Infrastructure around nothingness....

WHAT IS NOTHINGNESS? Nothingness is one's feeling immediately after one has lost a job. Suddenly the job stress is gone. You feel that some one has opened your skull and taken away a rock. What is left is the feeling of nothingness!!! This feeling is quite akin to the one when you hear your boss blabbering away to glory on some inconsequential topic and your mind wanders off to the land of nothing...

Anyways, the question is what does one do when one gets NOTHINGNESS. India has been a land of karmayogis and therefore Indians do not relate well to any one out of job or sitting at home doing nothing. Your neighbors think you are good for nothing, your parents think you have done something awful at your work place and your maid keeps wondering when will you free up TV so that she can get back to her saas bahu bickering stuff.......

I think in a country where losing a job is going to be a regular occurrence, we need a lot of infrastructure surrounding nothingness....Here are a few ideas....

• JOBASHRAM: A lot of companies today "indulge" in community services. They set aside a sum of money every year towards community services. Actually, many of these organizations are leaders in creating joblessness. My suggestion is to use their community service program to clean the community mess that they themselves have created. The monies set aside for community services can be used to open JOBASHRAMS. All "sackers" (decision makers who fire people either out of a whim or due to some pathological reasons) should also be asked to contribute 5 days of their salary every month for JOBASHRAMS. The monies so collected can be used to fund JOBASHRAMS - a place where people with nothingness can hang out, network, share their experiences, bitch about their bosses and make friends. This way the maids too will get more TV time.
• AA GROUP: Anti-sacking Anonymous group - AA group is behavior correction facility for habitual sackers. AA group would be made of people from both sides - the "sackers" and the "sacked ones". Each sacker would be compulsorily asked to meet each and every individual that he has sacked once a week. Every week the people with nothingness will describe in detail what they are going through to their respective sackers. NO EARPLUGS ALLOWED! All sackers who have sacked 5 people or more should compulsorily attend AA at least once a week. Again the funding required for the group should come from the sackers 5 days salary in a month.
• PS 3 / X-BOX / NINTENDO / PC GAMES: We would request another 5 days of sackers pay to create a venture capital fund that will provide seed funding to gaming companies. The funding would be made available to promote and create anti-boss, anti-sackers games that provide much needed stress relief to all the existing sufferers - either with jobs or the "sacked ones" The one with jobs may have to pay a bit to enjoy these games. The sackers can keep scores and reward high scorers from their provident funds.

As is usually the case with everything in India, it will take eons before this very basic infrastructure is in place. But my sincere urge to all fellow sufferers is to rise and make a small beginning somewhere so that both you and I can enjoy NOTHINGNESS!!!

Jaihind!