There was a bit of a scuffle on Twitter this week when in a major boomer moment, an executive tweeted about job retention and how people list their hobbies like ‘chilling’ on their CVs. While there is an extensive rejoinder to this down below, we must stress how important it is for our upcoming young professionals to be paid better and be given more benefits. That said, a lot else was going on this week as well as we considered exporting economists and the SBP found itself in the limelight again. Ariba Shahid brings you all this and more in this week’s social medai roundup.
Economists aplenty
— ; (@chalfithai) October 22, 2021
This is seventh generation warfare where you send the people that have brought the economy to shambles to another country. We didn’t have to do Afghanistan so dirty. Jokes aside, we have plenty of economists to go around. In fact we have enough to export. After all, everyone on twitter is an economic expert too. In fact, it would be quite nice if some of them went away elsewhere.
Where are the foreign job seekers?
The number of high-value design & development jobs opening in India, the likes of which are found in London, Singapore, Shanghai and New York, is remarkable. Unfortunately, as Pakistanis, we have walled ourselves away from them. Our loss. https://t.co/q8qJeb9bV2
— Gulraiz (@gulraizkhan) October 22, 2021
We heard that once this government comes into power people will travel from all over the world to seek jobs in Pakistan. While that hasn’t happened yet in Pakistan, the fact that it is happening in India is a good sign that it is possible once a better environment and opportunities are provided. And no, we don’t think the job of dedicate Pakistan vlogger should count as people coming from foreign countries to work in Pakistan.
Easy laughs
“The country’s supreme tax collection body was shocked after seeing the details of assets owned by the beggar, who is said to be the “richest” beggar of Multan.”https://t.co/t7iw8BGlAq pic.twitter.com/xOhGMFUdWf
— Uzair Younus عُزیر یُونس (@UzairYounus) October 22, 2021
Some jokes just write themselves. Imagine if the FBR was proactive where it needed to be rather than turning itself into a meme. But also interesting to see how beggars aren’t really as poor as we thought they would be. Or is that so?
Secret keeper
(n/n) I somewhat feel for SBP. They have to pretend that they control way more than they actually do. Perhaps it is time for them to say this out in public!
— Ahmed Jamal Pirzada (@ajpirzada) October 22, 2021
What does the SBP really control? Based on my expertise in the Netflix sensation Money Heist, I think they have control of the country’s gold and the nation’s secrets. And maybe some control of money supply. Inflation? Umm I’ll leave that up to you.
Where’s the money?
When I see someone say “I build businesses”, my natural reaction is, show me your bank statement
— Faisal Khan (@babushka99) October 22, 2021
I build businesses. I mean, if one of your businesses made money, you wouldn’t be making loads to begin with and trying your luck as hard as you are by multiple attempts. Show us the money you have.
What you see is what you get
Anyone with a Hotmail (or a Yahoo) email address shouldn’t be taken seriously anyway.
— Sanval Nasim (@SanvalNasim) October 22, 2021
Hey, it’s either my yahoo and Hotmail email with my name or my gmail email that is [email protected]. You choose what you prefer. There is no in between.
The good old days
If Pakistan truly wants to develop a technology sector there can never ever be government mandated internet shutdowns. For any reason. Anywhere. Period. There are a lot of tools in the toolkit to avoid unrest. Use them and remove this one from the kit.
— Assad Ahmad (@assadahmad) October 23, 2021
Flashback to when Rehman Malik was minister and we had telephone and internet shutdowns as a response to literally the slightest inconvenience. Would be cool. I wouldn’t have to submit this write up if we didn’t have the internet. Miss those days when this was a valid excuse. Then again, the government would collapse now if Whatsapp was down for the entire day.
Boring hobbies
Why do company’s ask for “hobbies” in online job applications ? Many govt organisations send long ass questionnaires for personality evaluation , the ppl thru recruit are average with their work , even the US visa application asked for hobbies …. Lol
— High (@talkingcurves) October 23, 2021
My hobbies are boring and I don’t want to tell you what I do in my own time. Why can’t companies rethink their hiring? What in the world even are productive hobbies?
{Editor’s note: Some sage advice, when you make a silly tweet there is no need to double down on it. You can retract it, apologise, and move on with your life. We feel it is necessary to remind you that Twitter isn’t actually a real place, so getting defensive about things you say there (particularly stupid things) is not doing you any favours.}
Justifying fees
Please don’t blame the youth. Blame educational institutes, parents, centuries old education system. Not to mention the damage done by school starting age of “3”. “Overdose of education kills creativity” Nassim Taleb. https://t.co/Jc3p9eKAlb
— Motasim Bajwa (@motasim) October 23, 2021
Universities need to work on soft skills. They need to justify their high fees.
Better wages needed
Pakistan operates a “Slave” economy where materials/goods are priced at world levels, but labor and wages are at a fraction of world levels. We don’t invest in our human capital to enhance productivity. How can we expect to progress?
@MiftahIsmai@KhurramHusain@NajamAli2020— saeed mirza (@noonipooni) October 23, 2021
Pakistani businesses are sweatshops. Wages need to be better and in line with international standards if prices are kept the same way.
