Bachelor Beer Party

Bachelor's Beer Party

Well, some events execute well and is more memorable if unplanned & happen with momentum. Yesterday was one of such events a gathering of 3 team mates just after the work. None of us would have thought that we would be landing up together at a common place holding a can of beer.

Yesterday was the same usual day arrived at 9 am (my usual time is close to 10 am)and leaving office at 10pm as I had a call. While leaving I thought to curse Chandan who had his reviewed planned today early morning (Two continous day to come to Office early ...common guys we need some extra sleep.....) ...So we thought to leave together and I will drop him near my home to take auto ....then the plan changed to having dinner together ... then to having beer together ( cheeerrrrrssssssss !!!!!!!!!!!)... While having beer we just thought to call up the 3rd face of our bachelor Trimurti of our team - Ridhish... We called him up and as usual we played the prank about us drinking at office and Ridhish as usual because of his innocence believed us....This poor chap is too innocent now ...I should say "Devil in the making" instead ;) . After knowing that we are at home and my home is near by...He dropped in too with a pre-condition that we get a beer for him before the bar closes (It was 10:30 pm and generally bar closes at 11pm in Bangalore.......ohhhhh yuk.......11pm all bars close :( Bangalore still sucks in this regard)...we got a beer for him & three of us landed up in my place with Beer...





Now everyone can imagine the topic / discussion happening when 3 bachelor team mates meet with a jar of beer ---huh !!! We did discussed chicks in our company and how we are sufferring at the hands of our Mgr, and whole lot of shit which we never thought would discuss.....Ahh !!!!!!!! But that was a good time felt like I am back to my Hostel days ....:)

Cost Cutting...

Cost Cutting

Seems like party for the IT software companies are over now.They won't be getting the same kind of growth of 40-60% as they were getting sometime back. Different companies are adopting different strategy to cope up with this situation. Some companies are on hiring freeze mode, some are on firing mode, some are in cost cutting while some are in salary cut mode. Or to say in simple terms most of them seems to be planning for short term or are just in survival mode. But is industry really low? Well, if you ask me, answer is both yes and no. Let us look to some specific industries, say Telecom. The sales of mid- & low-tier phones may be down as compared to last year, but it is being projected that smart phones will show a huge growth, projected around +50%. Now, smart phones category is a totally new segment and with the price of smart phones being on the higher end means that it will bring more revenue. So even if the number of units sold will be less, the revenue will be more. Same for auto-industry, though sales of more generic petro-automobiles are on downtrend, but consumers are now looking more inclined towards automobile which runs on Bio-diesel / Electricity / LPG... So for me no industry is down we just need to look for opportunities.

Whatever I might say or think but I fall on the side of being affected by one of the survival modes adapted by my company. AHhhhh ......no.....but yeah....there has been a salary cut of 10% through out my organisation .....& if you are in bench your cut will be 40%.........Thank God I didn't take any loans so don't have to pay any EMI's....But when I think of some person who might have taken a loan and has some EMI's to pay ...how will they cope up with it.....

With bloodbath all in the market...it seems right time to upgrade my skill - may be for an MBA....

Lets see ...Hope for the best