Last week, I met this friend of mine, after a long time.
He was rising in corpo world as if he had rocket propulsion. Very smart and a damn nice guy. A true believer in the India shining story, he & his wife lived life. His wife had taken a sabbatical & has been chilling out for a while. Lots of us envied this lovely twosome.
Suddenly Life happened, in its fully shitty glory. my friend lost his job. Plain simply - he got restructured or right sized or whatever.
Its been 3 weeks or so, he still cant believe it. Denial, anger, rage, depression & some good old Old Monk happened - in random order. He has just realized that he has just enough money for 3 months more.
Do you know his biggest shock - companies & head hunters who wanted a small slice of his erstwhile precious time, are now avoiding him as his layoff is infectious!
Do you know his biggest shock - companies & head hunters who wanted a small slice of his erstwhile precious time, are now avoiding him as his layoff is infectious!
He cant get over this face? His big thing in life was the fact that he is a very central actor in life as it played around him.
That has changed .. he has become suddenly irrelevant to life. Thats the part that he is struggling with the most
We spoke at length, he asked me for help & advice - my advice seemed so trite & so utterly useless, straight out an agony aunt column. I felt really lousy, and very helpless.
I guess the only help I could be to my friend was to be there to hear him, be there for advice & as a sounding board.
Anyway, the point about this is that we are likely to see many more people seeing this as the world convulses in economic agony.
Till then, Good Luck !!
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