In the Thick of Pink

I hope this post finds you in the pink...of health, I mean. Lots of guys are reeling under a heap of pink...pink slips, I hope you steer clear from it, that is! A Lehman Brothers employee has written about the mood in his office. He says that he has nothing to do with the cause of the hurricane Lehman that swept US and most of his colleagues are now worried - who would want to employ them now?

If you had been someone who had been responsible for it, my dear friend, you would have got the fattest severance package in the history of US mega corporations! And some dozen offers to boot from several firms to take them to dizzier heights, just for the thrills they seek.

By the way, since the US has been in the habit of naming hurricanes, why don’t they even begin naming the now certain waves of ‘financial crisis’, which also happen with some degree of certainty and regularity. The last wave saw the closure of Enron and Worldcom. This wave has just begun and has already seen several corporations reeling – Freddie Mac, Fanny Mae, Merrill Lynch, AIG, Lehman Brothers and still counting.

Maybe what we have seen is just the tip of the iceberg, the US Financial Crisis is the biggest misadventure in recent times. Recent times, incidentally means since the 1920’s, which saw the Great Depression!

Back home, there are huge signboards which scream:

“TV HO TO BIG TV HO!”
[Hindi for "If you must have a TV, it must be BIG TV"]

So, if one shouts out this slogan across mountains like Amitabh Bacchan does in “The Last Lear”, an echo will be heard from across the continents, thus:

“FINANCIAL CRISIS HO TO BIG FINANCIAL CRISIS HO!”
If truth be told, calling it a ‘financial crisis’ is a euphemism by itself, reducing the impact on what could be otherwise called a biggest fraud on innocent taxpayers and honest investors committed by builders, bankers and undeserving borrowers.

BTW, if you thought only people face the pink slip, think again. Some words in English are also facing the same fate. The Collins Dictionary is considering dropping 26 words from its next edition, since nobody is really using them. Read the report here - Words out of English Dictionary.

Now, Surgery will be assisted by Robots!
Recent reports and an article in Mumbai Mirror suggest that robots would be able to assist surgeons better than Operation Theatre nursing assistants.

So would nursing assistants also face a pink slip?

If someone really deserves a pink slip, it is the terrorists, who have been striking at regular intervals in this region - for doing their jobs well, though. But to do the honors, India’s Home Minister needs to take some tough action, or face the very same prospect – of a pink slip.

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