Some important partner was visiting our office at 11 am this morning and our Director had asked us to given presentations of our projects to him. It was almost 11.08 and my friend Manu Bhai calls me up, probably returning my missed call from the previous day. I put off the phone and send a message back "Naukri pe hun".
Immediately my phone vibrates and I expect a message with some profanities. But it was little different. The message read "Naukr Saale"
FYI Mannu Bhai is a businessman.
Dhakka laga magar phir socha ..ki bhai sach hi to bol raha hai. Naukr hi hain hum.
But then the film director in me buzzed...and I thought it was a good title of a play...Naukr Saale! A play on the atrocities, limitations and imprisonment on being at a job.
The 'important partner' was late so I called up Manu Bhai and had a good chat and then thought of putting in my thoughts around naukri and Naukr Saale.
And NOW that the 'important partner' just walked into our office...I will continue writing after a break.
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Hmm...so let me tell you that I am obsessed with or rather not obsessed with my job i.e naukri.
I feel its a prison...that you have to spend a significant part of your life fulfilling the wishes of your boss or your organisation...in return of a salary...with which you may fulfill your own wishes. But do we actually do that? or are we really able to do that?...yeah in the few days of leave that you get.
Whenever I share this with anyone of my friends or my best friend (my wife)...I get the standard reply....no one in the world likes to work. Then how is this mafia operating? if everybody hates it.
I know there are some gangs that allow you some freedom...like work from home or something...thats a good step to offset some of the atrocities of work like travel and being their in time. You can work at home in a relaxed manner. But still does it allow you to have the freedom of doing what YOU want. Surely not.
Technically you have signed up for a job and you werent forced. So, the society thinks its ok. But do you really think that most people are doing their jobs in the way they are doing because thats what they wanted to do.
I hardly meet a executive or a office colleague saying....Oh! I always wished to sell insurance for XXX Insurance or I really wanted to work in the department of fisheries.
People are studying in school and then they take up some course...lets say electrical engineering and then somebody says...your must do an MBA and finally they land up selling Xray machines for a healthcare company. I mean agar samaan hi bechna tha to bagal ke Gupta Grocery store men hi internship kar lete. Why this whole circle of degrees?
I think I am digressing from the topic. Our issue is Naukr Saale!
So, everybody knows what a naukr connotes...a butler, a slave.
Sorry to detract again..Mannu Bhai messages...'Hum Maalik Bechaare'
aata hun ispe bhi..but let me focus right now.
so a naukr is a naukr...a demeaned character meant to obey orders. Thats essentially most of us are....or at least the people who got a job through naukri.com
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Its in our culture I think. The privilege which perhaps some average executive gets sitting in Europe or America is not what we have in India. Try calling an executive after work in Europe and leave it...try even asking for his mobile phone number. Forget it.
Yeh sirf yehin hai...ya perhaps in the so called economically developing or economically under-developed world.
But I guess it doesnt even change with money...Look at the Senior VPs of most corporates...with high blood pressure and their uric acid levels.
Aaj to saari bhadaas nikalunga. Aaj Friday hai...Kaam bhi kum hai aur agle do din chutti hai. And anyways I think writing a blog for a few minutes is much better than surfing FB or looking at flipkart...which I have seen many of my colleagues do...to take a break looking at their monitors.
To naukr saalo!
If you have read till this point then definitely you agree with me or I have become a good writer or you are good friend of mine wanting to know ki yeh Shankar Musafir saala karta kya hai zindagi men?
Waise my Dad says tumko bolne ke paise milte hain.
Anways...going on... and talking about the original Musafir...my grandfather. He used to say that 'Naukri jo hai...who Chaakri honi chahiye' yaani 'cha' hona chahiye...something you enjoy. So, I love being in the school education field and I like it. so it is chaakri but yet it is not it coz I have to deal with my boss and the politics of it all.
To kya karun..naukri chor dun. start something of my own. Thats a big risk...Home Loan...Biwi kehti hai nayi gaadi le lo and I have zero savings.
And most of it all...Darr lagta hai yaar. What if it doesnt work?
And then successful entrepreneurs like Mannu Bhai send messages like 'Maalik Bechaare'
I am stuck and I have no answer.
Might as well get back to work and see how I can impress the 'important partner'
See you and Love you.
