Inspiring Thoughts on Recession

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A coworker of mine told me about a blog written by a very high level manager in search of suggestions about cost cutting; he wanted to know what employees are willing to do for the company. I collected few suggestions from the countless remarks that blog received and decided to share them with you, read them, they are beyond doubt inspirational :-)

Comment 1

This person suggests,

"Everytime I have to approve cab expenses raised by resources, I cannot help but chuckle (sometimes loudly) wondering why services provided by BMTC cannot be utilized.

Most of the travel scheduled happens during weekends. Why cannot MIPRO tie up with BMTC to pick up its employees at bus stops (communicated earlier to employees), instead of allowing individual cab rides?".

After reading this I felt how brainless every governing body is in every corporation that they could not think of such a luminous thought.

Comment 2

This comment says

"I would  recommend moving away from ceramic coffee cups to re-cycled paper cups for coffee and tea. An enormous amount of water and associated costs could be saved in this process."

Hmmmmm this boy has some ideas.

Comment 3

This suggestion says

"I think restricting the use of desk phones to make calls only to mipro numbers would be very helpful. Since, everyone have their personal phones with them & also, we have phone booths at each location, to make other calls."

Salute to the people of this country, India need people like you. You are my Youth ICON.

Comment 4

 Ha ha ha this one is awesome, it says, 

"Suggest revisiting the usage of support staff such as people to manage photocopy machines, receiptionists (in different towers) etc. Shouldnt we be able to take photocopies ourselves? For any major copying needs we should use a central system. Maybe their services could be used to provide other services (such as a concierge system)." Now I will be a photocopier BOY ..... he he he

Comment 5

This person is my Ideal from Today, he says,

"All the above comments seems to be good. Have tried summarizing all the above said points along with some of mine.

1) Major cost cutting can be done when an employee goes for OOD/onsite, he/she should stay in a cheaper hotels(wat i mean is NOT in 5 star n 3 star some lower price hotels). This is one major expense bared by the company i guess.

2) And also if the destination place is in india, one should make use of train facilty rather than going by flight.

3) As some people have suggested solar energy can be utilized for power saving, rain water harvesting(have been done in some offices already).

4) Avoiding very frequent/unnessary team outings and celebrations and claming it. Better celebrate and do outings with our own cost and NOT through company’s cost."

Please dont say more I will start crying.

Comment 6

And here is the most excellent one "This is an improvisation of a previous suggestion. There could be a willful and variable decrement of every employee’s CTC wherein the employee can declare a percentage of his CTC that could be deducted. The minimum deduction could be 0.75 or 1 percent and the maximum is left to the wish of the employee.

Another suggestion is that printer cartridges could be refilled instead of buying original ones. MIPRO can use its hardware expertise to do so. The money spent on manpower is worth the price of new cartridges.

Another one is austerity in spending could be rewarded.The employees who spend less on LTA or spectacles should be given some sort of incentive (monetary or as some kind of bonus points that add up to his/her record in MIPRO)." I am Flattered. These guys should be Indian resource management division. Each Indian will die due to food shortage in front of the food.

--> Well in middle of all these bizzare views there was one which I liked "If you Scrutinize the root cause of resources staying back (24X7 exceptions), it boils down to a few -

1. Lack of efficient planning from their end

2. A Lethargic attitude.

3. Working late indirectly means getting into manager’s good books!I honestly feel if you work EFFICIENTLY for 6 hours in a day, you would always leave the office by 6!

** Managers/supervisors SHOULD discourage people working late

** Resources should REALISE that working late is like self-acknowledging their “INefficiency”.

**This could save operational costs, and a penny saved is a penny earned  Note: There are exceptional scenarios and exceptions cannot be large in number!"

So what do you feel about these people, what implication/recommendation do you have for them??

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Could you respond to this ??

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There are few things which according to me are BAD HABITS and they have annoyed me for a long time and they still do but when I gave it a strong thought then it strike me that “How can all these things be incorrect when countless people do it”. Then I thought, why not I ask the reasons for these things from you if you do it.

Please reply your justification in comments wherever it relevant to you,

1. TENDENCY - Honking at Traffic Signals.
QUESTION - Why Do people start blowing the vehicle horn AS SOON AS traffic signal turns GREEN??
MY ANALYSIS – They are SO retarded that they do not even have a common sense to wait at least for 10 seconds for the traffic to clear up in front of them. Person in front of them is not a superman who’ll start flying.
YOUR OUTLOOK – What do you think ?? Let me know in the comments.

2. TENDENCY– Food Wastage.
QUESTION – Why do people waste food ??
MY ANALYSIS– Why can’t they take the quantity they can consume, why few think about money, “Since I have paid for complete meal so I will take as much as I want to and would let it squander even if I cannot eat”. Exemption to this I must have to include after understanding the comments that those people are really not guilty who take the food because it looked attractive but later tasted dreadful.
YOUR OUTLOOK – What do you feel ?? Let me know in the comments.

3. TENDENCY– Bad eating behavior @ workplace
QUESTION - Why do some of the people leave bones on the TABLE after finishing their Non-vegetarian lunch ??
MY ANALYSIS– Have they learned their table manners from abominable snowman ???
YOUR OUTLOOK– What do you think ?? Let me know in the comments.

