Job losses; a response to reality

There comes a moment in life when responding to reality is not an option, thereby qualifying some evils as necessary. In this regard reality becomes as such; like the Greek 'god', Kronos, the revolution can devour its own in pursuit of perceived good. 

Somehow, business as usual had to come to a screeching halt paving way for the uprooting of corruption and substantial economic revival. Let us be honest, everyone wants the best out of Zimbabwe through the restoration of sanity in the economy.
We underestimated the level of corruption that has eroded corporate governance as we overlooked the subsequent consequences of the vice. Either ways the nation was not prepared to stomach the shakeup that would come with the first steps towards mending of the economy. Corruption had unimaginably encroached deep under the skin, affecting every sector of life.
Finance Minister, Patrick Chinamasa's call and motto in his midterm fiscal policy was "production and more production". The call was directed to industries, which apparently cannot operate with bloated staff owing to a plethora of challenges which many would deliberately play down due to ignorance.
Honestly, no employer would offload his useful human resource for the sake of joining the bandwagon of firing employees. Most of these companies had been overloaded with human resources they did not need, perhaps because of low productivity in their line of business or mere insubordination by the employees. 
To fire such employees previously meant a lot of legal interventions in the courts; hence employers resorted to keeping workers around without any pay. This exposed the companies to a lot of risks such as thievery and sabotages of all proportions as the employees had to survive somehow. Come to think of it, why would one go to work for over two years without pay? Perhaps stubborn faith kept them going but the real answer lies with those who have been in the situation.
The Zuva Petroleum employees' saga opened the flood gates which saw companies literary offloading the lot they could not either pay or tolerate due to business viability or work related misconduct.
The good and bad guys were unceremoniously shown the exit door. For the good guys life has never been fair and surely you cannot pull a good man down. Wish and hope life gives them a prettier smile next time around.  As for those maniacs among the affected employees, they definitely deserved a bye unpunctuated with a good because they somehow contributed to the lowered production which brought us this mess after all.
Government should not be left out in this cleanup campaign given the redundant workforce which has become a liability to its efficient operations. Most government employees come to work, drink coffee, abuse telephones and leave for other 'extra curricular' activities soon after lunch. When there is no production, literary translating to no economic activity, common sense tells one to scale down until momentum is re-gathered.
Scaling down, in this instance, entails considering other posts as redundant, hence a spade has to be called a spade. One drives his boss to work and wait until clock out time marking the end of his working day. 
There are a lot of luxuries that can be phased off so that we look into the future with practical devotion. My submission would not be adequate if l finish without applauding President Mugabe for not evoking his Presidential powers to cushion the rot that is fuelling suffering in Zimbabwe. Dead wood should be shaken and pruned for effective corporate governance.
Disposing the employees without paying them any dime is inhuman altogether, hence, necessitating the amendment of the labour laws. The amendments should ensure that one goes home with due rewards but should never defend the keeping of unproductive workforce.
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