Sinking ship dilemma....

Lehman Brothers has filed for bankruptcy…
Of course for past one week no one was working in real sense… only half hearted…
Drowned share prices had already drowned everyone’s hopes...
Somehow in all this I have a sense of déjà vu…

Of course this is first time I am facing a bankruptcy situation….
But underlying feelings they are all the same…
Under stress I somehow tend to get calm and composed… but excited at the same time….
Everyone around seem to be frantic but not me…
This has happened quite a few times before….
It has happened when one of my subordinates was on verge of dying in the Bombay High fields….

It happened when once I was in office in L&T and it was shut down due to rumor of Balasaheb Thakrey’s arrest… while everyone left in frenzy fearing riots…
I stayed back in office till late evening and went home after it all settled down.
Same thing had happened when once it rained so much that even western lines failed…. Again everyone worried...panicking… but not me…
Don’t know why this happens…
I happened a few times while in Infosys also…

But this time it is a little different….. I would like to call it my sinking ship dilemma….
Shall I jump off the ship… or wait till the captain calls for Abandon ship and then leave using the safety raft?
If I jump off… then I will have to struggle in the sea all alone…. Clutching to whatever I can for safety…
But I will be independent….
But If I stay back… I may get some cushion… may be some compensation….
Not sure what way to go…
Let’s see….

I am not willing to stay back till people in US come to office and give us some news….
UK teams are already in packing off mode…
May be tomorrow will bring out more news….