September 26, 2022

It was about 18 years back. I was new to corporates and was slowly learning the tricks of the trade – the art of surviving in a corporate. People around me told me a big secret to success – “Come to the office before your boss comes. And leave only after your boss leaves”. I

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November 22, 2014

Long back when I had just started working for a BPO, I was sent a forwarded email from one of my friend who had quit the company and moved onto a better paying company. (Note the 2 things in this sentence – First, he had joined on the same date as me and Second, what

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November 9, 2014

Organized? I still remember the day when I was in College. My room used to be one garbage hole, not because it was filled with garbage but because even the most useful of things in there looked like garbage. Clothes would be everywhere, books spread around on the floor, waste papers hardly finding the bin

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October 21, 2014

Picture this. An interesting group with some subordinates, a couple of executives and leaders, an interesting discussion on cars, speeds, torques, power etc. and suddenly one from the group who had been quite all through out speaks out – “The Torque of the all Honda cars are amazing. The moment you push the brake, the

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October 8, 2014

I was very upset. It was more than a week that I had smiled at anyone at office. Failure was a little too much for me to bear. I was not willing to let go of it. While it made no difference to anybody around me, it made a huge difference to me and anyone

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June 14, 2013

It’s been quite some time that I wrote a post here at bpodiary. Blame it on the amount of work that I had taken upon myself, personal life and the urge to spend that extra time with my daughter or, on the sheer laziness and procrastination, it was a loss to me in many ways

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