Our Cities like Hyderabad ,Bangalore,Pune or Mumbai have seen multiplication of Population as well as vehicles.likewise the salaries of IT Sector employees have seen a sharp rise not seen in any other sector. Plenty of money in hands makes our mind like unbriddled horse weak people fall prey to drinks and women, some unable to hold their huge salaries go in for lavish spending and luxuries.Money earned is not everything,unlimited daily work in Office and trying to reach office in hurry in the dense traffic and repeat same exercise while returning home makes one feel un prepared for this stressful life.,work-work -work and no time to play makes one feel sick., a day come when one feel money cannot give all the happiness which hapiness can be felt when one enjoys in the compasny of near and dear and in good company and family and friend circle.After all the day's hard and painful work- one feels"This is a mad mad mad world'
RE:stress faced by citizens in growing Cities
by Lal on Mar 20, 2008 02:38 AM Permalink
I agree with you. You need a balance life. Foreign investors want one thing and one thing only: Profit. Profit by any means. If that means making people work all day then let that be it. We all lose in the end. Its not just people that are suffering, so is nature. When profit crosses nature, nature will lose. Same goes with people's lives. India has a such a rich culture and its being destroyed. Greed is taking over. People now marry just because you work for Google (money!) rather than who you are. You only have to look to the west to see the destruction it brings to people's lives. Foreign ivestors are impatient lot. They want their investment doubled and trippled and they don't care who stands in the way. In a way we all want that but at what cost?
RE:stress faced by citizens in growing Cities
by Paramesh Paramesh on Mar 20, 2008 09:04 PM Permalink
but at what cost? That is the question one has to find answers himself/herself. Yes, everybody wants profit. A person works for google and hence has to give a new product at whatever rate the market demands. Otherwise, that person is not required to work for google. Has anybody heard about wheels of chariot of Jagannadha..?? The way all companies work is on the same principle. If that is too fast for you, please take voluntary retirement in which case the persons wife divorces and the kids will be away from that person. Either way it is music from all the sides for IT professionals. Actually most of the products from google or microsoft come from kids in US and UK schools. What Indian IT is doing is testing them. For that so much of stress..!! Laughing stock !!! P.S: I am a microsoft hired product developer living in a remote village in north India.
RE:RE:stress faced by citizens in growing Cities
by Paramesh Paramesh on Mar 20, 2008 09:05 PM Permalink
One need not balance your life. IT companies will do that for u.
RE:stress faced by citizens in growing Cities
by Lal on Mar 20, 2008 10:21 PM Permalink
That's because you are now dependent on these companies and hence they control your lives. Your life revolves around them. The balance is how these companies define it. Its sad. Don't get me wrong. Not all greed is bad. Greed is the reason why we have so many wonderful things these days. However, this also brings bad greed. Look at what is going on with this sub-prime mess in US. Lives are destroyed by these unscruplous people who took advantage of innocent people through predatory lending practices. Or CEO that tell outright lies and destroy the company and yet walk away with millions while company staff, through no fault of their own, are left laid-off. These same people that worked long hours, gave up much of their home lives to help this company are now jobless thanks to the practices of their top management, who have left to retire to their 20 bedroom mansions.
As 5 five fingers are not alike, so are people in a community. As some said here, pressure of work, competition, salary, appraisal, EMI, trust(girl friend/boy friend), marriage all needs to be balanced. Some can cope with it but some can't. It just take one second of positive thinking to avert suicide. And the reason mostly being, lonely all the time. Even having parents around, would keep you happy sometimes. I have seen people at work having ego or differences over race, decision or issues won't talk too much with group. They go home late and keeps mum there too. I don't know what they gain out of it. They should keep themself in comfort zone, shouldn't they. Teens will suicide for not studying or love failures. Again, its feeling which make you the most lonely person in the world. And to think that, rest of the world is more happy and having high stature in society with myself being the only one loosing everything...
