Lay-offs

“A recession is when your neighbor loses his job, a depression is when you lose your job” Quoted in Time, 22 Feb. 1954. Frequently attributed to Harry Truman, but the earliest evidence of Truman’s using it is later than 1954.
A quote copied from internet. which is 100% true.

I am hearing a lot of things like ... lay-off at this company ....so many people laid-off in that company.... X company to lay off Y number of people in z number of years and so on. All these were a NEWS items for me till last week, when i saw a lay-off at my company. I had a meeting with my program manger in the morning and life was going as usual. I went to the kitchen & got myself the coffee and was entering the lab when i saw my program manger being escorted with his Manager. I couldn't see the expression on his face.

For few minutes i felt so bad about him. This is the first layoff of this kind i am seeing(Earlier i have seen the layoff of my roommates, but then the scenario was different). When the economy is doing bad and when the no job in any company, this lay off would cost you more than ever imagined. All the weekend and throughout the week my mood was down. Thinking & Re-Thinking of whats happening around me. Some greedy buggers betting money on something have spoiled everything, literally everything. They have screwed up almost everyones life around the world. I feel only hard core communist countries are least affected by such things. The system has been systematically screwed up to an extent that it would require lots of lots of efforts to set it right.

With a Hope in my Heart that it would be alright after a while, i am moving on & Wish all the best for the people out there.

SATYAM

I am hearing the NEWS about SATYAM from few days now. Am bit worried about all my friends who are working there. More Tensed about the echo system surrounding SATYAM. Because its not only the engineers and their families but also the guys who enable the engineers to work seamlessly for 8Hrs a day. The guy preparing the Coffee/Tea/Juice, or the person managing the garden or the security personal or the guy who manges the office supplies and lot more. If you take a ratio of engineer to enablement staff then that would be 1 is to 2.5 or so. So the total ecosystem of SATYAM would not merely 53K engineers + their families but somewhere around 160K + Families.

Few Greedy management guys are responsible for all this mess. The creator has become a destroyer of SATYAM. I don't know, its the pressure on him which made him to do this or his GREED. In either case the echo system is hit badly and I pray GOD for a smooth transitioning of this company. May the echo system gets the extra energy to drive this company through this difficult phase and not let the hopes down.

SCHOOL DAYS

Its been a while i have not written anything in my blog. Many of my blog fans are complaining about that. I was little busy you know [;)].

I had a nice holiday time at the end of last year which i spent with my frnd's in COLD east coast. I would be starting to work from tomorrow. Am little tired of my vacation time and little NERVOUS that i need to go to work tomorrow. Not actually NERVOUS but SAD. Not SAD but a mixed felling which i am not sure of what to call it as? Am sure many of you will also be having such mixed feeling to go to office after a long holiday season.

Its good to be on vacation but worse to return back to normal routine. Suddenly i realized, i used to have the same kinda feeling to go back to school after our summer vacation. I still remember the two parts in me, 1st one wants to go to school and he is bored with the summer time and wants to learn more and grow older and the 2nd daemon wants to play in that MID DAY bright sunlight (Temp is often between 30~40 degree centigrades). At the end June 1st is all set to ROCK us with a new class room, new benches to scratch, new books to write, new pen and pencil, some new teachers, some old buddies and some new. But here in my case i will be having the same old stuff[:(]. I don't know whether to laugh or cry at my state now. Anyways its all what i can have for now & hope that would be the BEST i deserve. That's why i named this as "SCHOOL DAYS".

i wish you all a very HAPPY NEW YEAR guys and have a nice time @ your SCHOOLS with some promotions in your personal & professional life [:)].