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Mid year career discussion time!
It’s time for MYCD where I work. Details of what happens are here .
I decided to extend MYCD and carry out this critical exercise for all my employees as well. Since none of them are web savvy, I take the liberty to post the feedback online .
Employee 1- My maid
I rated my maid as achieved [...]
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Today’s office talk
10 AM IBN is reporting- “Satyam CEO fraud…”
1 PM meeting: ” Heard the news ? Satyam fraud wowie..”
1:30 PM lunch: “But how did he do it ” ” arrest the auditors” “job market will be flooded”
2:30 PM water cooler: ” Abe toone 4 bug fix kiye hai 400 nahi..satyam ki tarah behave mat kar”
3:00 PM [...]
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Uncle will you play with us ?
Back when I was in school, evenings were usually dedicated to badminton. Since all schools ended at the same time as mine, it was a race to get to the court before everyone else. A few minutes difference could mean a wait of an hour.
Inspite of all the running, there usually were about 30 kids [...]
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Opinion poll
Whats the most immediate reaction on reading the below? I am conducting a small survey.The I in the story can be assumed to be me.
“The other night I was walking along the beach, hand in hand with my girlfriends. Suddenly this huge f**ing space saucer came along and zapped me up into its belly. There [...]
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Bye bye Live Mail
There was this hype around the whole Live Mail launch recently with a flurry of mails hitting my inbox.
I went and got a live id since I got one I liked. Tarun happened to crib to me about Live mail client around the same time so I went and installed it to see what [...]
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What you do or don’t do ends up making news.
For example ? This
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Change Management
My dad has an old LG Reliance phone. The one that Reliance launched it’s services with. It’s old and has a severely limiting feature set. For example- No camera, no web browser ,no color screen and so on. The batteries been changed a couple of times and still dies on occassion, but he’s gotten used [...]
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On customer service
These days we are getting feedback on the Beta/Release candidate builds of XP SP3 we shipped to some customers.
While looking through the feedback and formulating the questions to ask the customer , I constantly try to put myself in their shoes. Let me explain why-
If for example I call up my broadband provider with a [...]
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Selvador Dali
I was gifted a painting (reproduction obviously) by Selvador Dali. Its called “The persistence of time”.
It’s pretty depressing actually, scary even (made me think about life and such things).
I wonder what the gifter had in mind when gifting.
More about the painting is here
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PJ’s
Sreejith cracks dumb jokes anyways
Try these
From Stardust-
Interviewer: What’s your take on one-night stands?
Guy: It depends on where you stand.
Created with friends-
N- I was driving along on this virgin road
J – The road was laid a long time ago you sucker
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- jayaramk: in prague now, everyones nice and helpful. The bus office guy even gave us a tourist map to prague! and the hostels on top of a little hilljayaramk: in prague now, everyones nice and helpful. The bus office guy even gave us a tourist map to prague! and the hostels on top of a little hill
- jayaramk: and did everything that one should do in budapst- visit monument-done-visit police station-done ( friend lost documents):).On to prague nowjayaramk: and did everything that one should do in budapst- visit monument-done-visit police station-done ( friend lost documents):).On to prague now
- jayaramk: Berlin was nice, paris is amazing..on to Budapest now!jayaramk: Berlin was nice, paris is amazing..on to Budapest now!
- jayaramk: @Rakesh pilot died in a car accident ironicallyjayaramk: @Rakesh pilot died in a car accident ironically
- jayaramk: dad introduces me to ex boss 3 star admiral as "Son, works in M$" Start to feel good when 3 star says " My computer has this problem.." fml!jayaramk: dad introduces me to ex boss 3 star admiral as "Son, works in M$" Start to feel good when 3 star says " My computer has this problem.." fml!
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- jayaramk: My junior Ranjitha is running a marathon in support of Leukemia patients. http://bit.ly/1WGqg3. Go ahead and contribute please.
