Recession Talk!!!

In the pool of insufficiency, everyone is equal and therefore content; this is what came to my mind with the word recession. Recession!!! Possibly was greatest slogan for past few years and getting to hear it again now. Some of my friends were having a discussion on this last week and were gauging the effect it would have on us.

The problem of recession; your company is not individually responsible for this. But it feels cheated, robbed of the comfort zone of a promising economy. Now an organization is a person because it is run by people. This is why it reacts to upsetting situations in much the same way we would. How would you react where you are not in control of your external environment? You would feel insecure, lonely and act irrationally. I’m sure most of you would have seen strange new rules being implemented in your company; rules that probably had no relation to cost-cutting.

India is not actually in ‘recession’, as we have been told in figures, with a growth rate that Europe and the US would kill for. (If at all, we can ignore the growth rate in last two quarters, but at large we have been doing well)

This brings to light the dark side of human nature- the need to exploit a situation to one’s advantage. If you’re suddenly given an extra dose of power, a tool with which you control others, it’s bound to go to your head. But how easy it is to forget the path that you have taken, to wipe away the empathy that you believed you formerly had. So it’s no surprise when your company says that increments are a privilege not a right; that appraisals are not worth the effort.

Like the submissive personality in the relationship, the employee will accept these terms and conditions. If this is happening to everyone, then there is no fear of comparison.