Gloom

My company eats my salary for breakfast, my happiness for lunch and my peace of mind for dinner.

Employers around the world are making life hell for employees. Suddenly the same " human resource" who were assets to the company have become their liabilities. As our Inbox is spammed by Boss/Company bashing messages and forwards the truth is that the employee is left at the end of the day like the donkey who toiled breaking his bones and still got water and peanuts for the day meal!

Okay lets not get into the economics of world finance, lets concentrate on our country. This was the year that some unfortunate people like me and my classmates graduated and went out into the big bad world looking for that elusive dream job. Thank God we were sane enough to expect that our first jobs would not be our dream jobs! However none of us had expected to be hit by such a nightmare.

Most companies went on a hiring freeze. People are throwing jargon at random, and the funny thing is that most people are believing in them. "you cannot expect a good job in this gloomy market"; "We are unlucky to have been hit by recession" etc. etc.

A report shows that in the past few months " recession" is the most popularly used word on the internet. Just goes to show the depressed environment that we are living in. But the fact of the matter is that India has not been hit by the recession at all. What exactly is the recession? A recession is a decline in a country's real gross domestic product for two or more consecutive quarters, according to http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/recession

Hence before our country even went from one quarter to another how exactly can you say that we are facing a recession? What we are facing is a slowdown, and not a recession. Anyway how does it matter, because our employers are using the R-word as the alibi to do almost anything to the employees. Cut pay, cost cutting, lay offs, and a million other fancy sounding things which basically leave us all screwed up at the end of the day. It is a smart ploy that these guiys have come up with but what they do not realize is that the wheel of fortune shall turn. The same employees who they treat like trash, are actually the asset, and if you do not value your own asset, you are in for trouble.

just wondering..

There is a land A. In land A there is a king. The king is old. He has ruled the land for many a long years. Now he is weak. His ministers who once swore by him now have the audacity to raise their voices against him.

But he was not this weak old wreck always. In his heyday he was vibrant and rebellious. He had overthrown the king who was ruling then. He did not like the myopic view that the then king took. He thought the then king had a myopic view and there was the need of change. So he did all he could, young blood was flowing in his veins, he was strong. He overthrew the powers that be.

But today he is old. His own eyesight has become weak. He does not enjoy the authority he once commanded on the others. Now there is a new kid on the block. He speaks up, he is violent, he is ready for a fight. The king coils back. All the others who did not know how to oppose this king side with the kid.

The king is old but he is wise, he has seen the world and he has learnt. There were things he had done when he was young which he knows are wrong. He goes back on them; he brings in fresh views, sometimes contrary to his views of the young age.

Is it fine to keep land A under the old king? In that case A remains stable, there is less violence, A improves from the state that it is in. Or should the new kid take on the reins. A is put through a whirlwind again, there is instability, uncertainty.

Will the question ever be answered?

Sad KKR fan

The second season of IPL is on as everyone knows. It is a pretty enjoyable format of the game. I enjoy it quite a lot.

The only thing which is a bit intriguing is that though it is Indian Premiere League it is being played in South Africa! Other than that I quite enjoy it. When we go back home we can sit with a coke and some food and enjoy the game.

Everyone around me is shouting T20 is destroying the game; this is not how a match should be played and a series of similar stuff.

But I really do not see how a 5 day long game is awfully more enjoyable than the taut drama which unfolds in a couple of hours. I am not saying a Test match is a bad thing. It’s a nice format, just a bit trying on my patience.

However watching this year’s IPL has been very trying on my patience (since I was waiting for them to win); a nightmare, especially since I am a Kolkata Knight Riders fan. It’s funny how a team can be so lackadaisical towards victory. Cricket is a team game right? At least that is what I believed in at least, till I saw a few matches played by our dear Knight Riders. I mean each player comes and plays as if its gulli cricket. There is no apparent synergy in the team.

Fancy name they have got. A brilliant costume too, fashioned by the renowned Manish Malhotra (if you have no clue who that is, he is a fashion designer our country boasts of) I believe. Not that that is a surprise, considering Shahrukh (if you don’t know who this one is, well, then I guess, just die..) dearest is the promoter, proponent, advocate, stakeholder, shareholder, owner… what would be the right word I wonder.

Anyway, we have a reality show running up to the real deal( the IPL matches) , we have nice cheerleaders, we have the most controversial captaincy issue, an imported and highly learned coach.. but nothing can save the day.

Sourav Ganguly is not up to the job of leading the team. Of course he is not. I mean you just have to look at the team, perhaps it is the most unattractive array of players ever. Mr. Khan, when there is a premiere league game, the operative word is “premiere”. You select the “premiere” , i.e. , the best players. Not pick out the rotting apples in the basket at the highest price. But that is what Mr. Khan believes in, and since he is the one who calls the shots he is the one we shall all listen to.

Mr. Khan, you might suggest a certain Mr. Gavaskar to buy his own team, (he would certainly not ask you for his opinion if he did own one) but you are not doing a very commendable job with yours.