Responsibilities should Define You, Not Designation!

Today’s IT needs to understand 1 simple but very important fact that - “Responsibilities define people, Not his or her Designation”

I have been in IT for almost 4.5 years now & always my responsibilities had been my top priority. I was given many high responsible/critical tasks which might be much more higher than what I should get at my career level. But I always felt myself lucky to get those and the “Designation” had never been so important to me. I did respect all my seniors & juniors equality and always tried to help them at my level best. 

The reason, I am writing this today - As nowadays I suddenly started thinking about this a lot & when I questioned myself “Why?” - I got a couple of answers from some of the recent facts - 

A few days ago when I was working with one of my junior noticed him checking another colleague's “Designation” in IM (who newly joined our team) before even talking to that person. And when he saw that the person is much senior to him, he requested me to coordinate for some work, instead of interacting directly. This guy is extremely good & responsible for what he does and also confident enough when he talks to me. Then “What’s the reason for his fear?” 

I myself got the answer when I started noticing how few people act & talk when they see you in a critical position. These people wanted to know (directly or indirectly) “What’s your career level?”. I simply did not understand what difference it was going to make & and “Why is it even important?”. Sometimes, I even noticed their tone & behavior totally changes after knowing my so-called “Designation”

There are many more such instances that made me sometimes feel that - “This Designation is even more important than the Rewards & Recognitions what I get”.

That’s why It’s necessary to understand why this career hierarchy was made in any organization - I personally think - “It was made and given to you with certain responsibilities when an organization feels you are capable & experienced enough to hold those” 

NOT To - ”Create such work environment where juniors are not comfortable and lose their confidence while taking to their seniors” 

NOT To - “Make you feel that Designation is very important to get proper response from someone & even for your work to be done properly” 

All of us (From the most junior to most senior level/executives) should understand that - "The Designation just gives us certain responsibilities to perform. Let it Not define us as a Person or our Importance"

Please spread this message if you also feel the same!!