The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, also known as the Amritsar Massacre, was named after the Jallianwala Bagh of Amritsar where, on April 13, 1919, British Indian Army soldiers fired and placed the fatalities at over 1000.
Like British Indian Army killed hundreds of unarmed-defenseless Indians, the unemployment rate soared to a nearly five-year high in August after continuous rounds are firing at major companies on employees. The U.S. economy has lost 6,05,000 jobs so far this year.
With almost unseemly prescience, the organizations see the people on the front lines as expendible cogs in their machine. They don’t need those parts for a while. So they will just off-load them and then replace them with new ones when they need them again.
After Jallianwala Bagh Massacre "Viceroy Chelmsford" characterized the action as "an ERROR of judgment,". And here CEO of big organizations characterized the action as "based on deteriorating global economic conditions". I don't have to be freedom fighter to know the reason of Jallianwala Bagh OR an economist to know the economy is weak.
In many cases the executives of the very companies cutting jobs and closing plants then go on to receive fat annual bonuses, often driven by the very cuts they made – and we wonder why people think badly of business?
I am not against companies making profits; anyone who doesn’t see profitability as an important objective of business shouldn’t run a company – profitability finances operations, including paying salaries. Unfortunately, business seems to hold a share in the good and shoulder the bad mentality towards their “rank and file” employees.
The Jallianwala Bagh is a cruel reminder of how hundreds of innocent Indian men, women and children were killed by General Dyer even after 89 years. I guess we will remember this time as well.
I am waiting "with hope" for the day when the executives of a large organization announce that they are taking a 50% pay cut and will forgoes all bonuses in the foreseeable future before they choose to close one plant and let one employee go.