4. TENDENCY– Office Wear
QUESTION– I know that this depends on office to office and on one’s comfort BUT why should someone put on chappal (Slippers) to the workplace ??? This is not valid to females but to females there are few additional things which they must take as suggestions from the comments to this blog.
MY ANALYSIS– It’s highly un-ethical.
YOUR OUTLOOK– What do you believe ?? Let me know in the comments.

Please do let me identify what do you feel about any of these which will allow me to realize and transform my belief regarding few things.

Waiting for your comments :-)

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We the people

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Yesterday I saw in the news that the accused arrested in Malegaon case are all granted bail. I started thinking that if it goes like this then the day is not far when all of us will die like any other beggar or pig. Forgive my language, my words are harsh and impolite but that’s reality.

Let me tell you what does US stands for?? It represents,

# Who does not have any Political background
# Who does not have any police correlation
# Who does not have nerve to fight against immoral
# Who does not have Strength to fight against immoral

“US” are the people who just want to be in this world peacefully.

Today no one wants to accept the reality, everyone is living in their own wonderland, people have time to gossip and condemn but they do not have time to make things any healthier. I know that many of you wont agree with me and many of you will say “There he goes again, doesn’t he have ANY work in the office”, I do have work in office but my obsession of writing and a blaze inside to do something does let me stop.

INDIA is filled with mainly 4 categories of people,

1. People who are not concerned about ANY thing in this planet, they don’t read newspaper, they don’t track any kind of information database, they are not worried who is Kasab, they don’t have any idea who is Pratibha Patil and these are the people for whom Indian president is either Manmohan Singh or Sonia Gandhi.

These people don’t have any Idea where world is going, they are not worried who is dead who is alive they just know that they have all the money in the world to buy anything. These are the people who don’t know what happened in Mumbai 26/11 (Believe me I know such people, I m not at all exaggerating), these are the people who say “This politician is good because he is from my constituency”!!! These People sleep all their life and cry on INDIA’S fate when they find roads are filthy, there is a traffic jam or when there is no electricity. They abuse to everyone but will never make a tiny effort to take accountability and attempt to make it alright.

2. This category of people are my favourite, they know each and everything what’s happening in this country BUT they don’t have endurance or guts to do anything, the best part is they don’t want to do anything. They just gossip about everything and each such topic ends with the note “India has no future”.

Country is in agony largely because of these people. They don’t want to stop on RED light if Cop is not there and if someone still is following the traffic rules they mistreat them. These people pass judgment on politicians that they don’t do anything, what have they done to pick a good politician?? They find faults on EVERY SINGLE THING about this nation but since they are SO IMPOTENT TO DO ANYTHING, they just adjust themselves and begin criticizing those people who in fact are trying to make differences by their efforts.

This category is SO HOPELESS I can barely give any explanation. They can’t even handle little things what they will make difference to the India.

If something is incorrect then instead of complaining about it they just get adjusted to that or they shout on that gatekeeper, housekeeper, sweeper or that waiter who they know cannot shout back on them. They just know to chatter and disapprove of things but when reality comes they are prepared to lick ANYONE’S ASS.

These people deserve to die in terrorists assaults. You will not do because it did not happen with you !!! Are you waiting for it to happen with you then you will act in agony ??

I bet that 50% people will not even recognize the person in the adjoining picture.

3. Third group is the people who are in reality doing something to make difference and generally get killed by our politicians or by terrorists, they are NGOs, Army, NSG, SALUTE to them but I don’t want to mention police because in my eyes they are still not doing anything apart from to humiliating us.

4. The final kind is what my friend (Arvind Mathur) called the other day is NANOrity, people like me, I want to do something for my country but my difficulty is that I m not permitted to do it because I have many responsibilities to deal with, I m not permissible to do anything which could jeopardize my employment. People have told me not to waste time by writing blogs at the time of recession because if someone finds out then my profession could be at stake. But dilemma is I am not normal, I JUST CANT ABSORB SOMETHING IMMORAL, I want to do all those things which will help me facing myself in mirror every morning.

# I am the person who stops on RED light EVERY SINGLE TIME.

# I am the person who raises his voice against WRONG instead of ignoring it.
# I am the person who is prepared to go to any degree against WRONG instead of changing my opinion.

# I am the person who does not pay bribe.

# I am the person who throws the waste in the DUSTBIN.

# I am the person who says THANK YOU even to a waiter, auto driver and even to the person who comes to collect my tea cup just because I am using his services, he is also a human being and he desrve appreciation too.

# I am the person who says SORRY if it’s my fault instead of fighting in the middle of the road.

# I am the person who follows the queue instead breaking the line and feel smart about it, LOOSERS.

# I am the person who does not allow food to get wasted, I don’t mind taking small quantity twice.

# I am the person who knows the significance of time.

# I am the person who knows the importance of money.

# I am the person who knows the meaning of self Respect.

I have not done anything enormous but I m self pleased.

I wanted to inscribe much more then this but the dilemma is if I write a lengthy blog people wont read it so what’s the use, anyways I don’t think more then 15 people out of 130 to whom I send read it :-)

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