The link here dates back to 5 to 6 years ago, where i remember a telecom company providing its subscribers with a facility called the "R World". It meant that with a push of a button (guess its the centre huge one!) one could access the net, send emails, watch movies etc etc.... At that time i thought it really created a huge wave in the industry and gave a tough run for its competators. And today the buzz is back! Just omit the "l" in "R World" and you end up recieving the big brother's christmas gift, yes i mean the "Recession" as we all know it! And i prefer to call it the "R Word"!
I was trying to note the subtle changes its caused in my life as a lay(wo)man.Well, i know not the economics of its effect on the GDP or the economic growth or blah blah... Thats not what i can really get into my head! But these changes are very minute that has influenced many of us i think. Here they go!
I was chatting with a friend of mine who is an engineering grad and happen to ask him what he was upto in life.He replied "jobkhoj" and with a grin face attributed that to the R word. Well if you happen to know a few of the fresh graduates or the final year ones, or if yourself is one, then i am sure this is pretty much the same there! We guys are the most spoken ones, be it anywhere! Just meet any Mr X or Mrs Y (I dont want to make more gender biases here :)) you will be shot with a question like "Oh final year is it? Have a job in your hands?" and if your answer is a yes, then again comes a sad nod "But the time is really bad you see, may be they would defer their join dates! blah blah ...." Some would go a step ahead and be generous to say "May be the situation improves by 2010 or 2012 ........", Guess where they got all these astro powers from!
Not just this, one day i was having a plate of masala dosa with a friend of mine in a good hotel and we noticed that the chutney go watery of late! We just had to look at each other and say "R Word"!
Its taken a toll on the banks as well! We have this practice of getting a Demand Draft (DD) from a bank as soon as we get our offer letters in college. Now, a student who on an average gets 3 offers now ends up with one or two! So that means the revenue on DDs of the other two offers is lost to the bank as well! Yeah blindly curse the R Word!
Apart from this, during my internship I was told that my company was into cost cutting. Trust me, they ended up cutting everything from extravagant snacks to the internet cable! I was also suprised one day to find the hand wash solution and the toilet papers missing from the rest room. Was that magical word also behind that?!? I wonder! May be if you find anything out of place in life, you can always just quip the "R word" and move on! May be that can get your frustration out!!!
Well i guess these are the small changes that affect me rather than the GDP, economic growth blah blah.....!!! Is it not R Wor(l)d really a buzz?! Are we not the chosen ones to face it?
I was trying to note the subtle changes its caused in my life as a lay(wo)man.Well, i know not the economics of its effect on the GDP or the economic growth or blah blah... Thats not what i can really get into my head! But these changes are very minute that has influenced many of us i think. Here they go!
I was chatting with a friend of mine who is an engineering grad and happen to ask him what he was upto in life.He replied "jobkhoj" and with a grin face attributed that to the R word. Well if you happen to know a few of the fresh graduates or the final year ones, or if yourself is one, then i am sure this is pretty much the same there! We guys are the most spoken ones, be it anywhere! Just meet any Mr X or Mrs Y (I dont want to make more gender biases here :)) you will be shot with a question like "Oh final year is it? Have a job in your hands?" and if your answer is a yes, then again comes a sad nod "But the time is really bad you see, may be they would defer their join dates! blah blah ...." Some would go a step ahead and be generous to say "May be the situation improves by 2010 or 2012 ........", Guess where they got all these astro powers from!
Not just this, one day i was having a plate of masala dosa with a friend of mine in a good hotel and we noticed that the chutney go watery of late! We just had to look at each other and say "R Word"!
Its taken a toll on the banks as well! We have this practice of getting a Demand Draft (DD) from a bank as soon as we get our offer letters in college. Now, a student who on an average gets 3 offers now ends up with one or two! So that means the revenue on DDs of the other two offers is lost to the bank as well! Yeah blindly curse the R Word!
Apart from this, during my internship I was told that my company was into cost cutting. Trust me, they ended up cutting everything from extravagant snacks to the internet cable! I was also suprised one day to find the hand wash solution and the toilet papers missing from the rest room. Was that magical word also behind that?!? I wonder! May be if you find anything out of place in life, you can always just quip the "R word" and move on! May be that can get your frustration out!!!
Well i guess these are the small changes that affect me rather than the GDP, economic growth blah blah.....!!! Is it not R Wor(l)d really a buzz?! Are we not the chosen ones to face it?
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Ah, atlast and atleast I'm deeply gladdened to see the eradication of the gender biasing here[ deeply sighed to say the least!].
Coming to the post- Well, I must confess that the laughter was un-concealable at various data points and I assume that the R-word has its say here too.Hehe!.
Your examples were so lucid and articulate that I could meet to those point-over-point. Infact, I'm forced to put some of my anecdotes from school - Wherein, during our "Electrodynamics" class a brainy scholar from the class asked "Why dont we have DC supply in India?" and the erstwhile teacher, with a muffled and befogged look said "Because India is a Poor country!!" hehe..
I was wondering if he'd have utterer the "R-word" here too- had this been a contemporary event. Lolz!
Thank You for yet again displaying your "halo"ed thoughts and for enlightening us with yet another terminology.
Well again.. i see about the R word.. as you prefer to call it...
I would like to quote a situation from my memoir's.. back here..
this took place at a temple.. i visit that mostly on festive eve's.. every time they would decorate the temple premises with garlands... but lately when i had been there, i found the garlands more brighter than before.. so i just went to check it.. and they turned out to be the Man Made plastic....and then just a wild grin went over my face.. looking at my friend i said .. cost cutting.. maybe they are low on funds...
The R world has affected the life of engineers but also the whole lot who were dependent on them...
You go to any shop u find a new year discount sale still on!(even in Feb...) The R world is really Rockking the world today
To !nversed Poignancy!
Hehe thanks for the thoughts you shared! May be as you said the teacher would have quipped the same, or even worst, the R word enjoying such a publicity right now, would have stopped the student from asking that question at all, as he would know the answer himself!!!
To The GeeK
Thanks for your memoirs there! Yeah I agree the R word has affected the angels and demons alike!!! None seem to be spared, not even God himself! Hehe! :)