The Caste System of the corporate world......

Many of you know how Casteism is born. If you don’t; let me tell you, it is a long process of evolved civilization where people, for ease of administration have divided themselves into different groups on varying parameters. That was the need of the hour and it was to be done that way. After all, man is an intelligent creature and he has to innovate something and you cannot advance scientifically unless you advance socially.

Years passed by, centuries passed by and just as the human activity has drilled a hole in the Ozone layer, eroded millions of acres of forests and increased the global temperatures, the natural and innate tendency of human activity has its effect on Caste System as well.

Now we have environmentalists doing their bit to make people realize the necessity of going green and on the same hand we have extensive industrialization puffing the lungs of earth with their daily dose of green house gases. In the same way on one side we have people saying casteism is wrong and we should get away with it and there are even more people who still believe and strongly so in Casteism. I am not sure we can get away with it or not, but we have already laid the foundation for an all new system of Castes. And I call it the Neo Casteism.

You, me, our managers, the entrepreneurs, politicians, police etc are all part of this. Yes with out even being conscious about it we have contribute to an all new casteism.

The main classes of this are:

The ruling class (old: kshatriyas/new: Politicians and the law enforcers)
The scholar class (old:Brahmins/new: Professors and lecturers )
The merchant class (old:vyshyas/new: business men, entrepreneurs )
The Workers class(old: shudras/new: frontline workers, software engineers, project leads, managers)

Now, doesn’t it seem practical, if you observe, that all those divisions are logical? But, now they make little sense and none at all, but we hang on, we still marry within our castes, vote for people with in our castes and keep on following the blind division that was created.

But, now why “ Casteism called the corporate world”? Because, the corporate world will be pretty instrumental in making the new caste system successful. How?

The caste I belong to in the new system is different from the caste I belong to in the old system. I am a shudra according to new caste system. Hmmm that is interesting, isn’t it? And if all goes well, my great grand sons or at least their grandsons will be eligible for the coveted reservation.

The present shudras, like the previous classification will be at the receiving end of the discrimination with in no time. If you see, the discrimination starts when you join the corporate world. You will join as trainee, get confirmed, become a software engineer and get stuck there ever in the web of multiple appraisal cycles, if you ever get to the next level, you will be stuck there as well and ad nauseum.

So my great grandsons will be shudras(hopefully not untouchables) whose sub class will be IT and whose sub sub class will software engineers. So, my grandson’s name will probably some SE Ranjit Kumar(SE= Software engineer) and if he wants to avail the reservations in one of the 100 IIMs (the possible number in 2500) he hjas to take my salary slip proof to the local MRO so that he recognizes him as an authentic backward class. The other authentic backward classes will be PAs, TLs, BA, Consultants, design engineers. However, all the BPO employees have higher % of reservations as they will be added under SC/ST category.
And hence, the new caste system is created!
-AKP