Thursday, April 30, 2009

HAIL THE HRs - 2

Okay. I didn't intend to write a sequel to the previous post,but thanks to my clueless HR,I couldn't resist... Here is another bizarre moral boosting event planned by the HRs today...

  We are all asked to assemble at the meeting point for "b'day bash" celebrations.After fifteen minutes of fun filled activities (decode: silly games you would be ashamed to describe to your blog readers), Our HR gladly announced that she will be giving presents to the b'day boys and gals. Here are the exact words, and i swear i am not making this up!!

  "Okay,now! Whoever all had their b'days celebrated in feb,march or april,please come to me and collect their gifts!"

The scene looked remarkably similar to the one i used to witness at the ration shop back in my 
childhood. Apparantly,this is supposed to make us feel "special" 


  In case u are wondering, all the gifts are same: a 5 inch long doll which will fit in ur fist.I have to agree,it beats the coffee mug with company logo on it!


 Then came the next announcement.

 "Now we will cut the cake.It will be available in the pantry. Please come there and take it!".


 My imagination failed to fathom what was written on the cake. may be something like " happy b'day to my clueless resources"!!!

 My MBA course stars in few months, but i feel i am already learning a lot here. How  not to be a stupid HR!!!

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

A Male Chauvinistic Pig Ponders....

Ever since i've decided to get out of this shit hole (popularly known as "job") and go after MBA,i am spending my time in office a bit relaxedly. I may not be the Most deligent worker before,but now, i can feel that my work standards have reduced drastically. 
Here is a list of things i've been doing in office...

1. Reading Garfield strips.

2. Taking "Breaks" in between reading those and having Tea in canteen.

3. Bitching about our boss with other colleagues.

4. Doodling absurd shapes on notebook and calling it "Art"

5. Making awkward talk with female colleagues and fancying myself as a flirt.

6. Thinking about lot of useless stuff.


   Unless u are autistic,the first five are pretty much self explanatory.It is the sixth one that needs some elobaration. and i will do the same...


   I've this weird habit of thinking about stuff that nobody usually bothers about. U can refer to my previous posts for some examples.From past few days, i am observing something interesting happening at my office; there is a non zero chance that it is my hallucination,but you are here reading this crap means u are pretty much wasting ur time anyway,so u've nothing to lose,so Read on....

 Everyday at 13:00 the bus for afternoon shift people comes to my stop.Out of 30 seats in the bus i usually find 33% women. That is 10.The shift ends at 22:30, and in the return bus,as if by potter's magic,there are only 1 or 2 women.Where have all the other women gone? Working overtime in the office?? 

I wish....


 According to Our company's security policy,Female associates are advised to leave the office by 
20:30,so most of them leave by that time.But what they conveniently forget is that they are also supposed to be in the office by 11:30.Yet daily, i see women coming to office by 13:00 bus, i know most of them will be leaving by 20:30,and i can't help but wonder about the implications...


  Ofcourse, i am not saying that every woman bunks her office every day,She might come early 3 days a week,but everyday the ratio is same. 10 women in afternoon bus;1 or 2 in night bus,so on average daily atleast 8 women per bus are hosing our company by working for only 6 hours!


  Our office has 6000 employees,assuming 33% of them are woman,they account to 2000. 
And by conservative estimates,let us assume that half of them are coming by shifts-1000
And half of them are coming in afternoon shifts on any given day - 500

  So effectively,our company is losing 1000 man-hours or should i say,woman-hours per day! That becomes 20000 woman-hours per month.

  that means our efficiency is getting reduced by 2% just because of these women weasles in the office... 

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This is mostly armchair reasoning. It involves pulling numbers out of air and assuming they are true.But since i don't intend to do any real work in the office,i reckon it is best way for me to pass time.( Hold on here for a moment and marvel at my vast vocabulary. On the other hand, if u think that "reckon" is too simple a word,let me know so that i can use more complex words in my next post and be smug about it...)

  Also, this post is intentionally intended to be male chauvinistic. U can argue that men are no better, they take too many breaks, are not sincere,put sick leave whenver there is cricket on Tv,blah blah blah.....but i am too arrogant to pay heed to those views!!
   


Saturday, April 11, 2009

Its a NERD'S Life!

