Most of the discussions on or off the work place directly or indirectly related to salaries. Points of discussion vary from ‘he must be earning x amount of salary’ to ‘this fellow doesn’t deserve this much salary’ etc… most of the tea time discussions focused on earnings.
Everyone individual ranging from Anil Ambani to Anil Polineni is having their own struggled past to sustain at a certain level or to make a living .In most of the cases, after 10 to 15 years of persistent hard by the virtue of god, virtue of manager, virtue of market condition, virtue of company’s growth, virtue of colleague’s support and luck by chance, life may give an opportunity for an individual to start and continue to earn few rupees or dollars or whatever the form it has.
I have seen days where my villagers used to exchange grown crop for most of their needs and all the life’s requirements was managed very well with that exchange process, for education also we used to pay rice etc...Even if few had little money that was just static in their pockets, there was never a need for money around 18 years back in and around my villages. I clearly remember the transition from crop exchange to money exchange, reason for this transition was the brokers who came in between, now money needs has grown leaps and bounds even in villages and its obvious that money is the only medium of exchange for everything.(1) The point here is money itself was never there and it was never a requirement, it was just created by us to exchange requirements.
I am sure everyone feels happy if we help a person with in our capabilities. Small example if someone is in very much need of a seat in train or bus while travelling, most of the people offer their seat, and the satisfaction we get after offering seat is enormous . (2)Everyone likes to help others if that helping process not impacting us in any way, there are exceptional people who compromise on themselves to help others.
Every human have their self defined lifestyle and all of us work only to fulfill defined life style. Life style of a beggar is eat food and sleep, so he just needs daily salary to eat food. Life style of common man is pay rent, fulfill the responsibilities of parents, brothers, sisters, dependants etc and save some money for future if possible. My life style is have enough money to live the life for next one month. So called rich also have their defined needs and pain is more if the rich life style is not fulfilled (3) Every life style requires monthly or daily salary to fulfill their defined minimum needs.
We see the people who don’t know anything that person’s back ground, his struggle in life, his responsibilities but cry or crib on his/her salaries on and off the work. Typical comments are ‘This guy earning that much without doing anything’,’ why should company pay this much for this stupid fellow’, ‘ what the hell he/she is doing sitting in that position’, ‘this manager just take huge perk without much work’. To find a group who sing chorus with these kind of comments is easy and start their actions to their possible limits. On personal front I saw people who forcefully ask salaries and start their consequent actions like pulling your legs if they believe that you don’t deserve that much or if they think that you are above them, showing too much interest in knowing others salaries. It even happens between own sisters and brothers who feel jealous of each other’s earnings. First thing most people want to know when you call abt a new job is earning capabilities, when I met a classmate after 10 years ,first two questions he forced me to answer was me and my wife salaries. When I asked few colleagues about the reason for showing interest to know others salaries weird answers like ‘want to know where I stand in the market’, ‘want to know my position in the company based on others salary’ etc…not even a single valid reason.
When it comes to myself I can assure that you never find me showing interest for others earnings, I don’t initiate a discussion about salaries to satisfy my ego, I don’t even clearly know my wife salary.
When I was in my previous company, 2 people felt that I am getting more than what I deserve and started a meeting in McDonalds , invited others for support to complain against me, if they use that time to clean toilets in McDonalds atleast they would have made some money to themselves. By chance if someone earning more least we may do is observe and learn from them rather than try to pull them down. If anyone try to pull others do remember that they are above us that’s why we are trying to pull down.
Everyone’s feelings in this world look valid to me except the people who discuss on others earnings or who pass sarcastic praising. Read points 1, 2 and 3 again, you agree with me that everyone is earning just to fulfill their defined minimal needs and everyone wants to help others. So discussing on others earnings is nothing but trying to take away others happiness or trying to push others into problems intentionally. We can enjoy the real happiness of appreciating others and opportunity to learn from others be it relatives of friends or colleagues if there is no place for others earnings in mind. By saying all this I am not excluding myself, I am also part of this jungle.
