Frusty the MBA without Job

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Frusty the MBA without Job

This cartoon and story is based on the idea received from Pranjal and Pallav. The mail is given below.

Frusty's Gyan, Moral of the story: Just beacuse you have got admission into an Ivy league MBA institute, it doesn't mean life is going to be a bed of roses. MBA's are not recession proof. You are just another mortal human being as vunerable as anybody else.

The idea from Pranjal and Pallav:

"Hi, I got the following idea from my friends Pallav and Pranjal, who asked me to communicate it to you. They overheard one of their manager saying that they went for MBA campus placements and instead of hiring just 2 candidates (which was their requirements) they ended up hiring 25 candidates as good candidates were available really cheap becasue fo the downturn. They felt that now MBA graduates are being treated like commodities. Let me know if you liked the idea and if you can put is up as a cartoon on your website. Thanks and Regards, Ana"

The story in words for those who cannot see the picture:

Frusty is having nightmare about job placements in his Business School ( Notice for the companies who are visiting the B-School to recruit MBAs), "Hire 1 MBA graduate and get 2 Free". Promotional campaign for MBAs!!!

My Boss shares the secret of rising to the Top

I have now wasted some good part of my valuable life (well no one thinks so that my life is valuable, that includes me) in gathering some of the coveted degrees. I feel I deserve a better deal in terms of job content, well if there was any job to do. Having been eternally tired of cribbing about the job I felt if time to take matters into hand. I went to my boss and engaged him into a discussion about how wretched I feel in my present job and sick of not doing anything at all. He was a through gentleman and gave me a patient hearing. Then slowly whispered after making sure no one was paying attention to our conversation, " Hey why crib about not doing anything. This is a great organization. People in this organization have made career by not doing anything. You are one of the very few chosen ones (well I didn't feel so as there were many like me floating around in the campus). You have been chosen to follow the path of great leaders in this organization who has risen to the top by observing things around.