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When we walk into a theatre to watch a 'A' certified movie, kids below the age of 18 years are not allowed. Reason : They are not matured enough to be exposed to sexual / violent content. But, recently as i was reading through newspaper i happened to read an article with talked about SEX and also with some obscene pictures. Cinema is a one time exposure, but newspapers are daily source and therefore, kids accessibility to such content is easy. Moreover, in a digital era this accessibility is becoming more and more easy. Summary : All am trying to convey through this blog, is requesting the newspaper media to get more responsible and avoid such content in newspaper.  

When you browse for " Annual Performance Review ", you might get many articles on how to prepare and conduct Annual performance review. But rare on what to do ' after ' your performance review.   Even though am a person with an ideology of performance reviews to be part of day-day activities and not an annual event, but since many companies still believe and carry out as their employee evaluation am trying to pin down some things to do ' AFTER ' performance review.   So here are some of tips, hope they are useful to you :  1. Your evaluation is already done. Its a formality.  If your company is still following the bell curve, please be aware that your Manager has already decided on your rating and your discussion with him / her is a formality. With a sizeable team, Manager is forced to rate his employees into 20% Top, 70% general and remaining 10% as bottom. Therefore, your rating is already done and shared.  This practice is talking of majorit

You have been advertising various companies for FREE !! Really ? Yes !! It was recently when we were shopping at a known shopping mall in Bangalore. Since what am saying is a common practice, I wish not to name the shop. Getting back to incident. After picking all we needed, we reached the billing counter. It was around 2,300/- with many items. After the billing, the person at the counter asked if I wanted a carry bag. Since I had purchased a few items which were unplanned I realised I needed an extra bag and so I asked for one more carry bag. The person added another 10/- to the bill and handed me the carry bag with logo of brand printed all over the bag. I paid the extra amount along with bill and I further roamed around streets of Jayanagar for few hours with the carry bags.                       Pic Credit : DynaCorp As I was driving back home, I realised that I had done some free advertising of brand in streets of Jayanagar having paid 10/-. Usually isn't it th