I tell u,Its very tough living a nerd's life. U face weird problems and find ur self at crazy crossroads and you have to take a decision,the other day the samething happened to me....


   The evening was pleasant.So i've decided to take a stroll along the beach.I bought capuccino on the way,and i've the 900 page "THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO GALAXY"(or MONSTER BOOK as i call it).

This book has given me a new identity.Though i am living in my current locality from 15 months,No body doesn't even know that i exist. Its as if i am invisible or something. After some field tests, i've observed that ever since i am carrying this book,i am becoming popular in the neighborhood as "That freak with that monstrous book".This is kool.Now i am looking for even bigger and monstrous book...Um,i strayed away from the topic,didn't i??

  Anyway,as i am walking with my hands full,my nose started itching.(U might think this is not a big issue on cosmic scale,but u are talking to a nerd here).In no time, the itch was unbearable.I panicked!! what to do?? What to do?? I took deep breaths and calmly evaluated the options i have....


1.Throw the capuccino away... blissfully scratch the nose - rejected as i love capuccino too much

2.Do not scratch the nose.... it is kind of a temptation. Prove to urself ur self control - rejected, as i don't believe in this self - help bullshit.

3.Ask the hot girl coming ur way to hold the capuccino for u,and go wild! - rejected,what if she drank ur coffee??

4.Ask the hot girl coming ur way to hold the monster book for u,and go nuts!- (hmm,may be)

5.Ask the hot girl coming ur way to scratch ur nose while u hold ur things safely - NERD ALERT! NERD ALERT!!! 

6.Using my engineering skills...Bring the hand close to ur nose,carefully maneuver the finger and do the thing. it is theoritically possible.



    After carefull consideration,i've decided to go for option six. Its worth a try. So i raised my hand with the coffe cup, brought it close to my nose,extended the thumb from the cup and SCRATCH!Instinct took over,i bent my hand too much and spilled coffee all over my shirt.

And my first reaction was " Damn it! i've to buy another capuccino...."

Then i realised that it would have been so much better if i used my hand with the monster book in it.
But hey... Its a nerd's life!!!

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Hail the HRs...

I always envied HRs.All they do to earn  their living is introduce bizarre and evil policies that are a huge inconvenience to employees.But the part that irritates me more is the events they organise. Apparantly,those events are supposed to increase our morale and instill a feeling of camraderie among our selves.But the general reaction from the working community is something like,"Oh crap! Not another one!"

here are the gems of ideas originated in the semian brains of our HRs...

"Save earth! show that u care for environment!! come to office dressed up in green tomorrow!!"

   Cool! I didn't know that by dressing up in green i can save earth....

"Flashy friday! Take out that flashy costume of yours that u always feared to wear.come dressed in gawdy colors tomorrow.Have fun!
Disclaimer: Flashy doesn't mean you can violate dress code of company. Please choose your dress that it has to look formal"

  wow! Flashy and formal. Now thats an easy combination!!


But the one that takes the cake is the "best boss" competition held few months ago.
We were supposed to write our boss's name on a paper and drop in ballot box. I am perplexed by the logic of this voting and approached my 2nd boss.


"I don't understand one thing. I've worked under only one boss. I don't know anything about others. So how can i nominate mine as best boss coz i don't have any yardstick to compare him to others????????"

 this logic seemed reasonable enough for me,but apparantly it was ridiculous for her.

"What??  YOu don't want ur boss to win?"

Now,thats a tough one.Think fast,nerdo, or else ur appraisal is doomed!!!

"Of course i want to. But i sensed some flaw in this logic. He he... anyway, is participating in the poll mandatory?"

"Hell... no! We won't force u to vote.If u think ur boss is not good enough,then don't,thats all."she said eyeing me intensely,"So... are u participating?"

"In a second" i scrambled for a paper and sold my vote.I casted another illegal vote just incase.After all, What is ur opinion before a doomed appraisal??


  My boss did win the competition. Thats a huge surprise,considering that my boss has 80 people under him and all the other competitors combined have around 50.

  Everybody in my project sent an email to him congratulating him on his "achievment" which he humbly accepted.

That was the moment i decided to become a HR myself.Evidently even a clueless jerk can suvive there....