If Workplaces Functioned & Graded Like Traditional Academics...

Yet again, it's that time of the year: When students in India are being ranked on their ability to rote learn their yearly quota of "curriculum".

But, if education is expected to prepare students for a career, shouldn't it be more in sync with how workplaces function?

For amusing ourselves, let's imagine what a workplace would look like, if it followed the grading rules and methods of educational institutions and exams:

- You should work individually and not in a team.

- You cannot share your work and reports with others.

- Each person in the meeting must take down a separate Minutes of the Meeting and it should not be shared with others.

- The Minutes must be memorized as the Boss can ask you to repeat them at another time. If you cannot speak without referring to your notes, you are stupid, incompetent, nincompoop, and your daddy is wasting money on you.

- You cannot collaborate on projects. You can be fined, punished, suspended, detained or even thrown out for collaborating.

- You primarily get paid for showing up, and you can generally get by, by applying sly memory methods taught by tutorials 

- You cannot use a calculator, a mobile phone, messaging apps, collaborating apps, or Google. These are taboo, and can be a serious offence leading to end of career.

These examples can go on and on, of how a workplace would be like if it followed the amusing practices followed by educational institutions and systems to grade students. Can you think of some too? Add to the comments below and we'll have some more fun, poking the system.