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Make your apples taboo to keep them

It is a known fact that many of the employers face a challenge to keep the talented workforce with them and control the attrition, especially during the times of the company's disability to reward their employees as per the industry standards. Today I would like to share and idea while i was surfing online and talking to friends from different organizations. I gained this knowledge with some constant interaction with some HRs of different companies on social networking sites such as facebook, linkedin and also through a live discussion with them. The first thing you should do is during their annual review identify those whom you think can be convinced to stay if you give them a counter offer after they got an offer letter from another company and pay them the minimal hike or rewards for that year. This is true regarding almost all the employees so if you cant identify them then assume that all can be convinced with a counter offer since people often would like to stay with a long

Best ways to check out an employee !!!

"Make sure you tell them how great they are, how great their work is but how and why you can't and don't reward them for their greatness or contribution" you can always tell a person to go out of a company if you are the boss, at-least that is how it was few years ago in almost all the companies and now that situation is still there in many companies if not not in all the organizations. Over a period of time people have realized that it is messy to tell someone to go and you don't need them anymore. It can be because of their low performance or low efficiency or they have become a luxury or a white elephant. A white elephant is someone whose is an overkill for your need. A white elephant is someone who is very good at what he or she does but also have become and expensive and luxurious commodity. If you have job that can only by done by an elephant then you can get any elephant but a white elephant is rare and super expensive and it does not make sense to hire

Plan your Flu

So now it is obvious to all of us that flu, common cold, cough, throat infection are the things which are inter-related and anyone of them if neglected will bring the others along with it and you can't prevent them but yes you can avoid them. I have had flu twice in this last 6 weeks and both of the times it started off with a throat infection. I have seen that throat infection initiates cold>running>nose>blocked nose>fever+cough. Since there is no immediate cure for these I will be ready the next time it comes and I want you to know successful plan to combat it and damn I am gonna defeat it from now on. It is better to take medicine as your food than take medicine after you get sick. So, take honey everyday. Ancient well to do Hindus used honey as a sweetener in their food and jaggery was used by those who couldnt afford to use honey everyday in everything. Honey in ayurveda playes a very important role in medicine where almost medicine is suggested to be taken wit

Blame yourself not your Boss

I more often see hear people blaming their bosses for their low pay, current position, present grade and the hike that they got. Some are even mature to blame the system or the company for this. I on the other hand blame none but instead praise the bosses for it whole heartedly and I even defend them. Let us look at Ganesh Garage Inc., and the owner has two mechanics. One of them repairs the cars properly and keep them nice and clean so that the customer and the owner are happy. The 2nd one also does the same but he also makes sure that he tunes the cars to get the maximum mileage out of them. It is clear that the owner and the customers will love the mechanic who makes their car give more mileage that the 1st mechanic who just does his job. The 2nd mechanic increase the efficiency by increasing the mileage. Now, re-imagine the same with your bosses as the mechanics, cars as the employees and the owner as the investors and shareholders. If you were an investor/shareholder then don

What future holds for us

Who would have thought that there would be HD video, self driving cars and wi fi ? well some people predicted it with quite certainty and many like me just wished for it. I may not ray kurzweil in this matter but i do think the future is interesting in terms of technology and it will keep getting interesting and of course more messy. 1. By 2050 we may not be needing any input output devices like keyboard, mouse, touchscreen or touch pads. Your thoughts are enough to type, search or do any task on your computer which you normally do with your I/O devices. It also means that you will have to mask yourself from TTs or Thought Tress-passers who will try to steal your thought and try to read your mind without your knowledge and try to know your secrets. This will also lead to a new type of mind-hacking where hackers will try to gain access to your personal and financial details over the web with the help of some social hacking. Companies like google who search keywords from your emails

