Why matter?

Thoughts from a Generation-Y

It’s 16 years now since I joined a job out of college. The first two years was doing something meaningless without me knowing it. The third…

WhymatterJan 2

What you need when you are stressed out…

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WhymatterSep 5, 2015

Instant Karma

As I was walking out of my office today evening I noticed an old colleague of mine and could not help calling out his name to ensure he was…thoroughly publicized to more than half of the corridor in less than five seconds. When I enquired what brought him to my company, he shrugged his shoulder as though he had just met the end of the world. ¶ It did not take me long to understand that he had come for an interview to the place I was working for, being driven either by the lack of any serious work left to do at my older place, or because he was cornered to be devoured as a redundant employee in the organization.

WhymatterSep 5, 2015

Inheriting Perceptions

We were a joint family. Of 18 years. Now we are nuclear. To the extent of 18 families. Affordability has gone up no doubts. Needs for…private spaces too have gone up with all the stress factors around. The split from joint family to a nuclear one haven’t all been hunky dory. This indeed was the beginning of a deadly perception based character assasination which has taken ugly turns today. If someone manages to make your life hell, and you find someone either assisting such people or directly or indirectly participating to plot against you, then you start making perceptions.

WhymatterSep 5, 2015

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WhymatterSep 5, 20152 min read

Threshold limit

Today a senior resource in a company made some unacceptable mistakes. This was the beginning of his end in the company. The life he had led, the aggression he had shown, the flamboyance he had exhibited, the money he had made — none of this could change his fate. Every company has its patience limit…

WhymatterSep 5, 20151 min read

The black hole

I spent some time today to understand how my salary was getting spent. Wait, don’t jump. I know what you are thinking. That I have done the same exercise you did a year ago, of keeping track of monthly expenditure by the day and all that. Wrong. Patience. I took my gross salary “X” and took 70% post…

WhymatterSep 5, 20152 min read

Real love

You might be feeling I have been bashing up relationships around me with this blog. Before you label me as a nonsense guy, let me tell you something interesting that happened a couple of days back. Me and mom are of the same blood. That of disagreement and holding up pole positions in a fight. We don’t give…

WhymatterSep 5, 20152 min read

Cost of instructions

We tend to give instructions to our kids. Some give less instructions, some give more, some never stop giving instructions and for some — like me — instructions have been a way of life. For the past three decades I have received instructions in everything I do. Right from brushing my teeth…

WhymatterSep 5, 20153 min read

The need for goals

I was always never concentrating on a goal. People always used to tell me to have goals and pursue them. I had so many goals. Like I should earn more money and I should buy a bigger car and perhaps a home and some travel abroad on a holiday and what not. But the more fundamental goals came to…

WhymatterSep 5, 20153 min read

Selective influence

I always wanted to write on this topic, but just got the time only now! Many a time we would have seen how people keep stressing you out at work by giving you multiple tasks and keep threatening you of dire consequences if we were unable to achieve those tasks within a definite timeframe. This…

WhymatterSep 5, 20154 min read

When religion begins to dictate life

Its one of those times again. When this thing comes and hits you. From all quarters. And makes you feel low. To your lowest ebb. Where from you cannot come up again for few hours. And if this happens on a bright cool Sunday, you can imagine how the week ahead is…

WhymatterSep 5, 20153 min read

Spambox — the new inbox!

As though someone got a whiff of my current lifestyle and where it was heading a certain Pooja and Shreya were interested in educating me on finding my special someone again (the first of which I already found in life once and have lived with for a decade).

WhymatterSep 5, 20153 min read