EssDee's Inane Insanities (or Insane Inanities)

This is my response to the " Open Letter to India's Graduating Classes ", currently doing the rounds. On reading the load of grouse that the esteemed "employer" considers as  good advice , I am, to say the least, shocked! On the basis of what I personally went through, 12 long years ago, and what I am sure millions of graduate / post-graduate freshers go through even today, I think I need to reply. I am replying because I thought then, and I still think, that employers are short-changing the fresh graduates, especially the fresh B-school graduates. Over the last 12 years, I have seen no improvement in the "employer" attitudes. Feel free to reply with bouquets or brickbats. This is the truth as I have felt it. It's the concept of "employers" and "senior managers" whom I target. And in all fairness, I am a "senior manager" now, and hope the freshers under me don't have the same complaints as I did, all those years...

Two shocks to the system. One, the Indian Army was planning a coup. Two, the bigger shock, the above news is false. And the next day, another shock: a newspaper as anti-establishment as the Indian Express totally changed its colours! Let's run through this coup thingie, with my admittedly theoretical, but rather substantial, knowledge of wars, battles, military matters. One, the troop movements reported were of one brigade of Paras and one brigade of mechanised infantry. Now, one brigade (or even a company) of elite Special Forces (henceforth referred to as SF) can beat the living crap out of the entire Delhi Police. Or any other copper force in the country. With their bare hands. With the cops as armed as they can ever be. And probably even if you tie the SF's right hands behind their backs. But a brigade of light infantry, which is what all SFs basically are, can never sustain a coup. Even when reinforced with another Brigade (or even a regiment) of mechanised infantry, ...

Was reading about the Citibank chappie who conned a few uber-rich bastards (sorry, no censoring on this blog) out of 3.5 billion rupees. Clever, clever chap! I mean, these stupid clowns had millions to invest! I don't think you get millions by being stupid in life (unless it was your (legal) father who made the millions, and your mother had an affair with the domestic help behind his back), but these idiots allowed themselves to be conned so beautifully! I mean, there's this big-shot at Hero who stuffed 2 billion of his company's money!!! And I was thinking it's only impoverished idiots like me who got conned by GRQ schemes.... Find me a millionaire, let me con him......... enjoy my remaining days in the Bahamas! Here's to you, Shiv Prasad Puri, you showed us what real greedy imbeciles our high and mighty really are!!!

Saw another article on being happy at work..... do this, do that, don't waste company's time/money, be thankful that you have a job, blah, blah, ad nauseum . My question is, why? Ok, I am not supposed to surf the net (or write this blog) on company's time. Accepted. I am not getting paid to write this Insanity. But shouldn't there be a quid pro quo ? I mean, what about all those times I stay behind after 5:30 p.m.? Even 5:30:01 is too late, isn't it? There is an old story about the great Indian statesman, Chanakya, about how he, the Prime Minister of what was then the most powerful empire in the Indian Subcontinent, and most probably in entire Asia, was visited by a friend, one evening while he was doing some official work. The friend waited till the work was over, and once Chanakya was free, the first thing he did was to extinguish the lamp, and light another one. On being asked, he explained that the first lamp was his "official" one, which he obviou...

Hi! Let me start with why I call the blog Inane Insanities (or Insane Inanities). Well, aren't all blogs the same? Look at anybody else's blog, you will think, "What a crazy guy/gal", "Doesn't s/he have anything better to do?", ad infinitum . Well, there's some news for you...... the other person thinks the same when s/he looks at your blog...... So, naming this blog Inane and Insane is actually an act of honesty...... of moral courage..... This blog, like any other, is just a forum to air my views, to criticise, to be rude, to do all the other things, conveniently hiding behind the anonymosity offered by the Internet, which I cannot say / do in real life, for fear of being sued, or beaten up, or arrested. So gear up folks!!! It's totally up to you, to decide the order of  Inane and Insane..... But it will be both.... I promise....