P.S - The word for naukri in Bengali is Chaakri. Also, I plan to add some more to this article...I dont rest beyond 15 minutes in office. Mehnat ki kamaat hun yaaro.
Immediately my phone vibrates and I expect a message with some profanities. But it was little different. The message read "Naukr Saale"
FYI Mannu Bhai is a businessman.
Dhakka laga magar phir socha ..ki bhai sach hi to bol raha hai. Naukr hi hain hum.
But then the film director in me buzzed...and I thought it was a good title of a play...Naukr Saale! A play on the atrocities, limitations and imprisonment on being at a job.
The 'important partner' was late so I called up Manu Bhai and had a good chat and then thought of putting in my thoughts around naukri and Naukr Saale.And NOW that the 'important partner' just walked into our office...I will continue writing after a break.
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
Hmm...so let me tell you that I am obsessed with or rather not obsessed with my job i.e naukri.
I feel its a prison...that you have to spend a significant part of your life fulfilling the wishes of your boss or your organisation...in return of a salary...with which you may fulfill your own wishes. But do we actually do that? or are we really able to do that?...yeah in the few days of leave that you get.
Whenever I share this with anyone of my friends or my best friend (my wife)...I get the standard reply....no one in the world likes to work. Then how is this mafia operating? if everybody hates it.
I know there are some gangs that allow you some freedom...like work from home or something...thats a good step to offset some of the atrocities of work like travel and being their in time. You can work at home in a relaxed manner. But still does it allow you to have the freedom of doing what YOU want. Surely not.
Technically you have signed up for a job and you werent forced. So, the society thinks its ok. But do you really think that most people are doing their jobs in the way they are doing because thats what they wanted to do.
I hardly meet a executive or a office colleague saying....Oh! I always wished to sell insurance for XXX Insurance or I really wanted to work in the department of fisheries.
People are studying in school and then they take up some course...lets say electrical engineering and then somebody says...your must do an MBA and finally they land up selling Xray machines for a healthcare company. I mean agar samaan hi bechna tha to bagal ke Gupta Grocery store men hi internship kar lete. Why this whole circle of degrees?
I think I am digressing from the topic. Our issue is Naukr Saale!
So, everybody knows what a naukr connotes...a butler, a slave.
Sorry to detract again..Mannu Bhai messages...'Hum Maalik Bechaare'
aata hun ispe bhi..but let me focus right now.
so a naukr is a naukr...a demeaned character meant to obey orders. Thats essentially most of us are....or at least the people who got a job through naukri.com
☺
Its in our culture I think. The privilege which perhaps some average executive gets sitting in Europe or America is not what we have in India. Try calling an executive after work in Europe and leave it...try even asking for his mobile phone number. Forget it.
Yeh sirf yehin hai...ya perhaps in the so called economically developing or economically under-developed world.
But I guess it doesnt even change with money...Look at the Senior VPs of most corporates...with high blood pressure and their uric acid levels.
Aaj to saari bhadaas nikalunga. Aaj Friday hai...Kaam bhi kum hai aur agle do din chutti hai. And anyways I think writing a blog for a few minutes is much better than surfing FB or looking at flipkart...which I have seen many of my colleagues do...to take a break looking at their monitors.
To naukr saalo!
If you have read till this point then definitely you agree with me or I have become a good writer or you are good friend of mine wanting to know ki yeh Shankar Musafir saala karta kya hai zindagi men?
Waise my Dad says tumko bolne ke paise milte hain.
Anways...going on... and talking about the original Musafir...my grandfather. He used to say that 'Naukri jo hai...who Chaakri honi chahiye' yaani 'cha' hona chahiye...something you enjoy. So, I love being in the school education field and I like it. so it is chaakri but yet it is not it coz I have to deal with my boss and the politics of it all.
To kya karun..naukri chor dun. start something of my own. Thats a big risk...Home Loan...Biwi kehti hai nayi gaadi le lo and I have zero savings.
And most of it all...Darr lagta hai yaar. What if it doesnt work?
And then successful entrepreneurs like Mannu Bhai send messages like 'Maalik Bechaare'
I am stuck and I have no answer.
Might as well get back to work and see how I can impress the 'important partner'
See you and Love you.
P.S - The word for naukri in Bengali is Chaakri. Also, I plan to add some more to this article...I dont rest beyond 15 minutes in office. Mehnat ki kamaat hun yaaro.
