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133 days ago
All of us have been taught to be nice to others, try and extend help to others and be accomodative as and when possible. They taught us that being nice to others gets you others feel good about you. No longer, I would say. Today, if you are nice, the first thing people do is to take advantage and make a fool out of you. Not just in everyday life, but work place, family, everywhere. Let us define, what is being nice. First of all, trying to be as accomodative as possible. Help others, go the extra mile so that others are happy. Never knowingly hurt others heart with words/actions. Most important of all, feel good and talk good. Today, if you are nice to others, you become the loser. Worst thing, your close aides make fun of you, term you as incapable and teach that you have to be smart. I know there is just a fine line between smartness and cunningness. Smartness to you may mean cunningness to the other and vice versa. Take work place. Those who keep ...
147 days ago
In this post, I am not talking about the priveleged Chair Car, II A/c, I A/c & Unreserved compartments. These are spared from the hassles I am talking below (Unreserved is next to hell but that is a choice you make and you only have to blame yourself for doing that) Take a typical case of Train journey. Most of us travel by train and know that if you take up a Sleeper Class or 3rd a/c you more or less have the same compartment model - 3 tiers opposite to each other and 2 in the side. Now, there is this additiona middlel tier introduced in the side berths as well last year, thanks to our ex Hon. Railway Minister who thought just like how they can accomodate as many buffaloes in a court yard, they can accomodate people as well. Everytime it is a thrilling experience before you get to know your actual seat number. Why is this? Scenario 1: You get a confirmed seat and say the number is 18. Typically this means that you need to find where is 18 and sit over there. ...
153 days ago
Its good to appreciate others. It always brings in happiness and the momentary adrenalin pump for the person whom you are praising. While these days praising other person is done as an orchestrated activity (you praise me => I praise you) or done to inherently show that "He/She did help..but you know what, I am the person behind the scenes". In corporate world, it is even more tougher (Refer to the story where two IT professionals go through a forest. When they see a Tiger, one of them quickly pulls out the sports shoe form his bag. The other person asks, "Do you think wearing this shoe is going to make you run faster than the Tiger?" and the other person replies "I dont need to run faster than the Tiger. I just have to run faster than you"). But, today, I received an endorsement from one of my ex-colleagues (http://www.janakiramm.net/) in Linked In and needless to say it was a selfless one without any hidden agenda. It was very ...214 days ago
For the benefit of non-it folks, I want to explain first. Friday evenings are party (rather were) times in most of the Software companies. Everybody gets casual on Friday evenings considering the next 2 days of relief. (Now I dont want to tell the actual fate in many companies that force employes to work on Saturdays and in certain cases Sundays as well). But in a realistic software company model, fridays are parties. People try and leave early, some people try and work from home to avoid the hassle of driving forth and back. Others try taking off and do a myriad of things to extend the bit of the day to the weekend mode. Also, most of the team dinners (team building activities) happen on Friday evenings since its a time to chill out given that most of these end up being drinking party and the folks dont have to come to work the next day, being Saturday. However, in my 10 years of career, I have always found that some how or other, I screw up on Friday ...
275 days ago
Its hard to believe six years have gone by since I met this wonderful young woman whom I share my life with. One fine day, I walk into a brand new work place and as I wait for my peer mentor who would be briefing about my roles and responsibilities, I never knew that the peer mentor would be a life partner too. There are a lot of things that gets hidden when you see this person who comes across as a soft spoken, quiet persona. Secondly, the amount of detail that goes into everything she does surprises me. Everything has to be perfect for her and that is one source of our arguments on a day to day basis. I am a poor guy in romance, I never possess the art of making others admire out of what I talk and most of the time end up as a hopeless guy with a sense of humour. For a person who never bothered for perfection, who never took life seriously and who thought a computer and internet could solve everything out in the world, she came as a clean sweep showing the real ...
