If the teacher documents that the student spelled it as PEEKOK, what can the poor student do?…If a 2nd grade student is asked to spell the word ‘Peacock’ in an oral test at school and the student spells it as PEACOCK, yet the teacher documents that the student spelled it as PEEKOK and passes on…
Category: HR
It Really Was Urgent!
Disclaimer 1: Below is a fictional conversation! This never happened. Client: Hey Abhinav, there’s an urgent product query. Can you set up a call with the Product team today itself please? Me: I am down with High Fever. If it’s not very urgent, can we do it sometime tomorrow? Client: Umm, just see na if…
KYC & BGV : Need or Luxury?
Pritam, the HR head of an Organisation, was having this chat with his friend Vishnu, also heading HR function in another Organisation. Pritam: There is an employee, who just completed about 6 months, and we came to know that one of the employments he has shown, is fake! Turns out that there’s an employment gap…
What’s Your Way With The Clay?
While I was walking past an old market area in the city, I came across two pottery shops, located adjacent to each other. In the first shop, I saw some 100-120 pots. The shop owner told me that they make and sell only 6 types (or shapes) of pots and produce anywhere between 140 to…
Just Work… From Home, or Wherever!
The Covid-19 Pandemic has forced organisations across the globe to adopt Work from Home as a core practice in their organisation’s culture. “Honestly, Work from Home is utter rubbish, it doesn’t work…”, said my manager, from one of my previous organisations. A little background here… I used to stay in Kharghar (a part of Navi…
Should You Really Be Blindly Loyal Towards Your Employer???
It’s been months since we started getting affected by Covid – 19. The growth of virus spread from the month of March till today has been extremely shocking and almost no country’s medical infrastructure in the world was ever prepared to handle the spread efficiently! The statistic in India till yesterday afternoon was as follows:…
Assessments and Evaluation
9.50 PM: Jerin finished his dinner in haste and was getting up from the dinner table. His friends, who were still eating dinner, were surprised. Aakash enquired, “Hey Jerin, any problem? Why are you in a hurry?” Jerin paused for a moment and said, “Hey sorry man, just remembered that I have to call someone…
A Matter of Retention!
It was a casual Saturday afternoon and Vighnesh, like he has been doing since school days, was lying on the couch at Sujeet’s place. Sujeet and Vighnesh are childhood friends and have known each other for almost 10 years now, since they were in 8th Grade or something. Since then, lazy Saturday afternoons, turning to…