Its all in the mind..

JUST LAST MONTH… HE WAS HANDED THE EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH CERTIFICATE AND $100 CHECK…..

SAME  DATE , SAME DAY A MONTH LATER …HE GOT A FATTER CHECK.. BUT IT WAS ALSO THE HIS LAST ONE WRAPPED IN A PINK SLIP.

 

DAVID DIDNOT KNOW WHAT HIT HIM, HOW AND WHERE DID HE GO WRONG.

He was smart punctual, honest and hardworking. He had all that was required to fulfil his role . Yet he was in the first group of people fired.

Each year a million people get the PINK SLIP in North America ALONE. Many see it coming for obvious reasons.

TEN THINGS YOU MUST CONSIDER WHEN YOU GET FIRED OR LOSE A JOB.

1. IT CAN HAPPEN TO ANYONE ANYTIME

2. IT COULD HAPPEN EVEN IF YOU DONT DESERVE IT..DONT DWELL ON IT

3. REVIEW YOUR RIGHTS . TAKE PROFESSIONAL ADVICE AND IF YOU FIND GAPS FIGHT POSITIVELY

4. TAKE A STOCK OF YOUR PERSONAL INVENTORY. EACH ASSET SHOULD BE EVALUATED. EACH PENNY LOCATED AND EACH FORGOTTEN LOAN RECOVERED

5. EVALUATE YOUR LOANS AND REACH OUT TO YOUR BANKER OR CREDIT CARD COMPANY BEFORE THEY START HUNTING YOU.  MORE OFTEN THAN NOT YOU SHALL BE ABLE TO STRIKE A FAVORABLE DEAL.

6. REHEARSE HONEST ANSWER TO THE FUTURE EMPLOYERS FAV QUESTION”WHAT WAS THE REASON FOR LEAVING THE LAST JOB”.

7. VOLUNTEER INFORMATION DURING PERSONAL INTERVIEW AND QUICKLY MOVE ON FORWARD.

8. STAY FOCUSSED ON CURRENT SITUATION. DONT BECOME A COUCH POTATO.LESSER TV MORE OF ONLINE JOB SEARCHING. ACTIVATE YOUR PEOPLE NETWORKS AND DONT BE SHY TO ASK FOR HELP.

9. STAY SHARP AND FOCUSSED. TAKE FREQUENT POSITIVE BREAKS. MAINTAIN YOUR PERSONAL HYGEINE, SHAVE AND BE APPROPRIATELY DRESSED. MOSTLY “ITS ALL IN THE MIND”

10.LASTLY NO PERSONAL GRUDGES, NO FORMER BOSS/MANAGER BITCHING, POSITIVE ATTITUDE AND NO SELF PITY.

 

ALWAYS REMEMBER

Failure is an event, never a person.  ~William D. Brown, Welcome Stress

 

Pink slip refers to the American practice, by a Personal department, of including a discharge notice (printed on pink paper) in an employee’s pay envelope to notify the worker of his or her  termination of employment or layoff  According to an article in The New York Times, the editors of the Random House Dictionary dated the term to at least 1910. Originally the color of the paper had no particular significance. In the UK and Ireland the equivalent of a pink slip is a P45 in Belgium the equivalent is known as a C4

hi!

Hi!

a/s/l

26/female/LA usa and u?

27/male/chicago and single ready to mingle…

sweet !

what do u do?

I am a professional boxer.. I play for money ..and u?

I am a ballet dancer and trainer

gosh!!!

I was just watching my buddy Daniels’ screen. There he was 40+ , slightly on the plump side , almost bald and unable to climb the third floor when the lift was not working. Boxer ..my foot. Yet he could go on and on…for hours , one lie after the other. Later he would try to meet the girls he chatted with. Dunno how he could gather the guts but somehow he did.

So one day after numerous chats he decided to meet this one too. We waited for hours before we got a call. Hi! I would love to meet you but i have a confession to make…. ahh.. emm… I am not as young as I said . Well I could see a grin on Daniels face. “Its ok”, he said . So, how old are you?

53… THUD!!!!

