There was a lot going on this week, which is why there is such an extensive number of tweets we have covered in this week’s social media roundup. The MCSI degradation is on top of the list, and we also implore all of our corporate readers to take a break and not kill themselves over their job. Ariba Shahid brings you all this and more.
The glass is definitely half empty
Just got kicked out of Harvard, will be joining Iqra university. But I will be like big fish in small pond. https://t.co/uIGBKK718e
— Kamraan 🇵🇸 (@heavymetalkop) June 25, 2021
Everything can be constructed as good news if you’re optimistic enough. With the MSCI mulling over downgrading Pakistan’s status to a frontier market, we can’t help but be annoyed at the countless tweets on twitter being optimistic. We don’t understand why people do not get that a downgrade is a downgrade. It simply means you’re not good enough to be there. Regardless of the number of opportunities it opens for you, no one really picks being a big fish at Iqra university, or any university over being a small fish at Harvard by choice. That decision is usually based on money, but that is a different conversation.
Take a chill pill
Peak horrific LinkedIn pic.twitter.com/1Pqx0ZOjeF
— Sam Hodges (@SamHodges) June 20, 2021
Over the past few weeks we have established that Linkedin is cringeworthy. However, today no matter how much we want to, we will not focus on that. Instead we’re going to say that working in the corporate world is fine. There’s no harm in that but becoming a corporate slave is something we are not on board for. Dude, relax, take some time off work for your baby. And if you do not want to, at least don’t post about it on linkedin to show off. Maybe it will also give you some time to think and reflect on the reality of the soulless corporate existence that you have chosen to make your life.
A short punchline
Context: Bought @airblueairline ticket using a virtual card (for eg. an Apple Card). After purchasing, I was notified that I can not fly because the physical card does not have numbers on it! https://t.co/5HVY2NY230
— Munir Usman (@MunirUsman) June 25, 2021
Digital Pakistan. That’s it, that’s the joke. Anyway, not all cards have numbers. What should matter is that your payment has been received. But I guess that isn’t important because who cares?
Pay me more please
No seriously, I feel the starting salaries in Pakistan are getting lower over time…?
— M.S 🪁🌲🌳🌴🚴🚉🏙 (@ShaykShack) June 25, 2021
Either my salary is shrinking or everything else is getting WAY too expensive. Disposable income should now be called negligible incomes. However, in all seriousness there is a surplus of labor with businesses working on slim margins. Even though the minimum wages have increased, we NEED MORE MONEY.
Recruitment woes
P&G will make you go through thousand types of assessments before hiring and then they make advertisement campaigns like this head and shoulder kandhay se bojh hata dou move
— Shahrukh (@shahrookhh) June 24, 2021
I remember going through the excruciatingly long recruitment process at P&G only to be asked if I was willing to work at a high-end parchoon ki dukaan. It is a shame though, how the selection process is aimed at finding the most creative minds and out of the box thinkers in a batch, only to make them conform to boring campaigns thought out years ago.
The secret ID card collection
I dont get why it is Indispensable to attach hardcopy of CNIC for most simple transactions through a bank I hold account in. They have all my data and are linked to NADRA.
We defeated the Red army but its the Red-tapism thats destroying us.@taidrus @nadeemhaque @ShahidMohmand79— Muhammad Ammad (@Ammadjanjuaa) June 24, 2021
We’re going to stop asking questions about why they need so many photocopies of CNICs. Instead, we’re going to focus on where they keep these copies. Do they dig up a hole every few years and bury them? Do they recycle the paper? Do they collect them so they can make fun of our pictures? What is up bro?
How to get a loan
Yesterday I was involved as witness in a financial transaction. Auto rickshaw worth 290,000, given on a down payment of 120,000 and 30 further installments of 10k per month. On the face of it, its expensive financing but the whole process took less than 60 minutes (1/3)
— Karim (@kjindani) June 20, 2021
Is it possible to provide loans without making people jump through hoops? The formal financial system is complicated and sometimes all it takes is for someone to look at informal ways to realize how inefficient the formal system sometimes is. If it takes an hour max to finance a rikshaw at a store, banks with large networks should be able to do the same more efficiently.
Desperate times
What if you cut the phone every 4 minutes and 59 seconds and call the person back? https://t.co/XuTgvLuxLq
— Arhum (@arhuml92) June 25, 2021
This is the life hack you need. We won’t say much, desperate times call for desperate measures. And while we encourage the payment of taxes, sometimes it’s good to rebel against good things imposed at the wrong places.
Please take a break
— JASH JAY (@TheJASHJAY) June 21, 2021
Never having taken a vacation or some time off is not a flex. It just shows you may be insecure about being away from work, do not have much going on in your private life because of work, or society has conditioned you to be a corporate slave. Go take that much needed break. Go. We dare you.
White vloggers
. @jonathanvswan ‘s TL will never be the same. I’m not sure he signed up for this. He will be tagged for years about things he doesn’t care about. My commiserations.
— Shakir Husain (@shakirhusain) June 22, 2021
If you’re white and you visit Pakistan, we treat you like royalty. That is until you say something bad about Pakistan or offend our fragile sentiments and egos. Swan did just that to a number of PTI followers. Just like Brianna Golodryga’s social media went ablaze last month, we’re assuming Swan had some fun on twitter too.
