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