Honesty is the human quality of communicating and acting truthfully related to truth as a value. This includes listening, and any action in the human repertoire — as well as speaking. Superficially, honesty means simply stating facts and views as best one truly believes them to be. It includes both honesty to others, and to oneself and about one’s own motives and inner reality. Honesty, at times, has the ability to cause misfortune to the person who displays it. Honesty can also mean fairness, and truthfulness, and the avoidance of misleading people.

Web and honesty are a rare combination. Judging by my personal experiences I am afraid extremly rare.

So I thought why not create a new word. Who knows it might become a movement one day .

My crusade is about WEB+HONESTY = “WONESTY”.

If all works well , some years from now people wud say ..hi I am xyz and I am Wonest.

Average homosapien spends 3-4.5 hours on the Internet. At any given time 15% of humanity is not practicing “WONESTY”.

Imagine …Trades , deals , chats ,confessions, promises, miracle cures, tourism, counselling etc etc .. All aided and abetted by dishonesty in the real and “DISWONESTY” in the virtual world.

Well! we might end up spending 15% of our lives in an unreal , DISWONEST virtual world. Scary!! isn’t it?

But then imagine if Daniel was honest. OH for gods sake I know its difficult to imagine that but hypothecially. Then the conversation would go like this…

hi!

Hi!

a/s/l

53/female/champaign usa and u?

46/male/palm springs and married always on the leash…

sweet !

what do u do?

i am a cook at the Indian eatery?

i work at the grocery store.

ok ttyl.. bye

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. ~Henry Louis Mencken, A Little Book in C Major, 1916

ITS ALL IN THE MIND….
I am writing after a long time …. why ? I dunno!
It all started with a a chance conversation with a gentleman on American Airlines. Seated in Business class after a battered reality check on US STAFFING conditions. …. lets call him Mr INDIA
He was going back and forth from business to cabin. Then I had to poke my nose and ask.. I am glad i did
He looked calm, a rarity in 2008 . We struck the right cord almost immediately .
Why ,where, how long ,how many are normal idiocracies on Desi genepool. What next ..was interesting. Mr India was not on a pleasure cum business trip . He was an NRI going back home…and forever.
Obviously I had to ask… and be apologetic in my typical geneset. But there was nothing to feel bad ,no apologies no sorries, no sadiest sighs.
“He was a migratory bird” he said . A true one indeed. He had to push himself towards greener pastures in unfriendly climate and so he was heading towards India.
Recession “Its all in the mind” .
Mr. India had not lost any job. Nor had his wife teaching at Boston university. They had come to america 11 years back . In search for a decent lifestyle, good higher education and a secure birthplace for their litter.
Now he says …that dream has outlived its life.
America is like a drunk younger brother. Always in debt ..younger brother ., and Amercian government is Like the elder brother always paying his debts off, getting into youngerones drunken brawls , fighting lost ,meaningless causes. Ofcourse the younger brother keeps drinking …as his debts are always paid off.
“i want his drinking problem to be taken care of and not his debts”
Mr. India has a point. First manufacturing,then services and IT . Now where are the jobs? And where is the mindset. Its all in the mind … …
Obama ..sounds different. We are tense . Are we? Yes mostly about Outsourcing . Remember 1000 million people is a big enough market. A huge ocean of oppurtunities.
World is just doing a “cut for seat” as we do during our diwali card games. Its not gonna stop playing. Its just trying different things from now on …as always. Its a cycle…. good for al of us. Its the time to introspect to produce the best. Time to cut out the frills, and to do a personality ISO audit. Improvement of self creates improvement of society …old boring yet “true”. Now is the time to enhance skillsets , improve employee confidence and create cohesive “thin lean mean teams”. JObs are plenty for those who deserve. The need of the hour is to be a professional …a true professional with genuine skillsets.
To all those striving to reach foreign lands … world is a global village…world is a global marketplace. Trade where there is profit. Its not the PASSPORT , ITS THE MINDSET. “ITS ALL IN THE MIND” . I said it but do i mean it… IS it really all in the mind..

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