"Workload" and "Recession", simultaneously cannot exist! No, seriously. If the whole world is under recessionary conditions, who the hell would pay you for work!! Ok may be for regular 8 hour work, but not for overtime! If you aren't paid for doing something, why would you do it and thus what sort of moron can claim he has extra load, work-load!! I started observing closely, mainly 'janta" in my industry for obvious reasons. This is the jantaa with exceptional computing knowledge, and exceptional appetite for stretching their work life, or atleast they think! (This reminds me of this show I was watching "The IT crowd", insanely funny and highly recommended if you are a software professional!!) These bill gates wannabes like being tied down to a chair, albeit a very comfortable one, to do something so inexplicable. Nothing seems to affect their monotonous life, and nothing ever will! The moment they start treating life a notch better than their jobs, they will. It will take something big, really big to make them realize that!
I don't know what it would be, may be Mumbai will not be alone, may be it would take something of that sort to wake them up, may be I am writing all this because I am so pissed off with myself, " I do not hope for a better world for anyone, in fact I want my pain to be inflicted on others" ( Patrick Bateman- American Psycho), may be you would ask " what pain are you talking about?", may be I would say " I don't know, and that's the problem", may be I would say " What do you care?", may be you would declare, " This guy has gone mad, he is watching too many bad movies, reading sadistic novels or may be it is the music, yes bad music it is." and may be you would suggest something hedonistic to soothe my senses, to pull me back from insanity.
But dear all, I am not mad, I am not insane, I am just a common man, feeling the agony and pain of Mumbaikars. If I am sounding sadistic, I am not sorry, because that’s how you can survive in this mad mad mad world.
