This morning, Metroplus carried an frontpage article on "Cleanliness Quotient". It in general talked about the way youngsters fresh out of college to BPO dress up themselves and present themselves. Article discussed about the employers going that extramile to provide grooming tips to the employees.

I feel it has got more to do with upbringing and peer pressure. Sleeveless shirts with tatooed deltoids, pan stained teeth, jeans torn at the knees may give a heroic, baddy image at colleges. But these habits die hard when they join a workplace immediately after college. They treat the washroom in the office like they use to treat their hostel toilets...leaving it unusable till somebody cleans up.

I have my woeful experiences with "Twin Sharing" accomodation with one colleague or another. After few dreadful experiences, I manage to get up first and use the bathroom and leave the room. You just can't enter the bathroom after these clowns have used them. I simply cannot tolerate a wet bathroom floor in the Hotel. Many do not still know the purpose of the shower curtain. First thing these clowns do is to push the shower curtain out of the tub are push it to either of the sides to have a unhindered view of their own bodies in the mirror... the shower later spills water all over the floor and sometimes even the mirror.

One clown, pushed the curtain out of the tub and had a shower. While getting out of the tub, the wet floor skidded him down. While falling down, he gripped the bottle opener fixed to the wall of the washbasin sill.(Where we lean while shaving). The bottle opener tore his palm and he had to be rushed to a hospital and sutured. If you wonder where on earth this hotel is...it is Hotel Retreat, Malad, Mumbai. That was the most gruesome one, but I do not know if that colleague of mine, now an ex colleague had learnt any valuable lesson out of the whole experience.

Some stone age guys still squat on the western closet(to creat enough pressure to empty their constipated sh.t), and soil the white turkey towel which the hotel gracefully places as a floor mat.

These are hidden experiences, which no HR can take note of and obviously they cannot be trained on these kinda basics. Wash basin and mirror will be splashed with lather after their shave, will make you wonder if somebody bathed their pet dog there.

Shameless farting and that too silently are surely their weapons of mass destruction.

Hopeless parents produce these kind of hopeless kids, who eventually grow up and become well placed with their unknown hidden side intact.

I discovered what Backwaters are called in Malayalam. It is simply "Kayal" . I was floating in Paravoor Kayal near Kollam. Truly exotic resort. Food was great in this resort. I made some of the vegetarians spulurge on fish moily. Those exotic petal like unfolding of the cooked fish cooked in coconut milk spread over steamed rice was tasting great. Though it was too tempting to ask for the recipe I knew that I did not have half chance to cook the same in my home. Lucky me, work took me again to Kerala again the next week and this time to Taj Malabar and Kottayam. Splurged again with undeniable doses of Fosters and KF... Something I missed when I went with family...

It is almost three weeks I had gone my regular workouts and I had gained 1.5kgs. I went back to gym with a vengeance and worked out 2hours every day for the last few days.

Now the next three months are going to be terrible on every front with most of the American Organisations who follow the calendar year for business. This is the last quarter and people will refresh their memories about the deadlines and First Quarter vows. Looking back life had been like a wheel of a train, tiring journey during the last nine months. Next three madenning months will leave everyone chasing deadlines sapped completely. Then another year...and another year...Want to break this cycle soon...I have the werewithal to do so...let me see what the next moments holds me as a surprise.

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This is the message you all might get for the next one week. I am going off to chill out in a backwater resort in Kerala. I will switch off the mobile for a week.
Will wander...

Hooray...Atlast the powers that be decided to release their clasp from further strangulating the blogging community. I would like to thank The Hindu for campaigning in our favor in the last one week. Their editorial on this subject was awesome.

Also one more editorial on Civilian Nuclear Agreement with USA, the way US diplomats torment the indians over the agreement, making last minute changes which favors them, delayed technology transfer, Stricter protocols for inspection and separation by IAEA...

What followed was a series of letters to the editor which showed us the spirited indians across the board who are keen to reject this offer summarily. This is the spirit of self reliance and deep faith and belief that we can develop technology indigineously...probably we may be behind by a decade...what is decade in a history of a country...I do not know if the politicians have the guts to reject the proposal...USA has played a clever fox here...made us antoganise Iran... I believe that American Lobby removed Manishankar Iyer from Petroleum ministry...he was a poster boy of Asian energy security and he was parallely working on a system which will reduce the dependance on USA...this is much to the horror of USA...In comes Deora fully backed by USA...Deora, I would say is a Indian born who believes he is an american...plays different roles...most famous among them is playing tourist guide to visiting americans...be it Clinton or Rebecca Mark of ignoble Enron...Government thinks they can allow americans to pursue their agenda through a minor cabinet reshuffle...but fools will believe that it is a routine reshuffle.

And we have a Police Constable in FIN MIN. Great PC. Why Police Con... What is common between both is that, both are good at bullying innocent indians who just mind their own businesses.

Rant will continue

Yesterday in "The Hindu" I read a article on the new impolite and rude behaviours that is engulfing organisations today. It happens across the world...almost in all workplaces. Those workplaces range from Football stadium where a restless and edgy coach shouts and abuses his team(Motivates???) to a boss in the boardroom who growls.

This edgy feeling is catching up with all organisations which wants to reach some stupid goals which it has set itself and screwing the workforce downright in fulfilling those fantasies. Yearly targets and halfyearly reviews are light years behind... quarterly reviews are for the millenium that went by...monthly reviews are passe...we are in the midst of situation where thinking about the third week from now is considered long term...short term is today...long term is coming wednesday...Reviews are for everyday...we have this funny tools...audio conference....video conference added to this....most irritating and something pushing the nerves to a point of tautness is the hourly update through sms....that is how life is in sales today...

I am in the field...or am travelling is no excuse for not reading a mail...aircard screws the last bit of privacy in a train and the berth in the train is not as comfortable as it used to be...there were days when after a gruelling day in the field... train journey, especially in the upper berth of a 2nd ac coach was a bliss...Those tiny light at the top corner above your head will give the illumination necessary to catch up with your favorite novel...nowadays a novel remains in my laptop bag for months together...boarding passes use to serve as bookmark...but it is the reverse now...I have as many boarding passes as the number of pages in the book...

Kathirvel