Salary Package - Trick or Treat

Greetings,

Here is another good one from the Turmoil Inc, the hypothetical company being run by an indian analogy series of Dilbert.

However, there is a serious thought behind every genuine humour otherwise people don't like it. Companies are seriously resorting to find ways to retain talent. One of the adopted ways is to offer inflated salary packages. Companies are resorting to include Variable component, Performance Bonus, Earned Leaves, Super Annuation, Gratuity and what not just to make the annual package look like a mammoth. However, under the skin of it, you will not find much flesh but a skeleton of bones padded with hopes and promises.

Here's why!! Super Annuation, Gratuity etc are never monthly or annual income components. You receive them after 4-5 years but guess what; not many people stick in the compnay for so long. Variable components are also trickily planned and your performance bonus is also linked to organization, BU and god knows what else's performance so you will never get it full. Even if you get 50%, cheer up. And since when ELs have become part of your annual salary package but listen to today's HR managers and they will tell you a list of other options that they plan to bring under your CTC umbrella so that on papers, you look like a king but in reality you get to eat beans, not chicken. HR managers are happy with their ideas because people are happy to become victims to such policies.

~ Navjot Singh

Purpose In Life !!

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Right now, somebody sent me an inspirational and emotional email about PIL i.e. purpose in life of every human being. So, I just thought of bringing another perspective of it.

Remember.....when we were kids..each of us wanted to be "someone". Pilot/ Doctor/ Engineer and the list goes on. It needs a beggar's description to say that our parents/relaties/teachers had great influence over that choice. Slowly in the teens age, our priorities change..we started knowing ourselves and re-thought what we wanted to be. Now, the choice was different than earlier one because we could think of more options now. Doctor/ Painter/ Musician/ Journalist and some still stuck to become what they had originally thought off. Just after teens age, many realize that the world wouldn't allow us to do what we want. So, we choose what's liked by and acceptable in society. At that point, we just buried our *FIRST" choice. Maybe, that was our PIL.

Slowly, we got into the daily grind and some hard-life priorities hit our life. Somehow, "making money and performing daily chores" becomes one purpose for the MOST, who actually form the major chunk of our society. In the business, we lose our inner voice (maybe PIL again) and just goes on to do whatever is happening. We don't choose for ourselves, others do. Some people will still crave for what they really want to do. Out of these, some get successful and will be labelled as "celebrities" one way or the other. Rest will be labelled as "fools" by our saint society.

But if you get free time and you sit alone, something must encroach your mind and heart ---- "What am I doing? Where am I heading to? Is this what I wanted to do? Is this what's called as living a life?." But, this is what life is. Life is full of choices. Even if you choose not to make a chocie, you are still choosing.

By the way, in the larger context of life, nothing really matters. so chill out :-)
~ Navjot Singh Sohanpal

Making your life simple?

Greetings,

Just click on this infromative news and go towards the bottom of the article. You will see an array of images, 16 to be precise, unless they add more by the time you read that article.

If you are net savvy, you would know what each of these mean. If you don't know, you would never need to know. But my objective of this blog is just to highlight the fact that all those links were simple ideas with simple objectives but now collectively they add up to what I call as clutter of information which will lead the Internet to be more entropic.

One simple example that comes to my mind is a widget on iGoogle that lets you count the number of water glasses that you have taken in. See, how simple it made your stressful life that you don't need to count your water intake!!! How about adding another widget that counts the number of times you went to pee and then draw some trends over the weeks/months/years etc.

Let's make life simple!!
~ Navjot Singh Sohanpal