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So Fat reached his village. He was upset for couple of weeks and slowly managed to come out of the frustration in the village loveliness and he started a small business there with his past experience. His wife formed a group of ladies and initiated some small business.

Months went off, recession hit was harder than Fat thought of. So, lots of firings from lots and lots of industries and companies. As IT Sector is one of the highest paid sectors, this sector belongs to one of the highest affected sector by the recession.

So, even engineers thought of going home and take a break for some time. Fat is observing the returning engineer's count started from 1 in his village and it reached 8 within few weeks. He got more clearer picture about recession impact by seeing those 8 people in that small village.

Fat used to think that IT engineers will not have a problem to run home because they are paid heavily . So he started observing one among them:

One engineer Bramhi came with one trolly bag which has huge wheels (even he knows that in village he can't roll) where that trolley has Eight months old flight tag of a inter national airlines that he travelled for some project. Initially he did not tell to his parents, within few days parents understood that some thing is fishy because in general this engineer never used to stay beyond 2 to 3 days by complaining humidity, rain, mosquitoes, sunny, water, bla bla bla .....

One fine day his father asked and Bramhi revealed the news.

Months passes by , Brahmi did not get any hope of getting out of recession. His problem started from morning, as he was under air condition most of the time, he is not able to tolerate little sun too . Because of the confidence level and salary he was getting , he has superiority complex for not meeting with any villagers during his earlier visits . So he doesn’t have any friend to share his feelings.

Slowly he felt bad for what he was in past and remembering couple of situations like how he treated one of the customer representatives in a cloth emporium for his own mistake. When his parents were telling him not to waste money he did not care for their words .Now The Bramhi is in such a situation where he doesn’t have savings to survive for even few months .

He started remembering his typical day:

He will get up by 8 AM and will be ready by 9 AM, cab will be waiting for him at 9:30 and he reaches by 9:36 where driver might have already given couple of blank rings to alert Brahmi and Brahmi gets into the cab by murmuring on driver in english who waited for 6 extra minutes than his usual time.

While getting down at office, he used to command the driver to stop the vehicle at the nearest possible point to the door to escape walking for couple of seconds as well as from sun. Not ready to talk with house keeping people in their understandable language and shouting in english. Escalating about a helper for not removing an empty coffee cup from his desk which actually Brahmi should have been put into the dustbin (as per organizational rules). Suggesting lots of things to his co-friends (just because they are into the less paid industry and in the process of taking revenge on them because they were the toppers in his school days).

Even irrespective of all these past behaviours & attitude from him, the co-villagers were supporting him and able to understand his situation and most are trying to give moral support.

Fat read in the news papers mentioning about the over financial commitments of IT people and he read that most people who are consulting Psychiatrists are from IT sector because they are not strong enough to face the tough situations. He understood the formula of IT engineer is get 30 -> Spend 32K ( cloths, drinks, pubs, movies, malls, restaurents, many many credit cards, cabs, high rent, personal loans, vehicle loans, housing loans,etc…,) thinking of 10% to 15% hike yearly .This is an illogical illusion of most of the IT Engineers .

Fat felt happy than ever for the reason that he had saved some amount of money from his job and is able to run his own business and family by his own.

Slolwy market trends moving up and IT boom started again, Bramhi got job in another company. Now Bramhi understands the value of people and he also understands the ways of life as a Totality. He is able to compare himself with the mental strength of Fat in withstanding in life after a simillar blow .

PS: This is just a story of a sample Fat and Bramhi. I hope the reader understands that I am not generalizing in any way either IT Engineers or other sector employees. I am quite very well aware of the charitable things run by IT Engineers like TeachIndia, WishFulfilling, Sponsoring education to poor, Support To Go Green.etc.,.

Lets all remember "SARVEJANA SUKHINO BHAVANTHU"....

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This is a story of a couple Fat and Mot! . Fat works in a HyperMarket and Mot works in the Housekeeping section of an IT Company. Here Fat is little arrogant and having short temperament by nature..

They are staying in a house which is little far from the city centre, because main city is occupied with High Paid employees :). More Rent and more cost of living..made Fat to stay in a house which is far from City. So to get into the work, Fat uses city service and Mat has pickup and drop from her company.

One day Fat got up by 6'o clock and got ready by 7'o clock. He reached the bus stop by 7:15. On the way he observed a cab from a call centre is parked in a corner. Just like that he spoke to the driver and enquired why the cab is there. Driver told he is waiting to pickup some call centre employee and employee asked driver to wait for an hour as his time slot moved by 2 hrs. He felt he could have been an employee of that kind of company so that no need of traveling by bus.

