HEART BEAT OF RECESSION

I am working in One of the Best MNC in our country.I heard that me and few of my friends will be getting release soon and the list is ready as well.
What will be the reason for the sudden down sizing of the team. Everything was going fine till yesterday. My teach lead Mr. Majid was looking for an onsite and promotion for long time and finally his visa is issued and he going to fly this week end. I am happy for him atleast something good is happening . He is having a good personality , good helping attitude and used to worship allah 5 times a day. May be because of his prayer he got a chance to go onsite.



There was a meeting in the conference room in the afternoon. I saw majid coming out of the room with sandeep. These are 2 person suppposed to travel this week end. I though the meeting was all about the travel. But Majid's face looks very sad and lost . I relaise that there is some thing wrong . Even in centralised AC majid was sweating. I asked him what happen majid. Man they have cancelled my travel. They are downsizing the onsite and offshore team so I am not travelling more over they are sending me out of the project.



I was really shocked. I saw his lips were shivering while explaining this to me .All this happens because of recesion. The word "recision " itself new to me. I dont have any issue with that ..

Because I am going to Portugal for a project everything is ready for the travel from an another project.Sooner i realised that the girl working with me is more distructive that recission.She went to onsite without my knowledge. I never understand that how she went onsite , with less years of experience than me... strange. I realise her talents very late.

She went onsite I remain here with out any reason.

I started looking for a project.Days passed by one by one ..... There were only few interviews and they are asking questions as if they were recruiting for SUN micro systems....

One usual afternoon i got a call from training center of my company. I have to work there as a trainer . I said ok to that without thinking anything else. In Indian MNC's we call that "The Bench" . Most of the people in my company had a good taste of bench. But being in bench at receission time is not safe. That decision to me to the training center of my company.

It was a different world. Its was like getting promotion from "Theehar" jail to "gauntinamo" jail. I feel safe atleast i am doing some work .
Days pass by like beads from a broken chain. Daily news will be coming with new updates on recesion. Soon a new topic was added to the news . The hot topic or the HOT NEWS....
The news of sending people out of the job.....

The color of IT job is gone. IT professional's demand went down faster that share markets...Every where tensions discussions.Finally we heared that our company is also start firing people. First turn was for the contract staffs, then comes the turn of people with bad performance...
Each and every one was worried and tensed to there maximum.People will faint if they get a call from HR or Admin.Stories of people fired from our company also came there.. but the number of people fired was keep on increasing in each stories...

Each person will think , I am safe I dont have a bad rating . I have good performance history. Still they cant able to control there heart beat. There are no new projects . Onsite is a dream only.
One day while we were sitting on the office , one of our college got a call from HR.
He was scared like us. There was some thing going on inside HR room. After sometime he came back . His eyes are red in color and wet. He came back to his Cabin took his belongings and went back . I feel my entire body was freezed in a second. Heart is beating very fast. We all went out to cafeteria there we got confirmed that, he was fired.I dont know what that old guy will do after this . He was having 12 years of experience in this company and today the company has thrown him out.

When i return from cafeteria. My friend told me that i got a call from Admin. Suddenly i feel darkness around me . Still i took all my courage and went to admin room .
My heart was beating as if it is going to explode. I was praying to my gods that i know. I reached admin room and ask him the reason. He said he need some clarification on the bill i submitted for medical claim.I cant explain my happiness at that time...

But HR keep calling the names of my friends. The situation was very bad, that you cant find your friend who were sitting with you and talking just before you leave for the coffee..

The Cabins are getting empty. No chit chat no frequent breaks.
People are working like anything knowing that they will be thrown out at any time.....