There is onething which most of the software companies in Bangalore are after...., having their own Campus. Till recently (read as till 99), MNCs couldnt buy their own land in India for their manufacturing setups. This has been relaxed and behold, all the companies are buying subsidized land from government and building their dream structures.. Having all their heads (of the headcounts) under the few roofs of the building :))
By this what do they achieve?, reduced cost they say... As the cost of resources are increasing (including the salaries), they (so called planners) decide to move out of city and have a immovable property. No more rents to be paid! Some of them even boast of having plans to share that savings with their employees.. need to see how many actually did or planning to do.
But where do they move? to localities which are earmarked by politicians and their near ones who have their own selfish goals. Sell few tens of acres to a software company and have all the surrounding areas for future real estate profitting... and that is how we have so many tech-parks in Bangalore.
These companies collect their employees from all parts of the city and take them for grazing green grass in the office campus. At the end of the day, they bring back to their respective (cow)sheds. Nice cow boys making green money, you see :)
Employees who are born and brought up here, have a king of attached feelings to their home, surroundings. Or simply they own the houses. People who have come from outside Bangalore are nevertheless care where they are staying. These people can always shift their residence nearby to the campus. Who cares even if it is costly there? These people are software engineers, you know! They are young, rich and successful (?) people... All the renowned (by these people) builders poach them to buy their flats... Flats, to me seems like, are places to live a 'temporary life'. I guess most of the people who 'live' in flats, always dream of having an independant home, home sweet home, sometime in their life...
But what about those people who have lived all their life till now in some place in Bangalore? Do they have to move to a rented house closer to the campus? Do they have to buy a new 'home' leaving all the old memories? do they have move out of their families, leave behind parents with other siblings?
Given todays job market, we can avoid these questions. If the company is moving far away then quit and join some other which is in decent distance. It is after all our life, we have to live it to the day. Do we have to bother about working for the same company??
Staying at the same place and travelling to the new campus is a hectic life. You anyway got to change the life style. Either change your environment by shifting nearer or spending lot of time in travelling. For travelling daily routines have to be modified. You got to get up early, run to the bus stop where the company bus picks you up for grazing.... well, you would have forgotten the breakfast.. you are forced to have breakfast outside... you are taken to such a remote place that you wont be able to choose your food, ieat just what is served to you, at so called subsized (well, sodexho is subsidized) but expensive rate... In the evening, we have to wind up so that the company bus can drop back... Ultimately your life is being governed by so many of these unknown forces :)), life is no more yours, but you are just a slave....
you got to break this jail and choose your own life.
We are coolie #1 in India/world today, but we need to have control over our life and no one else should be controlling. We have will, power, right and options to choose better life.
How do people in developed countries handle?, They do go to work early, they do work eight hours straight a day, but no one is controlled by the companies. Everyone is independant, everyone can commute on their own chosen mode of commuting. Transportations facilities are good. Long travels never seem to be longer ones....
May be, Bangalore would also gear up with all these kind of facilities (of course, i paid my heavy tax for it..) one day... and then we wont have discussion at all.
Waiting for that day's light!!!
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