Mob mentality

My husband works with a call centre as AVP – Operations. He works nights. So on an average day he arrives at about 8:30 or so in the morning. This morning he walks in busy on the mobile.

The issue at hand was the fact that a cab dropping some employees on a certain route met with an accident. The driver may have slept at the wheel. The cab lost control, hit something and then nose-dived into a pit. The driver immediately clambered out and ran away. The cab had hit a water suction machine. This machine then went on to hit a worker (maybe) on his head. He died (I am not sure how they ascertained that) on the spot. There were 4 employees in the cab who seeing that the driver ran away, also managed to get off the cab and got into one of the company’s vehicles passing by and reached their homes albeit with a few injuries.

How sad! How terribly sad, that they all left than man dead and lying on the road like that. It deeply saddened me. I told my husband that what they did was very wrong and that they should not have deserted him like that. My heart goes out to that man. Maybe he had a family and maybe he was their sole breadwinner. Maybe…. So many possibilities!

But then what would have happened to all those employees who out of their goodwill decided to stay back. A mob would collect at the spot. Before they even realise what happened and how, they would rain blows on the suspected offenders. I have often seen that in our country, people need an excuse to release their frustrations. They do not care who. More often than not, they might not even know the victim, but they do not want to lose a good opportunity to thulp somebody when they have the chance. Mob mentality! The only people who have everything to lose, is of course, the victims family. A chance at immediate medical help, that might have helped him survive. Monetary benefits, which would come if the mob would allow it, to come a little sooner. Because then all the right people would be notified and the victim and his family would get all the help that they deserve. If only it were not for the mob….

So even people who really want to be around and make amends, might have to hold themselves back. When I heard my husband on the phone with his seniors and staff, I was really angry at their insensitivity. But this is life and that is just the way things are. The employees, who were involved, were genuinely sad that this happened. But they were helpless! The mob…….