Everyone’s A Whore.

We just sell different parts of ourselves.

Some sell their souls. Nothing wrong with that. Some beg to differ. I beg to differ.

Been thinking about how to put this encounter across in the best way I can but there isn’t a best way to explain this. Only the brutal truth.

2020, the year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Pandemic or not. I’m glad it happened for it has shed light to show me the ugliest side of humanity. I struggled with this issue because I didn’t expect how selfish and heartless some people can be. Granted, they had no choice but there is certainly always a choice and yet they choose not see it.

Yes, people come and go. Yes, we can fire them and get new people in when times get better. What irks me the most was that they might not have to make such a tough decision at all? There was a choice.

TL;DR Management gave a proposition for the managers to consider if they didn’t want to “suffer” and continue taking unpaid leave. Fire x number of people and your whole department does not have to take anymore unpaid leave.

Who even does that?

Despite having a good run during Mid-Autumn, we were told to continue taking unpaid leave. The fact that they were willing to give this proposition shows that they did not have to make us take unpaid leave at all but rather they would do anything to cut costs when an opportunity arises.

Sure, we did well. No one is smiling. No one is happy. As a matter of fact, everyone is leaving. The irony is laughable, really.

As I sat through that entire encounter, I knew for a fact that I cannot stay in this place much longer. It’s one thing to be unethical but it’s another to completely lack empathy and lose your soul. Tough decisions have to be made in the darkest of times. Everyone understands that but to seize this opportunity to possibly, sack people unfairly and cut costs? That’s just a plain dick move.

Perhaps it was put across poorly. Perhaps if we put such news across happily, we can swipe it aside and not question its ethicality. Perhaps we can come up with many more excuses to tell ourselves we had no choice.

It’s not.

The lack of empathy appalled me. The deviousness of the proposition disgusted me. How do you smile and say such things with a straight face will forever be a wonder to me. The entire time, my mind was in a whirlwind. What the fuck is wrong with these people? I literally wanted to puke. Cruel is an understatement. The sad truth is, this is how the world works. It always will.

Corporations are like that. Accept it. Employees are dispensable like that. Accept it. What happened is totally normal. Accept it.

It’s not. So what now?

We do better. We make sure we don’t follow suite. Some things are much more important than selling your soul to the devil.

It’s one thing to do better than them but it also equally important to make sure that we resolve these issues as well. We keep saying we want to make the world a better place for our future generations. When it boils down to such deep-seated issues. We make excuses rather than face it. So tell me, how do we progress then?

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