Is being unprofessional is good way to retaliate in professional life….

There is always a time in office when we come across the situation when office life starts sucking and you end up thinking that what exactly you did for the full year. Year ends are specially those kind of times. You are evaluated for the things that you did from January till that moment. I had never been believer of marks system and always used to think that these marks doesn’t reflect intelligence of a person but I think that this is applicable to student life only when marks means only marks that you earn on the basis of the things you write on a sheet and it doesn’t matter that you understand what you are writing or you have rattofied that, it just answer the query that has been asked in exam paper. After working for 7 years in industry I don’t feel the same for the’ year end rating system’. These are just not marks based on the code you wrote for full year. It’s a combination of that code (for which you are paid salary), your PR skills, your connections, your ‘Yes Sir’ attitude, way you look or dress up, your maturity level, your professional or in that matter the unprofessional attitude, luck, intelligence of your superior and God knows what all. I have never done such evaluation for any person, I think I had always been junior most, so can only guess what a person expects from his subordinate and I think the above aspects cover all. I work in software industry and that too in India. India is nucleus of IT for the whole world and it is but obvious that the number of IT professionals is immense. I am also one of the member in this huge IT factory trying to make some difference in this pool of people so that the end of year can give some mental and monetary satisfaction. This year had not been good in this sense. I also got lost in this swirl of people who hardly could make a difference for the full year. This year reviews started and ended in same note ‘What else you did other then work’. Because of lack of good PR skills I couldn’t convince the person on other side of table that I am better then my peers with good intelligence level and attitude. I think these things take a little back seat once you go high up. They need some differentiating point, although I am never able to find it, I think nobody has, its only the way you befool the person by making him feel that he is wrong and you are right. Anyways I couldn’t do that this year and here I am sitting dissatisfied and thinking of following ‘No work’ attitude. I think this is the best reward for the company / project / mentor for granting ‘just average’ rating. The moment the feeling gets little pacified and lo you come across a junior passing by with much better rating and much better post, that too only because he is more smart then me as he can befool the company which I couldn’t. So I rejoin the black badge group who only sits and do nothing and show the management that its finally them who will be suffering and not me. This silent retaliation is best way to pacify yourself. No work, delays in deliveries, wear jeans on Monday, talk out loud on office floor, etc. But after working for so many years in industry, is this what is expected of me. By doing this, am I punishing my company, of which I am part, or myself? What’s the differentiating point between me and a person who is new to industry? There should be a difference between one-year-experience-holder-average-IT-professional and seven-year-experience-holder-average-IT-professional. I think this is the time to show this maturity. Sometimes the idealist solutions are better the practical solutions and only difficulty is the application of these solutions.