The Mottai Boss (a.k.a kaatss)

LESSON LEARNT

This piece of news is history already. It started all of a sudden with a whole lot of clickety clack sounds from the windows. I was staring at the monitor with some mundane work. Everyone rushed to the balcony to have a view and creating a foot traffic jam in the process. I was determined to catch one piece of ice and looking for a different strategy to execute it. Thats when I learnt the lesson.

DON'T STICK YOUR HAND OUT OF THE WINDOW DURING A FREAKIN HAILSTORM.

Now, nursing my knuckle to health with a pack of ice. The strategy became a freaking tragedy.
(7) Voice your views (Need not register, use anonymous option and leave your name please!)

KISS ME????

Last two months were hectic and was accompanied with big shakeup, which resulted in my absence from blog world. Now, I will be able to up the ante on my blogging frequency from "zilch".

Today, I was driving towards Mylapore on Dr.Radhakrishnan Road and stopped behind a truck at Hotel Chola Sheraton signal. The truck's bumper sticker caught my attention, which said

NO KISSING IN PUBLIC
LEAVE 10 FT OF SPACE

A nice point to ponder for all those who are waking up every day to tame the monster called "chennai traffic".
(8) Voice your views (Need not register, use anonymous option and leave your name please!)

CONTEMPTUOUS CREATURE

Couple of friends and I were standing in front of a bakery and munching some goodies. We were standing next to the door and chatting, when a street dog walks up the bakery and start wagging its tail. We watch the scene for a minute and the clever dog realizes that a bunch of people are looking at it and shows a sorry face. My friend who is a sucker for animals was eating a cream bun(**), now wants to give a piece to the dog. He starts bugging us and we finally give into his demands.

I pick a piece of the bun, a big piece rather and place it on a paper. I started walking outside with the cream bun. The dog realizes that it is getting some goodies and follows me a few steps back. I place the paper with cream bun on the pavement and turn back. All of us were outside looking at the dogs next course of action. This dog boldly marches to the treat and starts smelling all around 360 degrees. It takes the head away for a second and starts smelling again. Suddenly it looks at us and turns back and starts walking towards the bakery again. My friend who lost close to half of his cream bun looks at his stuff lying on the ground and yells at the dog "You are one f****ng contemptuous creature" and starts to chase the dog.....

(**) Cream Bun: A yummy pastry famous in Madras where an ordinary looking and tasting bun is transformed to a cake like thinggy. Preparation methodology is very simple. All you have to do is to put a layer of sweet chocolate cream in the middle and frosting cream on the top of a bun. Voila! you have a cream bun now.
(2) Voice your views (Need not register, use anonymous option and leave your name please!)

NEW JOINEE

Is the term "Joinee" used in day to day vocabulary in place of employee? I have never heard of it until I came to this company. Anyway, a new guy came up to my office at 10 am couple of days before and introduces himself as the new joinee. We could see him a bit nervous as it was his first day. Security guy then makes him wait for half an hour for some HR formalities. Time passes by and he keeps a tab on things goin on in the floor.

The HR girl casually strolls by at 10:30 and gives him a bunch of forms to fill out. He takes about half an hour to finish the formalities and the HR girl takes him over to the concerned team and introduces him to team leader. The team leader talks to him for a few minutes and assigns him to be trained in the current process. By the time he sits next to one of the team members for knowledge transfer, people start walking towards cafeteria for lunch. Joinee keeps looking at them whereas the trainer is busy searching for some powerpoint presentation. Team leader notices it and asks the joinee to have lunch and continue with training.

Joinee takes a look around the office and walks out with a pretext of eating in a nearby restaurant. From that point onwards, not a word was heard from him and frantic attempts to reach him till today has proved futile.

PS: As narrated by the colleague who was training the new joinee.
(3) Voice your views (Need not register, use anonymous option and leave your name please!)

MURPHY'S LAWS @ WORK

After a long and non stop 35 days at work, I finally decided to take two full days off and just chill at home. Since I was eligible for two days of paid holiday this month, I decided to take off on 30th (Fri) and 31st (Sat). The strategy was to make use of the following sunday and make it a long weekend. Got the approval from team lead and relegated tasks to colleagues on 28th (Wed), then submitted the leave form to HR guys. I called a couple of old timers for catching up and planned a trip to meet a bunch of old office colleagues. Everything was planned to perfection when the announcement from our great Tamil Nadu goverment came regarding state wide bandh. My company declared a holiday anyway and all my plans were flushed down the toilet.

What a wonderful man is Murphy.....does'nt everybody love this guy and his laws.
(5) Voice your views (Need not register, use anonymous option and leave your name please!)