feeling slighted.Hence, we all did our chores without any r