REPRESSION HIT!!

‘Repression’ was the flavor of the season thoughout year 2008-2009. Now before you drain your brains thinking what repression is, I will make the task easier for you. Repression,according to me, is nothing but Recession and Depression coming together. Repression managed to scare the daylights almost out of everybody. My term in MBA was smeared all over with repression. The initial half with negatives of repression and second half with positives of the same.

In the initial half I saw my seniors jobless. Companies were not hiring people citing recession, leading seniors into depression. Layoffs, cost cutting had become routine words in the vocabulary. Amidst all this chaos I was wondering my fate in my final year.But thankfully situation changed for the better. The economy revived bringing smiles to many gloomy faces.

Being a member of placement committee distributing placement bulletins to various firms is part of my job. I really enjoy doing this. The funny thing that I experienced is that wherever we went to distribute the bulletins, the recruiters were offering urgent openings. Which means we were in the pavillion(for the time being) and seniors were in the field! Its okay….all is well till now.

When recession was in full glory, most of the people were surviving on a shoestring budget. I remember, almost year ago, my friends and I were out for a lunch in a restaurant. The restaurant is sort of ok. But they seemed to be desperate to control their budget. They were offering tissue papers on demand only! Now I found that extremely hilarious…there were no tissue papers to fool around with. Desperate times calls for desperate measure. I don’t know whether currently that restaurant is out of recession or not..i never cared to go back.

Recently I was hanging out with my friends at a coffee shop in town. I have visited that place enough to remember most of its items mentioned in its menu card along with their prices! But this time they had a surprise in store. This shop, once upon a time, used to offer a medium sized cup brimming with coffee and covered with cream…delicious! Just the thought makes me drool …..mmm….ok now..coming back to coffee…But this time when that sizzling coffee came, I was rolling over my chair, laughing like crazy. Trust me friends….one look at the coffee and you would feel that the cup is screaming out loud…..I AM RECESSION HIT!!! The cup was one tiny weeny thing. You can barely manage to slip your index finger into its handle for the sake of holding it. I should say it was a peg of coffee and not a cup of coffee! That cup reminded me of my childhood days where I used to play with toy kitchen sets and had fake tea parties. I guess those cups were bigger than this! I wonder what else has been downsized there!!

These were some funny instances surrounding recession..will update more as and when I recollect them.