I will like to share some words from CBSE school books front pages. "I will give you a talisman. Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest person whom you have seen and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to that person. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to Swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions? Then you will find y
Hi guys, you are absolutely correct, but you have to think about your planning done by Your Manager. Indian BPO's want to impress the client, for example, in US the same job can be done in 1000 hrs, in India the manager will estimate for 200 hrs to impress client and also get quick money. This will have huge stress with the people. This attitude has to be changed, then only you can avoid stress. And also, I have noticed, people doesn't start work for atleast 3 hrs of their arrival, they go for long breaks, chit chatting and so on. They will start working from after 2.00 pm say exm. they wont finish the task at 6.00 pm, so they have to stay and work late, this concept has to be changed. In US, people start working when they walk in to the office and work until 8 hrs. That is the different. So in order to relive stress, one must consider the planning the job and execute it perfectly. Then you wont have stress. Working late and impressing Manager wont resolve the issue.
Also I noticed if you work more hours, people cannot produce good quality work. work effeciently and timely manner you will achieve it. You will be relived from the stress. This is my advice to you all.
You can always express to your manager that this job will require this many hours of effort, so you will have to increase the delivery date by few more weeks or months. Ask your manager to give realsitic date not a junk date. That will help you in reliving stress.
For men one of the biggest stressors is marriage . After marriage their suicide rate almost doubles.
Upto 23000 of the suicdes of men are marriage related. An unfeeling or nagging wife , lifestyle demainding , someone who demands large emi based large penthouse seems to be cause of suicide for large number of married men . Per crime bureau 23000 married men die due to this .Since there is no psychologist group whic understands this it is unlikely to reduce
For women also around 8000 women commit suicide due to marriage since a large chunk of it is unfortunately classified as dowry harassment though other factors are the real root cause of such suicide does not surface. Due to this again and over focus on dowry for women there sucide cannot be brought down since the real reasons are not addressed
Bangalore is suicide capital because it has only IT/BPO workers who are pampered. Number one, they drive other people who cannot afford bangalore crazy and drive them to suicide. Number two, these IT/BPO workers themselves are tortured by their bosses to work like dogs to increase productivity and competition is unleased among team members and the dogs go on to work like donkeys and the best donkey is retained the others are put into performance improvement plan and later laid off. The performing donkeys get depressed due to work pressure and commit suicide, those who get laid off suddenly feel they are paupers and commit suicide. Others take to crime to make money, get depressed and commit suicide. those who get caught commit suicide. and those who are still in those companies live in glorified westernized world and get into unwanted relations and commit suicide. Others are forced to sleep with their bosses in what is called 'promotion couch' (wonder what the IT companies mean by performance, is it performance in bed?) get depressed and commit suicide. So that is why it is the suicide capital of the world.
RE:Why suicide capital?
by Subramaniam Iyer on Mar 16, 2008 02:25 PM Permalink
Unfortunately lot of things get bloated out of proportion. What we have is "reported news" wherein stress related death is higher in the northern part of India where it is not "reported" in the media. Bangalore is left to face the brunt. If I kill myself, I cannot be puny enough to blame it on other elements...
RE:Why suicide capital?
by Janardhanan M on Mar 19, 2008 11:13 AM Permalink
Why are you still alive? As per your above statement every one will commit suicide... What a stupid comment
Admittedly,Bangalore is full of uncouth,degenerate,educated uneducated humans if i may call them so. Mumbai is not far behind in the race.Despite raj Thjackeray's Marathi Manus,Shiv sena's marathi manus,has become a nincompoop,not because they are so,but because their leaders are nincompoops.Maharashtrians are endowed with a culture which very few in India can match,with a history of sacrifice,battle,intelligence,entrepreneurship.We do not need a Thackerey to tell us how good we are .We know we are good.The almighty knows it,the marathis know it.Thackereys pl concentrate on making money while the son shines.If you have a little bit of feeling for the poor,please call for an all poor meet for an open discussion without your goondas.You have to know,that is if you know hinduism at all,violence begets violence,love begets love. If you are men enough ,send your brigade to fight the terrorists.
Re: Bangalore the suicide capital.Mumbai is bigger.
by sai on Dec 21, 2013 10:40 PM Permalink
if you are man enough, instead of ranting on web from your couch, get out and lead, because you are weak, you are led by Thackrey, he is the political class, he is running the system, instead of thanking him, you are ranting here. If you have problem, replace him, if you can't face the consequence that you are weak, and were meant to be ruled, and vent your frustration here on rediff.
