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Have a laugh….

Post author By Senthilkumar
Post date October 1, 2009

I receive the Silicon India’s newsletter and the humour submitted by the readers are real treat… today on Silicon India was this: url here

Does the management know its employees are??

On walking into the factory, the Managing Director of the Company noticed a young guy… leaning against the wall and doing nothing.

He approached the young man and calmly said to him, “How much do you earn?”

The young man was quite amazed that he was asked such A personal question, he replied, none the less, “I earn $ 2000.00 a month, Sir. Why?”

Without answering, the MD took out his wallet and removed $6000.00 cash and gave it to the young man and said,

“Around here I pay people for working, not for standing around looking pretty!

Here is your 3 months salary, now GET OUT and don’t come back”.

The young man turned around and was quickly out of sight.

Noticing a few onlookers, the MD said in a very upset manner,

“And that applies to everybody in this company”.

He approached one of the onlookers and asked him, “Who’s the young man I just fired?”

To which an amazing reply came – “He was the pizza delivery guy , Sir!”

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Lots of things….news analyses…

Post author By Senthilkumar
Post date September 30, 2009

I think I am putting finger to keyboard after a long time literally to sit and scribble my thoughts… Last week was a learning experience for me with my new sessions at Sri Ramakrishna and Kongunadu Arts.

It was definitely good to see people actually treating Branding as a subject. I thought it might not cut ice, but it was surprise when they actually related so easy to it.

on the F1 front, the rumour mill had enough of this story of Alonso and the Ferrari and today it ground to a halt with an official announcement from the Italian outfit. Alonso will partner Massa and Fisichella in the next year.

So Kimi will be released and more importantly Kubica will arrive as No.1 at Renault. Kimi to Mclaren alongside Lewis? We are awaiting a formal announcement soon.

Now it the Air India which took to Jet Style, sorry the pilots I mean took to sick leave leaving the national carrier grounded for over four days. Missing was the effevescent Mr. Praful Patel during this time.

Sorely missing Mr. Shashi Tharoor too and his tweets… 🙁

In the idiot box tube the reality is taking too much of a strain with the kids barely a year old making their debut at the NDTV Imagine reality show after Rakhi’s Swayamvar.

Talking of Rakhi, theres Rahul Mahajan who’s doing Act II of searching his bride to be on a reality show… waiting to see whats up for the eyeballs, surely the TRPS are bound to be high knowing pretty well how playboyish Rahul is. The news is that his wife will not participate in the show. I wonder what Pramod Mahajan is thinking looking down from heaven?

On the climate change front the powers that be are looking to make it happen. Lets hope to save the future for future’s sake.

That’s it for now…

Tags alonso, F1, rahul mahajan, rakhi sawant

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really sorry state of affairs this…

Post author By Senthilkumar
Post date September 27, 2009

Since when did the taking care of parents become legal , you might ask, but look at this article in rediff.com you can be sure its really thoughtful of the judge to do such a thing….

This brings us the question where will we see our future generation vis a vis taking care of the parents. With no joint family system it will be really tough to make it happen.

Tags parents and children

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The Brand You presentation…

Post author By Senthilkumar
Post date September 25, 2009

This is the presentation I did on Brand You. this was a part of the Future – a programme by JCI Coimbatore Cosmo.

The first programme was at Sri Ramakrishna College of Arts and Sciences for Women, Avarampalayam, Coimbatore.

Jc Ananthakrishnan, a senior JCI and an auditor by profession set the day rolling with his ‘Emotional Intelligence.’

I followed it with my presentation on Brand You.

Brand You

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Twitter’s brand ambasador in India

Post author By Senthilkumar
Post date September 20, 2009

After I tweeted making Shashi Tharoor the Brand Ambassador for Twitter in India, he is now become the a kind of official if we are going by the twitters world.

See the report on the Hindu here.

Now what I have noticed is there are many followers who can be easily the spam equivalent in our mail box…

mm, we need to be sure who we are following…

Tags Shashi tharoor, twitter

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Tweeple…

Post author By Senthilkumar
Post date September 18, 2009

So the contorversy refuses to die down, or as Prem Panicker put it 71 characters had the nation in swing well really no other news was picked up for the breaking news item…

There was this joke in Amit verma’ blog whats the difference between Twitter and Loksabha, it was this Twitter has 140 characters while Loksabha has 545.

Just as we see how a small English usage which has no real bad intent or purport can become a tool in the hands of sycopants literally making it look so sad for the country…

I have an idea for twitter, make Shashi Tharoor the brand ambassador…oh the fact of the matter is infact he was paid to do that twittering holycow…lol

Tags amit verma, Shashi tharoor, twitter

Branding (personal) Management Motorsports

Tweets and the fallout…

Post author By Senthilkumar
Post date September 18, 2009

Shashi Tharoor before he landed at Africa had landed in a more troublesome twittering. Poor Shashi answering to a question he had used the same words…. it was a mistake…

The whole of the country was in debate and I was wondering how come man in question is n’t replying… he was in Africa.

All this only goes to show how we are such a crazy nation and am afraid if we are trying to ape America.

On other note, the former Media Advisor to our present PM said in a way that those who are twittering or those kind are really a minority now thats a statistic we should consider to eradicate…

On the F1 front, the Renault stands exposed by the men who were the face of Renault. Now what is the big Q out at the paddock…

I wrote an open letter to Vijay Mallya and thot it fit not to publish that…

Tags Renault F1, Shashi tharoor

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Aha Mallya speaks out…

Post author By Senthilkumar
Post date September 15, 2009

Its making heads turn well Mr. Mallya had done it on tracks and this time around he is pretty sure our Indian drivers who ever they are need to be up to the mark.

Some thoughtful provocation for the Indian Motorsports fraternity and ofcourse leaves me thinking whats does he have in mind.

I have an idea for KC, look further KC, there are enough teams, and its should be a good fit for you to learn the tricks before you end in a good team.

Read the story in here

Tags Karun Chandhok, Vijay Mallya

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At last after almost a week…

Post author By Senthilkumar
Post date September 14, 2009

I have not been able to blog the way I wanted last week with exams in my schedule. With a sigh of relief I am back to business and hopefully be able to be online everyday.

Last week was memorable in many ways, Rahul Gandhi was in town and had an opportunity to meet him. This man has the potential to turn the tide against the erring politicians or at least that’s the hope one gets listening to him. Ofcourse we were told that he was against connecting the rivers, I don’t know why he said that or what he meant when he said that.

It was simply great to listen to him. At his age he is matured and is living a dream and preparing himself. Ofcourse it strikes you that he is no Jagan from AP and thats a positive always.

The F1 has more interesting news for India in Adrian Sutil. He was the unsung man when Fisi did the most remarkable job of putting the Force India Car on pole and made Kimi sweat it out to get his place in the podium at Belgium. This time around it was Adrian’s turn and this show went on to prove that the way FF1 raced was no flash in the pan.

They have literally jumped yards from being into the points to being for the podium. A turnaround for sure and it will be great if we can see this continue in the next year.

Alongside, Bernie was not happy at Karun not being invited to Force India F1 for the seat that Fisi vacated to join Ferrari which even Mallya termed as the dream of any F1 driver and more so of an Italina F1 driver and they supported the fruition of such dream for Fisi.

Exams are a nervous things by itself. Sometimes we begin to wonder what has gone into the minds of the Question paper setter, so much so that he thinks we need to know everything to master that subject in theory not so much in practical terms. I was sad that we did not have a single question in practical mode to suggest a solution. Long live my University.

Will catch up.