Friday, April 28, 2006

28Apr2006 Friday - GM (Life Is Calling Where R U)

Hi Friend,

Avery Good morning to you. Hope you feel comfortable in visiting the blog to read the actual mails.

Read below the useful information as well suggestion which is very well applicable for software engineers. Hope you would have got it earlier. Whatsoever, lets try to implement the same for every1's betterment.

Thanks to my friend Vishveswaran Vidyaraju (Vish, in short) for sharing this through an earlier e-mail.

Life's calling, where are you???

Especially for Software People.(Spend some time to read this)

What happens if u stay late in the office?

It's half past 8 in the office but the lights are still on..

PCs still running, coffee machines still buzzing...and who's at work?

Most of them?? ? Take a closer look.. .

All or most specimens are 20-something male species of the human race...

Look closer... again all or most of them are bachelors...and why are they sitting late?

Working hard? No way!! !

Any guesses?? ?

Let's ask one of them...

Here's what he says... "What's there 2 do after going home... here we get to surf, AC, phone, food, coffee.. that's is why I am working late...importantly no bossssssss!!!!!!!!!!!

This is the scene in most research centres and software companies and other off-shore offices.Bachelors "time-passing" during late hours in the office just b'coz they say they've nothing else to do...

Now what r the consequences... read on...

"Working"(for the record only) late hours soon becomes part of the institute or company culture.

With bosses more than eager to provide support to those "working" late in the form of taxi vouchers, food vouchers and of course good feedback,(oh, he's a hard worker... goes home only to change..!!).They aren't helping things too... To hell with bosses who don't understand the difference between "sitting" late and "working" late!! !

Very soon, the boss start expecting all employees to put in extra working hours.
So, My dear Bachelors let me tell you, life changes when u get married and start having a family... office is no longer a priority, family is... and that's when the problem starts... b'coz u start having commitments at home too.

For your boss, the earlier "hardworking" guy suddenly seems to become a "early leaver" even if u leave an hour after regular time... after doing the same amount of work.
People leaving on time after doing their tasks for the day are labeled as work-shirkers...


[A small correction here: Its not an email/blog to complain the bosses but the employees who do sit in office for late hours without any actual and useful work to do. Of course, there are exceptions for most of the things in the world, the same holds good for bosses as well employees too!!]


Girls who thankfully always (its changing nowadays... though) leave on time are labeled as "not up to it". All the while, the bachelors pat their own backs and carry on "working" not realizing that they r spoiling the work culture at their own place and never realize that they would have to regret at one point of time.

So what's the moral of the story?? *
* Very clear, LEAVE ON TIME!!! !
* Never put in extra time "*unless really needed *"
* Don't stay back un-necessarily and spoil your company work culture which will in turn cause inconvenience to you and your colleagues.

There are hundred other things to do in the evening..

Learn music... Learn a foreign language....try a sport... TT, cricket.........Importantly Get a girl friend or boy friend, take him/her around town. ..

*And for heaven's sake net cafe rates have dropped to an all-time low (plus, no fire-walls) and try cooking for a change.

Take a tip from the Smirnoff ad: *"Life's calling, where are you??"*

Please pass on this message to all those colleagues

And please do it before leaving time, don't stay back till midnight to forward this!!!

Hope you got it!


Have fun and enjoy the every moment by spending it usefully without any hindrance to others at the maximum possible extent!

Have a beautiful Friday & excellent weekend!

Cheers,
Raghavan alias Saravanan M.
[28Apr2006, Friday 8:50 AM IST]

Man has made use of his intelligence; he invented stupidity - Anonymous






Thursday, April 27, 2006

27Apr2006 Thursday - Why GM Mails in Blog?

Yes.. its been sometime i had been thinking of the same...

Well, since a few months i have been having a regular habit of sending GM mails to all my friends who are of different environments. Most of them are into the IT industry, some are still students , quite a few are lecturers etc.

At times i am getting a warning/error/mailure deamon from the corporate/private mail servers complaining about either

(a) the mail size,
(b) nature of the attachment (though i used to send images of type jpeg),
(c) their mailbox size

thereby the mail is not delivered successfully ;-)

Thats why this new idea. Hope ppl will feel good by just clicking the link once and read the mails in the blog. Thats why the name of this blog is as such.

Thanks a lot ppl,
Good times ahead!
Raghavan alias Saravanan M.
[27April2006 Thursday 9:06 AM IST]

27Apr2006 Thursday - GM! (Spread Love Everywhere)

Dear Friend,

Avery Good Morning to you to start your day's work.

Please have a look at the pic for the day ("Spread Love Everywhere.jpg").




Have a nice Thursday!

Cheers,

Raghavan alias Saravanan M.

"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself"