It does kill:
It was a Saturday when our local morning newspaper flashed the photo of a twenty two year old Howrah technie Abhijit Mukherjee committing suicide in the Infosys Mysore campus. A thin line of shiver crossed my backbone that was it the beginning or the end.
It was’nt long I have been hearing horrifying stories of co journalists losing their jobs with just a terse line forwarded to them by the HR department saying their services were not required further by the company. The other day a colleague of mine being asked by our office that he is being transferred to Bihar as his bureau was too insignificant for the company to carry on with the burden. Other colleagues are constantly being asked then and now to either submit their resignation or face consequences. And this does not seem to end here. Stories of people facing a cut in their salaries or being asked to bear with a cut in their allowances are everyday tell tales. The fear that we are the only ones facing the axe makes you still miserable. A colleague just got married and settled is now spending sleepless nights for fear of losing out in the making of a dignified and successful livelihood.
My brother, a banker in a prestigious bank in New Delhi has a similar story almost everyday that the marching orders can come in anytime. “May be, I 'll not be chucked out but for sure this would be the pretext to churn more out of we, professionals,” he says. Seniors would guide saying this is not the time to make a move. Just stick where you are as the market is lull and there is little scope of growth right now. “ It is better to just pass off these tough times and wait for the right opportunity”.
What worries me is the fact the likes of Abhijit must not have ended his life for losing his jobe but more out of the fear of losing out in the race in life. We heard Psychologists analysing it their way that probably he lost because of a loose nerve and in this era of competition it is the matter of ones nerve which can make you cope with the pressure peers. May be, all of us here are the ones who are in constant state of being in pressure and delivering in exigencies, take it as just our way of life. Where we are bound to believe that this is how it is the best for us and will be the best in the given circumstances and people are doing their best in these situations. " It is how you grow and it is always the survival of the fittest'. But what I really mind here is why do we agree to live this way. Is it really the way we have accepted to live or in the given circumstances made to accept. All of us out here ...can we just look within us and confess sincerely that do we feel achieved living this way. Achieving more luxury and fighting the constant pressure.....or sometimes is it really adding to our output....I dont know.. The uncertainty is killing everyone. Some fade out others have more duration but for sure it kills.
It was a Saturday when our local morning newspaper flashed the photo of a twenty two year old Howrah technie Abhijit Mukherjee committing suicide in the Infosys Mysore campus. A thin line of shiver crossed my backbone that was it the beginning or the end.
It was’nt long I have been hearing horrifying stories of co journalists losing their jobs with just a terse line forwarded to them by the HR department saying their services were not required further by the company. The other day a colleague of mine being asked by our office that he is being transferred to Bihar as his bureau was too insignificant for the company to carry on with the burden. Other colleagues are constantly being asked then and now to either submit their resignation or face consequences. And this does not seem to end here. Stories of people facing a cut in their salaries or being asked to bear with a cut in their allowances are everyday tell tales. The fear that we are the only ones facing the axe makes you still miserable. A colleague just got married and settled is now spending sleepless nights for fear of losing out in the making of a dignified and successful livelihood.
My brother, a banker in a prestigious bank in New Delhi has a similar story almost everyday that the marching orders can come in anytime. “May be, I 'll not be chucked out but for sure this would be the pretext to churn more out of we, professionals,” he says. Seniors would guide saying this is not the time to make a move. Just stick where you are as the market is lull and there is little scope of growth right now. “ It is better to just pass off these tough times and wait for the right opportunity”.
What worries me is the fact the likes of Abhijit must not have ended his life for losing his jobe but more out of the fear of losing out in the race in life. We heard Psychologists analysing it their way that probably he lost because of a loose nerve and in this era of competition it is the matter of ones nerve which can make you cope with the pressure peers. May be, all of us here are the ones who are in constant state of being in pressure and delivering in exigencies, take it as just our way of life. Where we are bound to believe that this is how it is the best for us and will be the best in the given circumstances and people are doing their best in these situations. " It is how you grow and it is always the survival of the fittest'. But what I really mind here is why do we agree to live this way. Is it really the way we have accepted to live or in the given circumstances made to accept. All of us out here ...can we just look within us and confess sincerely that do we feel achieved living this way. Achieving more luxury and fighting the constant pressure.....or sometimes is it really adding to our output....I dont know.. The uncertainty is killing everyone. Some fade out others have more duration but for sure it kills.
