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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