The incidence took place at my workplace.

I had passed out from government college of

Maharashtra and Chetan had passed out from tier-2 private engineering college, both got
selected in KT Industries India through campus placements. Both of us met first time during
the induction programme of the organization. As both are from similar background, thoughts
and wavelengths matched and we became friends. Fortunately, both were allotted the same
department. As we worked as team for specific project, I came to the understanding that
project head and Chetan got along really well and I attributed that to the fact that they
belonged to the same cast. The biases coming in to the picture are selective perception and
overconfidence bias (Stephen P. Robbins, 2015).

While delegating the areas under the project to work upon, the manager deliberately assigned
most of administrative and clerical work to me, while Chetan was assigned more important
aspects of project. I felt that Chetan was getting more exposure in the field that I always
wanted to hone my skills. I was afraid that the work I was doing did not add any value to my
career prospects. I felt that the favouritism exhibited by my manager towards Chetan was
because they both hailed from same caste. I feel this perception of mine is biased because of
my experience and attitude that whenever people of same caste work together they tend to
favour each other and the bias that comes in to picture is selective perception (Stephen P.
Robbins, 2015).

Chetan thought that manager would always favour him no matter what, because he got along
very well with the manager and assumed that he could take the manager for granted. So his
attitude towards work was always casual, as a result we never met the project deadlines. Also
he had false sense pride that being the college topper he would rule the corporate world as
well. He thought that he was better than most of his colleagues including me and hence had
the liberty to put in less effort and still manage to get desired results. I feel this perception of
Chetan can be attributed to overconfidence bias (Stephen P. Robbins, 2015).

Now that I have a better understanding of how biases affect us, I would have talked to
manager as to why particular roles were assigned to me and reasoned with him to provide me
the roles which I aspired for rather than quietly accepting whatever job was assigned to me.