Friday, April 10, 2009

A Moral corporate story

An intresting forward email I recieved on the current scenario of corporate industry.

Once upon a time the government with Ruling Party XYZ.. had a vast scrap yard in the middle of a desert.


Ruling Party XYZ Said.. - "Someone may steal from it at night." 

So they created a night watchman position and hired a person for the job. Then Ruling Party XYZ

Said..

- "How does the watchman do his job without instruction?" 

So they created a planning department and hired two people, one person to write the instructions, and one person to do time studies. Then Ruling Party XYZ Said.., 

- "How will we know the night watchman is doing the tasks correctly?" 

So they created a Quality Control department and hired two people. One to do the studies and one to write the reports. Then Ruling Party XYZ Said.. , 

- "How are these people going to get paid?" 

So they created the following positions, a time keeper, and a payroll officer, then hired two people. Then Ruling Party XYZ Said.., 

- "Who will be accountable for all of these people?" 

So they created an administrative section and hired three people, an Administrative Officer, Assistant Administrative Officer, and a Legal Secretary. Then Ruling Party XYZ Said.., 

- "We have had this command in operation for one year and we are $18,000 over budget, we must cutback overall cost." 

So they lay off the night watchman. 

Moral of the story: 

"Current Situation In IT industries"

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Thursday, April 9, 2009

Cricket scores on Gtalk

With cricket being played all around the world it is difficult to keep a track of the latest scores or schedules.I came across this super convenient and simple way to get instant live cricket scores and the scheduled matches using GTalk.

Just add "instacricket@askme.im" (without quotes) to your contacts in Gtalk and you are done.

In the chat window type "score" to get current scores. Type "sch" to get matches schedule.