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  • Womanising,Dating in Office, Lesson

     

    Womanising has been rechristened as ‘Dating’..

     

    By the way why is it Girls use this term often than Boys?

     

    (before you jump the gun, this is my personal view)

     

    I was working as a Salesman ,fresh from the College.

     

    We were launching a new range of product.

     

    (I shall recount my selling experiences later).

     

    My Sales Manager was about 35, and a Drunk.He normally carried a bottle oor two in his coat pocket!

     

    But he was an exceptionally Good sales person and a Good man , barring his drinking.

     

    Whatever I am to day- he is one of the major influences.

     

    We had in our Organisation Sales Supervisors, all aged around 40-50.

     

    I had a Supervisor.

     

    We also had a girl doing the Typing,Accounting and Reception Desk(?)

     

    She was from s poor family and was reasonably good-looking.

     

    One day when all of us were in the office(sans The Sales Manger,he was in his Cabin) this Supervisor  told her…

     

    ‘I have two tickets for evening show at the Shanthi Theatre( at Chennai which was owned by the Actor Sivaji Ganesan then and it was a prestigious issue to visit this theatre after Safire and Anand and Midlands theatre”)

     

    I am going to the market and I will come pick you up by 5.30.’

     

    And he went off without waiting for a reply.

     

    After sometime,after all the others had left, the girl went inside the Manger’s cabin and came back after about ten minutes informing me that the Sales Manger wanted to see me.

    He told me ‘ you go to the market and come to Office by about 4.30. I want you to be here.”

     

    I went about my work and was in the Office by about 4.30 and was sitting in the hall.

     

    By 5 pm , the Supervisor came and went into the Sales Manger’s room to submit his report.

     

    Immediately, I was called in.

     

    The sales manager said..

     

    You call her, I want you to see some thing’

     

    The girl came into the room and the sales Manager asked her to sit in the chair.

     

    Then he went to the Supervisor ‘flashing out two tickets and said..

     

    ‘I have two tickets for the night show.

     

    Send your daughter with me to the film’

     

    The supervisor was shocked(he had a daughter of about 15 years)…

     

    ‘You may be my Sales Manager, you can’t talk that way to me about my daughter’

     

    “I see, how can you talk this way to the girl”

    Ramanan, now watch’- he removed his shoes and slapped the Supervisor and told him..

     

    ‘If I ever see you behaving this way in this office or for that matter in Public, I do not what I will do, now get out’

    and turning to me..

     

    ‘This you never forget in your life. I want you to know some values and  to teach this rogue  by humiliating in front of a small boy like  you and went about his routine business.

     

    That the Supervisor apologised to the girl and worked in the organisation, with impeccable behaviour is another story.

    Note.For my Readers from the West-dating was frowned upon and treated with severe punishment then(early eighties in India.

    I have a suspicion that even now some parents who seem to have values follow this)

     

  • Ok,Swear at The Boss, Australia!

    This is Australia.

    Swearing at the Boss
    Swear at The Boss

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    FAIR Work Australia has ordered the reinstatement of an employee who was sacked for telling his boss to “get f … ed”.

    Security guard Craig Symes was sacked from Linfox Armaguard last year after he told his manager to get f … ed, complained about the “f … ing roster” and then aggressively poked a notice board – all while carrying a loaded gun.

    Symes, who had worked with the Brisbane firm since 2000, cracked during a monthly meeting last December after having a fight with his wife before work. “He was frustrated with his wife and, in hindsight, should not have come (to the meeting),” FWA heard.

    He abused manager Aryn Hala after being assigned to a faulty armoured van and stormed out.

    Symes later apologised in writing but was sacked the next day.

    FWA ruled Symes’ behaviour amounted to misconduct but found his dismissal was harsh.

    While finding swearing at a person was “of a different character” to swearing at an object, or as an adjective, FWA Commissioner Helen Cargill said it was “also relevant to consider the evidence that the respondent’s workplace is one in which bad language is commonly used and in which … employees may have received mixed messages about such use”.

    She said the swearing was not “overheard by other employees which could have undermined Mr Halas’ authority”.

