I have rarely traveled long distances for commuting to my work. I always hated traveling without any purpose. Somehow managed to stay near the place of work (please don’t ask what useful work I did in the ‘saved’ time).
Now for the past 15 days, I am traveling for around 40 kms each direction, consuming some 3 ½ hrs in the process. It has definitely been a different experience. People get into the vehicle early in the morning around 7 and their faces already resemble convicts about to go to the gallows. So tired and uninteresting. The next second, they fall asleep as if they are deprived of sleep for days. All the jerks and trembles along the road do not seem to bother them at all. After around an hour, a sudden jerk near the main gate wakes them up and they get down from the vehicle with their faces swollen and tired. All these at 8.15 in the morning. And the story doesn’t end here. Similar experience can be had in the evening time too when people go back.
I feel it is preposterous to travel like this everyday. It inflicts a huge cost on one’s private life. He is damn tired at the end of the day and feels as if he spends a large part of time in office, which may not always be the case.
Is it going to be the order of the day?? Many more IT and manufacturing companies are coming up in locations like this which involve traveling for longer distances everyday. People just do not have any option but to travel like this. Many of these locations are in the far-flung suburbs of the city and people cannot always afford to stay near their workplace. Entertainment, proper schooling for children and other facilities are invariably not available in these places. This leaves them with lesser options. They try to console themselves by the fact that even if their office was in the city, it would have been an equally horrendous traveling experience.
All these boil down to providing adequate infrastructure. Governments have been very proactive in giving red carpet welcome for corporate investments. Unless they work overtime to improve infrastructure in these areas, it is going to be difficult for all – the employees and employers alike. Not only this, the time, health and money loss as well as pollution created by such long distance traveling are not going to help the society in any way. We are all set to become robots.
Now for the past 15 days, I am traveling for around 40 kms each direction, consuming some 3 ½ hrs in the process. It has definitely been a different experience. People get into the vehicle early in the morning around 7 and their faces already resemble convicts about to go to the gallows. So tired and uninteresting. The next second, they fall asleep as if they are deprived of sleep for days. All the jerks and trembles along the road do not seem to bother them at all. After around an hour, a sudden jerk near the main gate wakes them up and they get down from the vehicle with their faces swollen and tired. All these at 8.15 in the morning. And the story doesn’t end here. Similar experience can be had in the evening time too when people go back.
I feel it is preposterous to travel like this everyday. It inflicts a huge cost on one’s private life. He is damn tired at the end of the day and feels as if he spends a large part of time in office, which may not always be the case.
Is it going to be the order of the day?? Many more IT and manufacturing companies are coming up in locations like this which involve traveling for longer distances everyday. People just do not have any option but to travel like this. Many of these locations are in the far-flung suburbs of the city and people cannot always afford to stay near their workplace. Entertainment, proper schooling for children and other facilities are invariably not available in these places. This leaves them with lesser options. They try to console themselves by the fact that even if their office was in the city, it would have been an equally horrendous traveling experience.
All these boil down to providing adequate infrastructure. Governments have been very proactive in giving red carpet welcome for corporate investments. Unless they work overtime to improve infrastructure in these areas, it is going to be difficult for all – the employees and employers alike. Not only this, the time, health and money loss as well as pollution created by such long distance traveling are not going to help the society in any way. We are all set to become robots.
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