Walking further, he reached the bus stop. After waiting for couple of minutes, He got the bus. He felt fortunate by seeing that bus coming but he got worried when it is stopped at his stop. It is jam packed with people. He tried to enter from front, then conductor told him to get in from back side. Some how he got in that jam packed bus. Since he got up early in the morning, he is feeling sleepy but no way to get into the sleeping mode. The bus entered into city where IT parks are there with fine glassed structures. He wished if he would have been in that place, he could have worked for high salaries.

Bus is going slowly because of the heavy load that it is carrying and he observed a Tempo van where One long seat is occupied by 1 or 2 persons and they are sitting Araaaam Se :) most people are sleeping. Back side he sees a company logo and a Poster mentioning the contact number to reach if driver drives rashly. He understood that van is also for IT people. So slowly his soul started burning and making him emotional. After some time he observed one beautiful AC volvo BMTC bus crossing them. It is glass covered, with an LCD TV inside and people are standing and sitting but in comfortable positions, not much packed. He felt jealous and started shouting on IT sector because he knows that even he has an option of travel in that bus unfortunately his salary will not recommend having this comfort. Fortunately he got down earlier than what he thought to his destination bus point. He got an idea of search for a very very small house near by his office and he thought he can afford. As he got some free time from his job he thought of searching for house. So he entered into an area which is not looking so rich, thinking there - he may get a house with affordable rent.

He found one TOLET board and knocked the door to enquire. He rang the bell of ground floor and owner came out. Fat enquired about the TOLET board, the first question Fat expected from owner that he may ask Family or Bachelor, but the owner poured oil into his burning heart by asking what is your job. He told he is working in a Hypermarket. Then owner told rashly this is only for IT people, out of angry he asked why is that? Owner replied they are the people who can pay higher rent since they get paid highly. Fat was unhappy for his answer. Then he started searching for some more options of finding house and he found a contact number given under TOLET and he called to that number, a broker picked up the phone and bowled the same question which he failed to bat earlier i.e "Where r u working?" this time Fat changed the strategy of batting for the same ball by mentioning the Name of Hypermarket instead using the word Hypermarket. Unfortunately the next ball from brokers questions is --- is that IT or BPO company?. That's it!!!!!!! Fat thought he can't play this game because at the end of the game result is the same because of that mandatory condition which he is failing to meet. So he is totally frustrated with his job and got angry on IT people/sector.

So his anger towards the IT sector goes higher and higher as the time passes and he is getting hurt with similar kind of incidents in the places like vegetable shopping, auto walas, bazars, bus conductors etc etc.. One fine day, Nooo!! One Unfine day the worst hit he got from his wife during a fight, she told I could have been more happy if I had married an IT person.. that is..it...Fat is lost totally!!!

Months pass away...Fat heard that US is under recession and one of the highest affected sector for this is IT sector. When he read this news, he felt him self as the happiest person in the world on that day. He started hearing all the bad news from the IT world as good news for him. As the days pass away, he could feel the difference in the roads not that much filled with High-end cars. Most companies stopped cab service in the name of cost-optimization and not much cabs too. People started loosing jobs so rents went down... and in the same area where he searched earlier is having more TO-LET boards than earlier.. Few days he went to couple of houses and took revenge by enquiring for rented house and now owners are ready for any employee then he replied sorry I am not IT employee to stay in your home. like this...

In these good times, he did not know that one bad day is waiting for him soon... and that day has come.. He observed his wife is not ready for the cab.. when he asked Mat replied mentioning she lost job as her parent company removed contract to their Housekeeping company because the parent company is under cost optimization... a blow to house income started... with in couple of weeks he got another blow from his hypermarket in the form of reducing workers and he is one among the culprits for the same. And he is one among the Axed workers.

Fat thought he can find another job to run his family. He understood with in couple of days. that getting into new job is not so simple like earlier... and he is back to his old routine but this time to searching for a new job... he started criticizing himself the way how he got angry against IT sector when he saw a successive 10 busses of Infosys not allowing any passengers but only infy employees allowed, Noww he started wishing good for this high paid SECTOR like why can't this IT come up so that me and Mat can get job easily..that’s ok even if we are staying far from city...we are living happily like this..and he started praying to god so that the world comes out of recession thinking if recession goes offf means IT jobs will increase... and in turn he will get job sooner...

Alaasss ..at last Fat understood that neither he or Mat will not get job sooner, so they moved their family to their own old golden village.

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