    Ms Cargill ordered the company reinstate Symes with back pay – less six weeks pay as a penalty.

    http://www.perthnow.com.au/business/its-ok-to-swear-at-the-boss-says-fair-work-australia/story-e6frg2qc-1226395059005

  • Depression as Deadly as Smoking, Study Finds

    Depression and anxiety can be tackled only by the individual concerned.Medicines and counseling can go only thus far.What is needed is understanding of some facts.
    Out of desire comes attachment,from attachment expectations,expectations lead to lead to frustration,it leads to depression.
    We have had many desires during our life time.If we sit down and ponder what was interesting and pleasurable at one point of time , no longer excites us, at times repugnant right now..The things we desired for retain their nature then and now.Then why we do not get the same pleasure out of it?Reason is that pleasure does not lie in things per se.They are our attitudes towards them. When the attitude changes, the whole picture changes.Therefore accept things in life as they are and not attach value to it.Do not carry it forward for our attitude may change and we may even be unhappy about the the things we liked.This is the truth.
    Anxiety arises when we feel what we have done or achieved is not enough or things do not happen the way we want them to happen.If we are sure we have done our best, that is it.We can do no more.Accept your limitations.Do not set your goals too high.Remember,whatever you achieve is naught when you depart.
    Things happen, controlled by various factors ,us being only a factor and not THE factor.As said earlier do your best and leave it at that.
    Another reason for depression and anxiety is comparisons .No two things in the world are identical ;at best they are similar.Never try to be other than what you are.You too have a function and a purpose in the scheme of the Universe.
    These are few tips to beat anxiety and depression

    ScienceDaily (Nov. 18, 2009) — A study by researchers at the University of Bergen, Norway, and the Institute of Psychiatry (IoP) at King’s College London has found that depression is as much of a risk factor for mortality as smoking.

    Utilising a unique link between a survey of over 60,000 people and a comprehensive mortality database, the researchers found that over the four years following the survey, the mortality risk was increased to a similar extent in people who were depressed as in people who were smokers.
    Dr Robert Stewart, who led the research team at the IoP, explains the possible reasons that may underlie these surprising findings: ‘Unlike smoking, we don’t know how causal the association with depression is but it does suggest that more attention should be paid to this link because the association persisted after adjusting for many other factors.’
    The study also shows that patients with depression face an overall increased risk of mortality, while a combination of depression and anxiety in patients lowers mortality compared with depression alone. Dr Stewart explains: ‘One of the main messages from this research is that ‘a little anxiety may be good for you’.
    ‘It appears that we’re talking about two risk groups here. People with very high levels of anxiety symptoms may be naturally more vulnerable due to stress, for example through the effects stress has on cardiovascular outcomes. On the other hand, people who score very low on anxiety measures, i.e. those who deny any symptoms at all, may be people who also tend not to seek help for physical conditions, or they may be people who tend to take risks. This would explain the higher mortality.’
    In terms of the relationship between mortality and anxiety with depression as a risk factor, the research suggests that help-seeking behaviour may explain the pattern of outcomes. People with depression may not seek help or may fail to receive help when they do seek it, whereas the opposite may be true for people with anxiety.
    Dr Stewart comments: ‘It would certainly not surprise me at all to find that doctors are less likely to investigate physical symptoms in people with depression because they think that depression is the explanation, but may be more likely to investigate if someone is anxious because they think it will reassure them. These are conjectures but they would fit with the data.’
    The researchers point out that the results should be considered in conjunction with other evidence suggesting a variety of adverse physical health outcomes and poor health associated with mental disorders such as depression and psychotic disorders.
    In light of the findings, Dr Stewart makes suggestions on the focus of future developments in the treatment of depression and anxiety: ‘The physical health of people with current or previous mental disorder needs a lot more attention than it gets at the moment.
    ‘This applies to primary care, secondary mental health care and general hospital care in the sense that there should be more active screening for physical disorders and risk factors, such as blood pressure, cholesterol, adverse diet, smoking, lack of exercise, in people with mental disorders. This should be done in addition to more active treatment of disorders when present, and more effective general health promotion
    http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091117094933.htm

  • Angry young men risk heart attacks.BBC

    Please read this along with my piece on’Stifling anger at work can kill-Reuters.’ filed under Health and draw your conclusions.

    Story:
    A bad temper can lead to a risk of premature heart attack, scientists claim.
    Their comments are based on findings that young men who quickly react to stress with anger are three times more likely to develop heart disease.

    Research shows these men were five times more likely than their calmer counterparts to have an early heart attack, even without a family history of the condition.

    Some expressed their anger, others were able to conceal it, while many became irritable or engaged in “gripe sessions”.

    The most important thing angry young men can do is get professional help to manage their tempers

    Dr Patricia Chang, who co-ordinated the US-based research, said: “In this study, hot tempers predicted disease long before other traditional risk factors like diabetes and hypertension became apparent.

    “The most important thing angry young men can do is get professional help to manage their tempers, especially since previous studies have shown that those who already have heart disease get better with anger management.”
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/1939094.stm