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Workplace

My Team was busy getting ready for a demo and we tend to forget to keep things tidy. So this is how we were looking on the way. :-) I got to admit that I'm getting lazier day be day to write. Too many images in recent times. If you have a say on which was the messiest (left/right), do let me know. Or someone has a tip or two. Happy Weekend...

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Recession and Indian Mangers

I was watching someone wait in the queue to collect his bowl of cut fruits. Soon it arrived and he asked, "Oh! Can I have some honey?" Immediately came the reply from the shop keeper, "Recession Sir". I could not control my laugh. He barely was able to pronounce the word and he takes that as an excuse. Such is the situation everywhere, not many are sure how tomorrow is gonna be. My friends say, they have butterflies flying when their Manager or HR calls them for a meeting. 

India is a cost effective development center for many MNC. But the crisis is so bad that even the cost effective centers seems costly. So each companies handle recession in their own degree. 

- Layoff Employee. Clean up unwanted workforce even though they are completely in control of their economic position. 

- Have mandatory unpaid in a month. 

- Going Green.

- No free food or lavish party or Sal hikes.

- No allowances for travel, internet connection and hardware.

- Shutdown or Suspend projects. 

I heard an interesting case, where few employees are selected in their organisation. Each one is given mini project (may be a research enigma) and asked to complete it in 30 days. In successful completion they get a chance to stay with the company, else they are laid off. :) I was wondering what great ideas people get. 

One other situation is where, they know that the employee will not quit his job since the situation is bad everywhere. So they decide to take everything out of him/her in this period. More assignments and stringent dead lines. Remember: If you can write a component in 5 days, it never would be possible to build the same in 2 days since we are in recession. (It will take 10 

months to deliver a baby). Hoping on Obama's bill for some improvement. But we are sure for a rough 2009. Hope this will pass away. So I asked Sankaranpillai for some advice to improve the situation.

Me: Mr. Pillai, how can we improve the situation?

Pillai: Ask every to mangers to code if they are not already doing?

Me: Ah! :O Can you tell more about it?

Pillai: Kanna, well its simple. Allocate 50% of managers time for coding. Ask them to cut the meeting that they were doing all the time. So 2 managers is 1 developer. More workforce at the same cost.

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Winner is...

Ok, Now that I have some time in hand. I will say, who gets to fill their belly for what does "V stands for". First Thanks to everyone of the entry. I'm glad. Also to take a neutral stand, I asked my friend to judge this. Thanks to her. Amudhan was lucky with this "Varutha padatha Vaalibar Sangam". :) Amudhan is a friend and a fellow blogger who writes here here and here. 

Well, I read lot of good posts around me. Apart from some of them I share in my reader, here are few in the month of January..

Poem: A Quick love by Neha

On a Bored Evening... by Sankar

Can’t girls talk about beards? by Revathi

He,Ne,Ar,Kr and Xe. by Abirami

The biggest secret of Photography from DPS

Flickr stream of Arun

Flickr pool from BWS

I got lot more, but I need to refactor some code. :) Take care...

hsejiv

That's my blog url's unique name. Two years back, when blogger asked me a unique name for my blog I tried numerous number of times for a nice name that matches me. Unfortunately I was late. But finally I decided to stick on to 'hsejiv', If you have ever wondered where I got this. Its nothing but the reverse of my name. In short strrev("vijesh"); Now finally I have got the same printed in my t-shirt. Thanks to those guys who carried it all the way from Goa. :)

IRCTC again

In the republic day quiz at office they asked, what does IRCTC stands for? Indian Railways Catering and Tourism Corporation Limited. This year many of the holidays fall either on a Monday or Friday. So effectively for souls like me I would get change to be at home for 3 continous days. (but for that first you should plan to go..) You need to book ticket for these weekends as soon as ticket booking opens 90 days in advance in train. 

But be carefull when you book at real crunch times. Take this scenario.

7:45: Out of bed, ticket booking opens at 08:00 hrs.

7:50: Logged into IRCTC site. Waiting...

7:59: Ok, I remember the details and I will type everything fast and say book. 

8:00:30: Ok started typing and clicked book. 

MessageBox("Tickets can be booked only after 08:00 hours.");

8:05: Try again

 MessageBox("Tickets can be booked only after 08:00 hours.");

8:07: Logoff

8:09: Login again. :)

8:10: Show availability of tickets.. It said WL 120. 

Thanks to Srihari to debug and find this design issue. Problem was... Once you Login, the client browser pulls the system time and stores it. So Login into IRCTC at 7:50 is same even after 10 minutes. The clock does not ticket. So it fails on the client side validation on the browser. Ideally, it should be tied up with Sys Clock after getting the initial time from server. Fix it boss. Work around for now is to refresh the browser.

Anger

A strained throat

Those Crippled hands
Migraine head

Broken keyboard
Unpacked bags
Charged batteries

Manirathnam movies
Da Vinci Code, Kuran
and Bible

Not You, Not me.
Yeah, not him too.
F#%@