Okay I agree I have already written about a similar topic earlier but last week I came across a few examples which made me think of it once again. And the peculiar thing about these examples is that all of them involve instances of individuals getting replaced and not the businesses. I'll tell you about these examples in the order in which they occurred. I work in Belapur (yes, the same place where your neighbor would have gone for a one-day picnic last Sunday) and I stay in Ghatkopar (the most happening suburb), so everyday I have to change trains from Ghatkopar-Kurla-Belapur and back. It’s been almost eight months since I have been doing this. Any person who has done the same would agree that I actually deserve a Bharat Ratna award for this! Though traveling from Kurla to Belapur is not that much of a pain but it is the Ghatkopar-Kurla route (distance of only two stations) which squeezes all energy out of me, literally! So I actually plan to write this as one of my achievements on my resume.
It is during the journey from Kurla-Belapur that I get to listen to radio and this is when I came across one of the examples which I wish to mention. Though this has been happening for a long time it struck me just last week. I heard Raju Srivastav radio jockeying on one of the radio stations. I agree we all know this and there is nothing shocking about it but I was just thinking that when he first appeared on some channel he was competing with other stand-up comedians and now suddenly he has replaced some radio jockey! On reaching office I met a friend of mine who was busy making arrangements for an auction to sell secondary products and this is the second example. Earlier the secondary products used to be sold by individuals who would meet the prospective buyers personally but today a system is in place which makes it possible for the prospective buyers to just log in online and start bidding. Again, auction is not a new thing but it's just that it is being used for something which was earlier done by individuals (who were highly paid). What happens now is that only one person (he need not be qualified, so less costly to hire) is required to handle the whole auction and once it starts the person can go out for a coffee as he is also not required to remain there! On coming back home I saw my brother ordering food from a nearby restaurant. When asked, he told me that there was some problem with the LPG stove and that mother had gone to purchase a new stove. Next day a rickshaw wala, who had been sent by the store where my mother had placed the order for a new stove, came with the stove. But no one from the store accompanied him so I assumed somebody would come later on for the installation. But then I saw that the same rickshaw wala started doing the installation. Later he mentioned that he had been trained by the store to do the installation as well so that no other person would have to be employed!
It seems everyone is under threat of being replaced unless you are actually doing something which only you can do as I am doing (writing long and boring blogs about topics nobody is interested in).
It is during the journey from Kurla-Belapur that I get to listen to radio and this is when I came across one of the examples which I wish to mention. Though this has been happening for a long time it struck me just last week. I heard Raju Srivastav radio jockeying on one of the radio stations. I agree we all know this and there is nothing shocking about it but I was just thinking that when he first appeared on some channel he was competing with other stand-up comedians and now suddenly he has replaced some radio jockey! On reaching office I met a friend of mine who was busy making arrangements for an auction to sell secondary products and this is the second example. Earlier the secondary products used to be sold by individuals who would meet the prospective buyers personally but today a system is in place which makes it possible for the prospective buyers to just log in online and start bidding. Again, auction is not a new thing but it's just that it is being used for something which was earlier done by individuals (who were highly paid). What happens now is that only one person (he need not be qualified, so less costly to hire) is required to handle the whole auction and once it starts the person can go out for a coffee as he is also not required to remain there! On coming back home I saw my brother ordering food from a nearby restaurant. When asked, he told me that there was some problem with the LPG stove and that mother had gone to purchase a new stove. Next day a rickshaw wala, who had been sent by the store where my mother had placed the order for a new stove, came with the stove. But no one from the store accompanied him so I assumed somebody would come later on for the installation. But then I saw that the same rickshaw wala started doing the installation. Later he mentioned that he had been trained by the store to do the installation as well so that no other person would have to be employed!
It seems everyone is under threat of being replaced unless you are actually doing something which only you can do as I am doing (writing long and boring blogs about topics nobody is interested in).
Yaar, u've got competition... we can replace each other in writing looong and boring blogs.. ;-)
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