Sales' ails...

The first few sentences of this post may seem academic. But I request the readers to bear through the same, for what follows further is in no way related to the text book, classes or anything in between.

The troubles faced by a salesman in any business are well-known. They are much greater, though, prior to his entering a firm. There is this Post-Graduate Sales Rep (referred to as SR, henceforth) I know of, who has been hunting for a job since the last month. He was lamenting about his not having landed a successful job yet. And if you ask me as to how an MBA would know a Sales Rep, well, understand thus much that I could, and I do!

The plot set,we now move ahead and detail the troubles faced by our SR.

1) A Sales Rep being asked to wait at the 7th floor of a building may be rest assured that the 7th floor would be a recreational room with:

a. One light – So black, that it would soon collapse into itself and form a black-hole, a la a star.
b. One ceiling fan – Which would have to be tapped twice at the wing, and thrice at the regulator to get it started off.
c. Windows all over – Shut for weeks together, such that spiders could build their Sheratons around it, replete with curved staircases and what not.
d. One carrom board – So old, that no further description is warranted.
e. A lot of dust, and chairs with more of the former.

2) SR waited, till he was called on for the interview. Questions flowed.

a. He was asked if working overtime leads to ‘efficiency’ or ‘inefficiency’ in an organization. – His reply was that the word (in)efficiency should be properly placed in its context, so that the discussion would become more fruitful.
b. Next, SR had a brain-wave. The cricket fan that he was, he said: “If you give more time to bowlers to bowl through their overs, they become lax. This, I think, is a perfect example of ‘working overtime' leading to inefficiencies!”
c. SR then touched on what could be termed a mathematical wonder. He discovered that the word ‘efficiency’ was a ratio of output to input. It would increase with an increase in the output, and interestingly, the input did not matter, it seemed. SR was pretty amused with himself when he said so. One would wonder whether the smile was a pat on his own back, or a smirk at being asked something so basic. One of the above, though, was surely conveyed to the interviewer.
d. The conclusion was that “remuneration” was the reason people preferred to work overtime. Instead of answering the interviewer's question, the conclusion proved him wrong!
e. SR was done with the interview. Apart from 'overtime', SR was asked to name the 7 continents of the world, and he exceeded expectations by naming 8, including ARCTICA!

3) By the way, SR was expected to sell everything. If you wanted an indicative list, it would include (but may never be limited to) chairs, radishes, rectifiers, pens (SR would sell this outside the country too, once in a month, for two weeks) etc.

Needless to say, SR didn’t get the above job either. But the sequence of events led me to ask him about it, one final time. I asked him if he really longed for the above job. At this, his frown disappeared, and out came a cunning smile. “No, I didn’t! All absurdities uttered were aimed at my not getting it!”

People and their ways...

Happy Diwali

Everyone at their respective homes, college reopens 22nd Oct... a much deserved break especially after 4th trim and without the trim end break...not that we are studying too much or smthing but banta hai bhai!!! :)

got a mail about library being closed and noted this "Declared as deemed to be university" below NMIMS...I dont no if it was there earlier but I caught this the first time coz I always thought we were a deemed univ...must be the govt. waking upto fraud pvt univs scam effect :P

whatever it is plz let it happen next yr...had enuf of scams for our two yrs (the joint placement thingy :P)

Hope everyone is having a grt time...this trim will pass away fast, paragana coming up...but after that its enter the ring time...yes placements... :P

I guess erybody will have their eyes and ears open for any news of market revival, hiring freeze over news...which is aplenty...hope it transforms to good luck for all of us...and we can get our BMWs and greek islands asap :P :P :P :P

a very happy diwali and a prosperous new year...

God Bless us all...

Peace...

Vikas

curious case of the nose ring...

the other day something ws different about Sonika and Manhar made it a point to let everyone know about it...
so Manhar goes "hey, look at Sonika" and then calls Sonika...
but Manhar was totally disappointed when he found out that the nose ring was not real and felt cheated...

but I appreciate Sonika's smartness...getting a piercing are life altering decisions...so no matter how much care is taken it always is not enough...

having a trial period with a simple stick on piercing was a great idea...

Alas I could not think of something like this!!!!!!



PS: the case facts are highly exaggerated...but thats what makes it fun isnt it :) :) :) :)

Updates Hehehehehehehehe!!

1) Dish TV pe Soni!!!!!
2) "Jaane kyu dil jaanta hai, tu hai toh i'll be allrite". No prizes for guessing the person(s) who kept this line as their status message.
3) Charlie "impreffing" by jumping to get a ping-pong ball.........
4) Shashi Kapoor turning into Shakaal!!(Ahuja getting a haircut)
5)Gas becoming new Merrill by playing only Mafia Wars.

Plz add more to this.................

Cabinet clears setting up of 7 new IIMs

The country will soon have 7 new IIMs, of which four will start functioning from next year with the Union Cabinet on Thursday approving a HRD ministry proposal to set up these management institutes.

Looks like the effort is on to exhaust all the 26 alphabets of the english language...14 Gone,12 to go...Started with A,B,C and counting...

I think we will have a crisis at hand pretty soon when it comes to naming those institutes...Wondering if there are cities with name starting from X,Y and
Z..If not what are we gonna name the IIMs in those cities or even towns?Ranchi counts as a city?No?? Visit it once...Rohini can throw some more light on this :)

One option could be that the HRD ministry works in collaboration with the ministry of urban development where in they first develop new cities and name them
starting from the alphabet X,Y and Z...Rest of the thing should be a cake-walk..After all, it does not take much to open a new IIM.

Did somebody say infrastructure??Come on,being an NMites atleast we don't have any right to say so !So what if we don't have a dean...We are on lookout for it and have already given an advertisement in leading newspapers.The ad says that "we are looking for instituition builder"...and I thoguht that they were going to need the instituition demolisher for the old building..Anyways...

Alrite..so the problem is solved or rather it seems so..atleast for the time being.
Though 10 years down the line it might crop up again..When the letter Z is also exhausted...What will our dear HRD ministry do then?

Come on ..that's not such a big issue...IIM AX series is still up for grab where X will have 26 values again...After all HRD ministry is not that dumb.

So all those people who worried about the quality of education in our country...You got a reason to smile :)

Running out of time now...Will be bak again...

Cheers
Jaybind

Good one!!!!

A nice attempt...see all the years of experience shows... :P

You said can blog anything!!!! :P :P
m not much of a blogger that title can go to Nishant and Faadu....

Nishant who began a movement against the bhangra club but was later diluted by many other wannabes...and faadu well his late night once a trim blogs are a joy to read...

so requesting those guys to contribute here as well...

Last Few Months!!

Hi All

I believe we have only a few months more to go before we stop studying for good. No offense to the FIN ppl as they would possibly be studying for a long time to come.

Lets just try to enjoy these days by just posting out whatever u feel like over here. i think, 6 months down the line, we would be longing to meet each other....Article 377 notwithstanding.....

Post whatever you like. Just keep them coming. Invite more ppl of Div D. Lets blog......