Everyone individual ranging from Anil Ambani to Anil Polineni is having their own struggled past to sustain at a certain level or to make a living .In most of the cases, after 10 to 15 years of persistent hard by the virtue of god, virtue of manager, virtue of market condition, virtue of company’s growth, virtue of colleague’s support and luck by chance, life may give an opportunity for an individual to start and continue to earn few rupees or dollars or whatever the form it has.
I have seen days where my villagers used to exchange grown crop for most of their needs and all the life’s requirements was managed very well with that exchange process, for education also we used to pay rice etc...Even if few had little money that was just static in their pockets, there was never a need for money around 18 years back in and around my villages. I clearly remember the transition from crop exchange to money exchange, reason for this transition was the brokers who came in between, now money needs has grown leaps and bounds even in villages and its obvious that money is the only medium of exchange for everything.(1) The point here is money itself was never there and it was never a requirement, it was just created by us to exchange requirements.
I am sure everyone feels happy if we help a person with in our capabilities. Small example if someone is in very much need of a seat in train or bus while travelling, most of the people offer their seat, and the satisfaction we get after offering seat is enormous . (2)Everyone likes to help others if that helping process not impacting us in any way, there are exceptional people who compromise on themselves to help others.
Every human have their self defined lifestyle and all of us work only to fulfill defined life style. Life style of a beggar is eat food and sleep, so he just needs daily salary to eat food. Life style of common man is pay rent, fulfill the responsibilities of parents, brothers, sisters, dependants etc and save some money for future if possible. My life style is have enough money to live the life for next one month. So called rich also have their defined needs and pain is more if the rich life style is not fulfilled (3) Every life style requires monthly or daily salary to fulfill their defined minimum needs.
We see the people who don’t know anything that person’s back ground, his struggle in life, his responsibilities but cry or crib on his/her salaries on and off the work. Typical comments are ‘This guy earning that much without doing anything’,’ why should company pay this much for this stupid fellow’, ‘ what the hell he/she is doing sitting in that position’, ‘this manager just take huge perk without much work’. To find a group who sing chorus with these kind of comments is easy and start their actions to their possible limits. On personal front I saw people who forcefully ask salaries and start their consequent actions like pulling your legs if they believe that you don’t deserve that much or if they think that you are above them, showing too much interest in knowing others salaries. It even happens between own sisters and brothers who feel jealous of each other’s earnings. First thing most people want to know when you call abt a new job is earning capabilities, when I met a classmate after 10 years ,first two questions he forced me to answer was me and my wife salaries. When I asked few colleagues about the reason for showing interest to know others salaries weird answers like ‘want to know where I stand in the market’, ‘want to know my position in the company based on others salary’ etc…not even a single valid reason.
When it comes to myself I can assure that you never find me showing interest for others earnings, I don’t initiate a discussion about salaries to satisfy my ego, I don’t even clearly know my wife salary.
When I was in my previous company, 2 people felt that I am getting more than what I deserve and started a meeting in McDonalds , invited others for support to complain against me, if they use that time to clean toilets in McDonalds atleast they would have made some money to themselves. By chance if someone earning more least we may do is observe and learn from them rather than try to pull them down. If anyone try to pull others do remember that they are above us that’s why we are trying to pull down.
Everyone’s feelings in this world look valid to me except the people who discuss on others earnings or who pass sarcastic praising. Read points 1, 2 and 3 again, you agree with me that everyone is earning just to fulfill their defined minimal needs and everyone wants to help others. So discussing on others earnings is nothing but trying to take away others happiness or trying to push others into problems intentionally. We can enjoy the real happiness of appreciating others and opportunity to learn from others be it relatives of friends or colleagues if there is no place for others earnings in mind. By saying all this I am not excluding myself, I am also part of this jungle.
