Mercenary Vs Employee

Being jobless is boring, taxing, drives one crazy (don’t ask how can a crazy person become crazy, tats beside the point.) but it also means that you have a lot of time to think about stuff that you wouldn’t think about otherwise (in my case,  at least I wouldn’t have spent so much time thinking about it.)

Okay, so now back to the topic being discussed: Mercenaries and employees. Do you think that there is a difference between them? Well most people me myself (at one point of time) included would say Yes they are different.

Mercenary seems to have a negative connotation to it.  Think of mercenary, freeze that image in your mind. Now think of employee, and freeze that image in your mind.

The Oxford dictionary gives the following meaning for Mercenary: As one primarily concerned with money. Know what’s the definition of employee? It’s given as: As one working for wages.

So, primarily there is no difference between the definitions of a mercenary and an employee.

Let’s explore employees. After all the global meltdown happened due to some employees; the Bhopal accident happened due to some employees; the BP oil spill happened due to some employees and the list is endless.

In comparison what an mercenaries do may result in direct loss of life, they may steal something valuable but it doesn’t have such a wide global impact as what an employee does.

And yet who gets the bad name? It’s the mercenaries.

Well, I am dedicating this article to all the mercenaries out there in the universe….

Note: The above article is written by me without any coercion on anyone’s part. Nor is it intended to hurt anybody’s feelings.