This Story is about a man who once upon a time was selling Hotdogs by the roadside. He was illiterate, so he never read newspapers. He was hard of hearing, so he never listened to the radio. His eyes were weak, so he never watched television. But enthusiastically, he sold lots of hotdogs. He was smart enough to offer some attractive schemes to increase his sales. His sales and profit went up. He ordered more a more raw material and buns and use to sale more. He recruited few more supporting staff to serve more customers. He started offering home deliveries. Eventually he got himself a bigger and better stove. As his business was growing, his son, who had recently graduated from College, joined him.
Then something strange happened. The son asked, “Dad, aren’t you aware of the great recession that is coming our way?” The father replied, “No, but tell me about it.” The son said, “The international situation is terrible. The domestic situation is even worse. We should be prepared for the coming bad times” The man thought that since his son had been to college, read the papers, listened to the radio and watching TV, he ought to know and his advice should not be taken lightly. So the next day onwards, the father cut down the his raw material order and buns, took down the colorful signboard, removed all the special schemes he was offering to the customers and was no longer as enthusiastic. He reduced his staff strength by giving layoffs.Very soon, fewer and fewer people bothered to stop at his hotdog stand. And his sales started coming down rapidly, same as the profit. The father said to his son, “Son, you were right. We are in the middle of a recession and crisis. I am glad you warned me ahead of time.”
Moral: Don’t have children 😉
Apparently her problem stems from the fact that they have (present tense since they still have these in action) these “dumb” (her word, swear) policies in place. She explains “for e.g. according to our unspoken (surprisingly all the ‘dumb’ policies are always unspoken and never documented), but strictly followed policies if a peon and I joined around the same time, in exactly three years he would overtake my CTC by 9.75% and in five years the gap would grow to 23.87%”. “Additionally,” she continued, “nobody is even ready to consider the alphabet C forget C-H-A-N-G-E, every suggestion that I have given till date was shot down by that ass saying ‘but we have never done that before‘. I am convinced that he is a virgin and would probably remain that for his entire life, I mean every time he repeats the ‘never done that‘ mantra with a tenacity that makes me wonder if I am committing the original sin.”
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