“All the slips colour we like!
The pink would put you on a spike!
The month end comes and it’s blank!
Hopefully there’s some green in the bank!”
Who would have thought that a bag to carry your stuff would be associated with losing your job!
read on!
Job security is one of the most important thing for any middle class person.
There was a joke that if you have a house loan then you will love your job! It was dark and true! The constant salary is something which is what most people want.
A post about being a founder and and entrepreneur was popular recently where the person posted that in spite of having a successful start up, he simply could not take the strain of having to source funding and having no constant salary!
Even as most soothsayers of the world tell how AI will be the thing of the future; most people are only worried how AI will take his or her job!
Even as competition moves forward and you get bogged down by bills and expenses; the lure of a ‘constant’ salary is what keeps you to the ground!
The ones who take risk like in the start up capital of India which is Bangalore; also have some resource locked up for at least an year after which they start to feel the pinch. The first few years are the ones when you do not have the constant salary and that is the biggest challenge! You have to sacrifice a lot to get to that point when you are financially independent which is the dream of every person in the world!
Which is why for a person with a constant salary, getting the pink slip or getting the sack is a death sentence!
The situation has not changed much in years apparently!
There are two origins of this term.
In the first origin, in ancient Rome, those convicted of parricide or the killing of a parent or other near relative or other heinous murders were tied in a sack and dumped into the Tiber River, instantly solving any potential recidivism problem!
The practice spread throughout many other European countries, and, as late as the nineteenth century, murderers in Turkey were tossed into the Bosporus in a sack!
Another more popular theory to explain how “get the sack” was recorded—as early as 1611 in France—is that it referred to craftsmen of the Middle Ages. Artisans carried their tools in sacks; while they worked, they handed the sacks to their employers. But then when when a craftsman got the sack, it meant that his services no longer were required.
He was left, literally, holding the bag!
Well, sack or not; the majority of the population of the world are living in the constant fear of this much more than any other fear! But all we can do is SACK it up and carry on!
Of course if you are a singer or an artist like Anandan “Drums” Sivamani then you do not have to worry about getting the ‘sack’!
Now fall on your ‘sack’ of mattress aka Bed and sleep!
Shubh Ratri!
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