The myth surrounding the working and non working women

Recently I read an article by a popular indian writer named chetan bhagat on times of india . I would like to agree with all of his points on how a working women is better than a homemaker. he makes some really good points for today's men to consider a working women as their choice while i think he displays a narrowed mind with a side opposite to the men that he is addressing and i think both are equally wrong. The view and definition of a working women of today's western minded and western educated ideology is very wrong and misleading when it is applied to an indian women. A typical indian women works atleast twice as much as a stereotypical working man who goes out and does a desk job or something similar to that. A mother for example use to start working from morning 4am to 11pm and sometimes till 1am with an allowance of 2 or 3 breads a meal with some chilli powder + edible oil everyday. She use to work for handlooms in the day time and do tailoring at night to earn s

How to set an album cover in your google+ or picasa albums

Whenever i uploaded pictures in an album i never had an option to change the album cover. Even if you try to edit the album or its settings it doesnt give you that option. The organize option of the google+ gives the option to organize the photos in the first page but not all the pictures of the album. The only way you can do this is by uploading via google picasa application installed in your computer. You have to first drag the pictures around and arrange the in an order that you want and keep the picture that you want as the album cover in the beginning of this order and then click on share on google+. You can initiate this by right clicking on a bunch of pictures that you have selected and then click on add to album>new album and publish it as an album in picasa and then click on share on google+.

HOW TO MAKE SYMBOLS WITH KEYBOARD

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The use of pubic (and armpit) hair

This article was a tough one to write  for me since i did not want any of my friends to false accuse and tease of me of having what i describe here for the safety of the next-gen but i think the thought of helping some people to avoid a life long health maintenance and fear of an outbreak is worth that simple tease by few. The other day i was wondering why haven't we had any major technological innovation or invention for trimming our body hair. It is the same age old procedure but now it runs on battery. I wish there was just an oil or laser treatment which can permanently do away with the unwanted hair and women would have had their one time eye brow or upperlip hair removal process and it would have been so easy on their husband's pocket. I often use to wonder, what is the purpose of pubic hair and most of the websites (medical) claim that it is just an evolutionary process and they dont have any particular purpose. They say Pheromones get trapped in the pubic hair and it

Why did Shiva cut his own son's head

Gajasua (an asura or demon who has taken the form of gaja or elephant) when started misuing the boons of shiva to cause harm to the world shiva takes his head off but gajasura being a staunch devotee of shiva asks one last favor to be remembered forever and stay near him all the time. Shiva thus removes him from the cycle of birth and death. Here in kailash parvathi has created a boy named vinayak who was standing outside as a guard when shiva's wife parvathi is bathing and when shiva tries to get inside vinayak prevents him. Shiva was also cursed by one of his own devoted rishis to be responsible for his own son's demise and shiva himself has given the rishi the power to curse anyone and thus by not fullfulling his curse he wouldnt want to go back on his word. So shiva cuts vinayak's head and replaces it with the gajasura's elephant head. source: http://www.harekrsna.com/philosophy/associates/demons/siva/gajasura.htm

RAM NAVAMI - The Birth Anniversary of Ram [January 10, 5114 BC]

According to Ramayana 1.18.8,9 Rama was born on the 'Navami Tithi' of 'Shukla Paksha' of ' Chaitra Masa' (9th day of the increasing phase of the moon in the loonar month of 'Chaitra' ). At the time the naxatra was 'Punarvasu' and Sun, Mars, Saturn, Jupitar and Venus were in Aries, Capricorn, Libra, Cancer and Pisces respectively. Lagna was cancer and Jupiter and moon were shining together. [and many say this repeats every 10,000 years] So the conditions summarized are as follows Valmiki has recorded in Bal Kaand Sarga 19 and shloka 8 and 9 (1/18/8,9) that Shri Ram was born on the ninth tithi of Chaitra month when the position of different planets vis-a-vis zodiac constellations and nakshatras (visible stars) was as under :- 1 Sun in Aries ii) Saturn in Libra iii) Jupiter in Cancer iv) Venus in Pisces v) Mars in Capricorn vi) Lunar month of Chaitra vii) Ninth day after no moon viii) Lagna

"Obama Experiment" Results in Professor Failing the Entire Economics Class ??!!

copied from : http://www.reboilroom.com/2012/01/obama-experiment-results-in-professor.html An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before, but had recently failed an entire class. That class had insisted that Obama's socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.   The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on Obama's plan". All grades will be averaged and everyone will receive the same grade so no one will fail and no one will receive an A.... (substituting grades for dollars - something closer to home and more readily understood by all). After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard deci

Kidney Stones and homeopathy !?

