A while ago, at a gathering with IT friends in Tabriz, one attendee talked about employees “expiring” and said that after a year, or sometimes less or more, some employees start making excuses and stretch out tasks that used to take a day into weeks. He concluded that these employees had “expired” and it was time to replace them with fresh energy (read: fools).

After he answered my question about their normal salary, I felt so disturbed that I had to leave to avoid a panic attack. $200 for a senior programmer? That’s bad enough, but for someone just getting started on a computer, it’s insulting. Comparing working at Snapp, which is practically doable even without basic literacy, to a job that requires at least 16 years of education and roughly 10 years of experience, isn’t that absurd? And to make it worse, it was clear that a Snapp driver earns 2 to 3 times more than these poor employees, and the only “benefit” they could offer for this job was that you sit behind a computer.

I’m not here to preach or give advice. The fact that the country is in decline doesn’t give anyone the right to enslave others, then wonder why people’s energy and creativity get drained over the years, and finally complain that they no longer go the extra mile for you.