That Cool Guy on Bike

Its night 1AM.

(Scene: A cop in night duty has held a guy and questions him about his late night drive)

Cop : Hey Why are you driving at this time?
Guy: Friend's birthday party.

Cop : Are u drunk?
Guy : No

Cop : Blow
Guy : Ugh Ugh ... see i havent drunk

Cop : Give me your dad's phone no
Guy : xxxxxxxx

Cop : Dialled and ringing, no one's answering..
Guy : Who will be in office at this time?( That was Dad's office number :D)

Cop : Lets go to station.
Guy : Yes Lets go

On the way,

Cop : how much money u have?
Guy : No money.I m ready to go to station

The Cop eventually gets fed up and let the guy go.

This guy keep getting caught in such situations because he goes around 70 kms in bangalore everyday just to meet his friends and keep everyone happy..!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He isnt worried abt his time or money.. All he wants are good memories of days spent together with his friends, for trying out all weird stuff so that he doesnt regret later that he didnt enjoy life as he wanted.

Sometimes I think its good to be like him-> carefree and merry go lucky guy.
After all , what will you achieve by working crazily and being perfect.. Only Stress related diseases.

 

The difference lies in how each one of us does with our time. We need to live each moment.

 As John Lennon said, "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans". 

Its Appraisal Time!!!!

Its that time of the year where colleagues visit cafeteria more often. Its that time of the year for gossips, comparing and taking a tough decision of even quitting.

For those who dont know about it ,let me introduce it in a briefly.

Once a person joins an organisation, He/ she is responsible directly or indirectly forthe business and revenue of the organisation every year. At the end of the year, the organisation does share its profit based on one's contribution which is reflected as hike.People's contribution vary in different measures at different times.But who is to decide if one's contribution is significant or not? its all about doing one's job in the

 best possible way.

For engineers, its about innovating process, algorithms and technical concepts which contributes to the organisation.As an engineer , one is expected to be fundamentally sound in what one does and he executes the assigned job as expected.For leaders and management, its about providing direction to engineers. Its about giving guidance and expertise so that the goal of the organisation is met.A performance appraisal should be the opportunity for a leader in an organisation to set the development opportunities for his team .It should be an invigorating, refreshing occasion.But most of times it becomes a critizingsession and employess take extreme decisions.

Performance appraisal systems which are conducted just for routine sake , where the employee concerns arent given weightage, he/she is not provided with any direction are a failure and should be stopped for the good of the organisation.It should

 create an atmosphere where it brings out the best in them by identifying defects and providing a corrective action.A leader should posses the communicative skill to get the new joinee/experienced employee to believe his logical conclusions abt his/her performance is correct.

The forced bell curve; expecting in any group that there will be some poor employees and some great employees is a common bias.A leader should always be unbiased and supportive to the team. Most of the times, employee decides to quit not because

he isnt happy with work , but he isnt happy with his boss.

On the other hand, engineers  need to take responsibility for their work and put in efforts to improve continously. Ideas should be put forth and executed to improve the current job.Because at the end of the day, its all about engineering and we are bound

 to identify problem areas and provide solutions.

A good performance system should have structure that fits the nature of the business.Whether an employee's performance is below where it needs to be or above where we expect it to be, a leader must give immediate feedback.Not only do the leaders

should be a coach he also need to be able to take criticism from subordinates and peers and deal with it.

On the whole, both engineers and people playing leadership roles should ultimately work to meet the goals of the organisation rather than finding faults with each other and

creating a negative ambience at work.

Best of Luck for Appraisals!!!!

On a Valentine journey....

The most unique thing about human search is that it never ends and we dont realise.

 There is always a search of external (materialistic ) things or internal ( peace) things

in life and life goes on searching.

Those who are single search for a companion, those with a companion search for a

memorable moment and happiness. People often dont realise the fact that the person

who made u happy is the one who makes u sad.
When sad, people give up on relationship n search for another instead of growing

with it and the saga continues...

Ideal Friend, Ideal Relationship , Ideal person.. there's nothing like that , only thing we

all need to work on what we want constantly which is what life is all about..Its not about

the final destination , its the journey that makes complete and a companion is a person

who makes jounery all the more beautiful!!

Happy Valentine!!!