The nine-to-five grind too much even for the Taliban?

 After decades of fighting them, it appears that the West had the answer to defeating the Taliban in Afghanistan right in front of their eyes -- leave the country and let them have a go at running it.  

Leaving the wilderness, where death loomed around every corner (or so they would have us believe), and adopting the daily routine that the rest of us live with would seem a no-brainer.

But a young Taliban fighter found that to be untrue after the harsh realities of adulthood hit him really hard.

"In our ministry, there's little work for me to do. Therefore, I spend most of my time on Twitter. We're connected to speedy Wi-fi. Many including me, are addicted to the internet, especially Twitter," said the young man for real (you can look it up).

The man also lamented his city's traffic and said he found it difficult to spend such long hours stuck in one place.

"What I dislike about Kabul is its traffic and what I fear is its thieves. I keep my pistol on my person all the time after two of our comrades were robbed," he said, adding that there was a time when they were the ones who robbed people, but now that they are leaders of the country, they are finding it hard to just go around robbing people.

Since everything is their property, it would just mean stealing from themselves.

It seems that a life in the rugged plains and staying hidden from security forces did not arm the militant group with any real-life skills such as maintaining a 9-5 job.

"These days, you have to go to the office before 8:00am and stay till 4:00pm. If you don't go, you're considered absent, and [the wage for] that day is cut from your salary," said another disgruntled, disillusioned young Taliban man.

The man is also full of existential dread and is wondering how he will ever get through this job and what the organisation would do now that their goal of ruling the nation has already been achieved.

Keep ruling? Keep at the 9-5 grind?

Ban women from universities? Oh…

 "The Taliban used to be free of restrictions but now we sit in one place, behind a desk and a computer 24 hours a day, seven days a week," he added.

*All the quotes are taken from a real-life account and if you do not believe us, please look it up. This story is not a dig at the 9-5 work culture but an account of how everyone is a bumbling fool and no one really knows how to manage modern life's pressures and challenges, not least the Taliban.