Boredom at work

We have all often felt this, sometime or the other, whoever we might be, some might argue that there is always so much work to do, but isn't piled up with all wok all day yet another form of boredom? I would say very likely!!!

So what to do?

There are few things that people do
Taking tea/coffee breaks
Smoking breaks
Gossip breaks
Taking a quick nap
Call break
And so on..........

But surely believed , some of the best ideas of life and work come from these breaks, when the mind does what it wants to, so who said " boredom was ever bad "!!

The Appraisal season

Come March-April and everybody is worried about appraisals,this being the scenario in most Indian companies. Some more cautious employers hold back the appraisals till later part of the year to maximize the utility of the employees soon to fled from their company.

I found out that no matter who pays and who leaves, both the employee and employer are at risk during this season.You lose your job or you lose your resource, both important for sustainability.This of course being the aftereffect of the appraisals season.

And then there is the bargain game...who to retain and at what worth....... there is something here to ponder upon...during all this game of cat and mouse, the people who facilitate the smooth going of the process, the HR team ,who become so indispensable during this process.............what would  compensate if the brain drain happens in this department!!

Management Manages the Manager!!!

   Most of the time we as all employees find the management synomous with our manager...."I am the boss you do as I say." Same as the manager throws at us an unfriendly proposal and says," its a management decision." and washes off his hands from the situation.

So it makes most of us wonder ,"is the Management managing the Manager or the Manager is the Management."

   Amazingly the fact remains that Manager is the forerunner or the front face of the management.Though the manager is a unique identity but somewhere down the lane when a manager becomes  part of the company for a long period he carries the identity of the management and unfortunately somewhere his unique thought process blends into the system and he starts thinking like the management.
   So even though this is in the better interest of the Organisation, looking from an employee's perspective.........an empathetic manager is always desirable. 

Edible Entrepreneur

Long back I had known someone who was a high spirited fellow and a dreamer.He would always boast about his budding interest in entrepreneurship. He would just go about relentlessly taking about anything and everything to start up his own business, be it his own designer label,to his becoming a hotelier, owing an alcohol bar to moving into publishing business.Day in and day out we all friends would get jammed up with his talks.....but his company was contagious, his ideas hilarious and his treats were appeatising....

In the later years,changes were fast paced and we slowly left out in touch.Each with our busy life we hardly stayed to wonder on those carefree days.When recently sure I came across this friend of ours in his flagship store" Edible Entrepreneur".His store was more of a coffee house /snacks bar typo but had only previledged customers who were either entrepreneurs or dreaming to be one.