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The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of
A long lost acquaintance suddenly pings you on LinkedIn. Now, if it was a long-lost friend, you would have been pleasantly surprised but with an acquaintance, you just do the bare formalities: Alive?...
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EliteInc.
A company is a highly designed place full of people who have landed there by default. Once there, they learn the rules of the reality show called employment. Like in any other motley group, some learn...
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Santa None the Less
‘What’s wrong with a table clock?’ You say having never bought into the secret Santa gimmick. ‘Nothing, if it was 2012,’ says Karen, obviously more sold than you. ‘You mean a table clock is so last...
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Higher Resolution
27 and counting. That is how many times you have had to wish people ‘Happy New Year’ superimposed with a smile. At least, online you can get away with abbrevating to ‘HNY,’ using copy-paste and...
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Fire Drill
Your father always talked about learning from experience. That way to wisdom has long since been discredited. This is a world of preparation and pre-preparation. And we are better and safer off for it....
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OUT OF OFFICE
Courtesy is a form of formality. And formality is; in most cases, imposed. At least you find it so. This adds to the tedium of being in an office for the major part of your waking day. Till your major...
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Not a Morning Person
As the minutes pass into hours and hours turn into the morning, you realise time is unforgiving. It is cold and consistent. No wonder you are not on good terms with it. If you were to plot a graph of...
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Stranger to Kindness
As related by a friend Of the many things that are in abundance in this world, plight is one that courts you on a daily basis. And plight of a personal nature is like being in an abusive relationship;...
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The Way to a Manager’s Heart…
As related by a friend and fellow slave Managers are people too. This dawns on you from time to time. But in the interim, they just seem like a peculiar tribe slave to rigid practices and pointless...
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We Have a Policy for That
If you had a dime for every time you heard that, you would need another policy. With every passing year and revised battery of policies, it becomes harder to discern if you have slipped into more...
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Secret Santa
Both secrets and good deeds have been conspicuously absent from your life thus far. So a good deed carried out secretly would be against the run of play indeed. To say that the chances of such a thing...
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Work and Play
Work and play don’t mix. But that doesn’t stop your overlords from trying. Outbound fun they call it. Predictable logos and free-size t-shirts are made. And very quietly, it is mentioned that...
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Every Farewell Note Ever
Deer Phriends, With a heavy heart and a light pocket, today I say <insert google searched French word for goodbye> My time with Acme Chemicals has been fantabulous, like an orgasm every minute....
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Switch off the damn WiFi
It’s been an hour since you’ve been staring at your screen, a month since you took a break and a year since you put out a blog post. But Facebook is the new blogging, Insta is the new Facebook and...
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The Biggest Ponzi Scheme in the World
Nietzsche proclaimed ‘God is dead’ in 1882. But HR is keeping Him alive for KRA purposes. From Rangoli competitions to Secret Santa, no festival, tradition or tribal mating ritual will be left behind....
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Freelance Warrior
It is easy to fall into the ‘Pen is mightier than the sword’ wordplay. But one man’s knight is another man’s mercenary. In a post-modern WiFi inundated world, knights are often slouched behind desks...
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Bachelor of Commerce
‘I can’t afford one more baby,’ you say instinctively as the collections start for Govind’s second child’s first gift. Ideally Govind should have been saying it. Perhaps he did but after it was too...
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Friends, Family and People You May Know…
Sometimes you wonder if beneath all the layers of niceties and formalities does a real person exist or did he go into a coma a long time ago. May be your colleagues think the same way about you. But...
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Being Polite is the Slowest Way to Die
‘Being polite is the slowest way to die!’ you had heard in a motivational workshop. But that was for sales guys. Now you are in an air-conditioned office where interactions can be more hostile but...
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One Page CV
After your blood test your CV is the most telling document on how you have lived your life. You have been starring at it for ten minutes now and even the cursor seems reluctant to blink. It’s all...
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