The glass is definitely half empty this week in Pakistan’s business and economics Twitterverse

The glass is definitely half empty

this week in Pakistan’s business and economics twitterverse

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

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.

Pay me more please

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.

The secret ID card collection

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 Take a chill pill

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. 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?

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. 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.