Why is it a sin to pay beggars in india ?

 There is a small house which is being constructed right in front of the 1bhk where i am staying as a tenant. The construction workers are paid 500Rs/day as on 5/2/2013. These workers work from 9am to 1pm and then from 2pm to 5pm or 6pm. So that is 8 to 9 hours. This money is untaxed of course and they earn about 15,000 INR a month. My neighbor is an MBA graduate and his rent is almost the same as mine and he pays around 7.5k per month as rent and his pay per month is 12k to 14k as on 5/2/2013 and he pays taxes. Let us consider another indian who too earns money by threatening to show off his genitals if you don't give him or her, your money. Meet 'lalbagh' the pride garden of bengaluru. Here you can find some cross dressers and transsexuals who will approach the couples who are sitting cozily in a park and ask for money. If you do not pay they just lift their saree and skirt and expose their unshaved genitals and fearing this the guy will pay the ransom, otherwise you wi

SelfKill of government sectors in india

Government knows that government sectors are a burden to the government and may not be a good idea for progress in india. Unlike private sectors government sectors like BSNL (Bharath Sanchar Nigam Limited), BEML and HAL etc., have the responsibility to satisfy all religions, castes and subcastes when they are hiring employees for their sector based on reservation quota set by government. They also have to pay pension to the retired employee. Many of the sectors also provide houses for stay till you are employed like HTM, HAL etc., Today if an employee of HTM has to rent the house that has been offered for free to him by the govt. sector then it would cost him more than his salary in a town like bengaluru. There is a saying in India which goes somewhat like this 'govt. job is like a god's job, only god should come and do it'. Govt. sector employees are known to be rude especially 10 years ago where there were no private banks, the bank employees use to behave with you as if

Beware with online shops like flipkart and its rigged reviews.

Apart from online shopping being eco-friendly and a whole lot beneficial it has some cons too. literally!!!. Today I was checking out some organic soaps and accidentally noticed a strange thing. Some soaps from some company called soulflower are all rated 5 stars and mostly by some users repeatedly on the same day. Well if it was amazon then i would have thought for a second and felt that, well may be the promoters of this product are trying to con buyers with rigged reviews  by writing review about their own product but it is flipkart where not anyone can create an account and sell like ebay, amazon etc., but you create an account to buy. Flipakart is its own seller where it partners with vendors to sell products thus it becomes equally responsible for what it sells. It's about the reviewer named shilpa bindhish http://www.flipkart.com/user-profiles/shilpa.bindlish-7775 http://www.flipkart.com/user-profiles/kavitarameshya-8747 probably another hired re

Why do we keep going back to get hurt

Have you ever wondered why someone keeps getting cheated by the same person, keeps getting hurt by the same people but still they go back to them even after swearing never to go back to those who make them miserable?! It is natural in humans to want to be accepted. If you like someone and they do not feel the same for you and sometimes even they hurt you but you might still go back to them. I do not know what is the psychological term to define it but this condition is there in all in varied quantity. Suma (imaginary names) is a girl who is in college now and excited to meet new friends who are in the same dorm or same class. There are some cool class mates with whom she would like to be around. Those classmates are sometime mean to others and they are sometimes mean to her too, probably because she doesnt have a tatto as them, she doesnt have a cool boyfriend with a sportsbike or may be because of her economic status but this girl after few days of deciding not to go back to the