Another day comes to an end and questions have been asked about it. Questions of such philosophical gravity that'd make the chicken questions sound superficial. Like how is it that there are people working for 10,000 rupees, like a slave with a headphone attached to their head and no breaks of any timeframe in the immediate chronological vicinity. Well, it's a BPO, people are slaves there mate, came an unfazed answer from the exact entity whose earlier observations where the progenitor for these supreme questions of primary importance.
Aaaah chuck the grandiose literary crap. This guy comes over and says, "God I wish I could quit this stupid job, I am getting paid Rs. 1,20,000 (this in most foreign currency, is such a pathetic sum, and that which would make the heavily web-parodied college dropout/failures working at McDonalds appear to have career) a year and they don't even allow my phone inside the office". I could sympathise. I tried to sympathise. And like any other social human being with the best of intentions, I told the next person I saw about it. Through the conversation that followed I take credit in observing an analogy comparing the working of a BPO to herding cattle. Cattle eats, excretes and lives in general without any particular understanding or constructing perspectives of any manner, and these jobs draw a parallel in terms of the way the conditions in which their productivity is defined. The key difference being the former whines a lot. Forgive me if you think I sound unkind, but it's meant to be an objective observation. The remuneration they are provided from these companies border on just being able to cover food money and in a metropolitan perspective, it would mean, cheap-as-food-poison food.
Tracing it in a very uninformed and technically unsound observation, the thought train took a time machine to the time period when some guys from the west decided it would be a good idea to come colonise India and make blue paint and a quick buck. No matter how much I hate being whiny about such stuff (boo hoo they came like four centuries ago and made my country a slave market place and such), this is the only possible conclusion I could arrive at. An inherent desire to please, maybe? How 'smart' do you think it is to answer calls for another big corporate who's raking in millions and as a consequence earn like a minuscule fraction of it, working like a slave? Forget the amount of money, how about satisfaction?
From another perspective, India is fairly wealthy in man power, so if most of these man power is not ideologically or intuitively endowed to found an 'Apple', 'Facebook' or a 'Google' ( I shudder to draw such examples rather than something more substantial in a scientific perspective, but sadly these are indeed the most valued assets in the entire brightly blue world), how about loving the land and taking up agriculture as a unifying cause. It could maybe feed the world? The corporates being able to feed a section of the society with money, this could maybe feed literally, with actual touchable and eatable food.
Just a thought (or enough of it to fill a blog post with).
Aaaah chuck the grandiose literary crap. This guy comes over and says, "God I wish I could quit this stupid job, I am getting paid Rs. 1,20,000 (this in most foreign currency, is such a pathetic sum, and that which would make the heavily web-parodied college dropout/failures working at McDonalds appear to have career) a year and they don't even allow my phone inside the office". I could sympathise. I tried to sympathise. And like any other social human being with the best of intentions, I told the next person I saw about it. Through the conversation that followed I take credit in observing an analogy comparing the working of a BPO to herding cattle. Cattle eats, excretes and lives in general without any particular understanding or constructing perspectives of any manner, and these jobs draw a parallel in terms of the way the conditions in which their productivity is defined. The key difference being the former whines a lot. Forgive me if you think I sound unkind, but it's meant to be an objective observation. The remuneration they are provided from these companies border on just being able to cover food money and in a metropolitan perspective, it would mean, cheap-as-food-poison food.
Tracing it in a very uninformed and technically unsound observation, the thought train took a time machine to the time period when some guys from the west decided it would be a good idea to come colonise India and make blue paint and a quick buck. No matter how much I hate being whiny about such stuff (boo hoo they came like four centuries ago and made my country a slave market place and such), this is the only possible conclusion I could arrive at. An inherent desire to please, maybe? How 'smart' do you think it is to answer calls for another big corporate who's raking in millions and as a consequence earn like a minuscule fraction of it, working like a slave? Forget the amount of money, how about satisfaction?
From another perspective, India is fairly wealthy in man power, so if most of these man power is not ideologically or intuitively endowed to found an 'Apple', 'Facebook' or a 'Google' ( I shudder to draw such examples rather than something more substantial in a scientific perspective, but sadly these are indeed the most valued assets in the entire brightly blue world), how about loving the land and taking up agriculture as a unifying cause. It could maybe feed the world? The corporates being able to feed a section of the society with money, this could maybe feed literally, with actual touchable and eatable food.
Just a thought (or enough of it to fill a blog post with).
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