Contents ( 212)
- PENGUIN BOOKS DORK
- Contents
- 1. DISCOVERY
- Under the Sink
- AUTHOR’S NOTE
- 2. DUFRESNE
- Robin ‘Einstein’ Varghese’s Diary
- 2 April 2006
- 4 p.m.
- ROBIN WERE GEESE—WIMWI
- 3 April 2006
- 3 a.m.
- 11 a.m.
- 2 p.m.
- 6 p.m.
- 7 p.m.
- 10 p.m.
- 5 April 2006
- 11 a.m.
- 2 p.m.
- 5 p.m.
- 7 p.m.
- 6 April 2006
- 11 a.m.
- 3 p.m.
- 7 p.m.
- 10 p.m.
- 11.24 p.m.
- 9 April 2006
- 10.23 a.m.
- 7 p.m.
- 10.55 p.m.
- 11.26 p.m.
- 10 April 2006
- 8 a.m.
- 11 April 2006
- 11.13 a.m.
- 12.15 p.m.
- 4.20 p.m.
- 6 p.m.
- 15 May 2006
- 8 p.m.
- 11.23 p.m.
- 16 May 2006
- 7 p.m.
- 12.34 a.m.
- 17 May 2006
- 7.45 a.m.
- 7.53 a.m.
- 6.15 p.m.
- 7 p.m.
- 8 p.m.
- 8.15 p.m.
- 9 p.m.
- 9.43 p.m.
- 18 May 2006
- 10.10 p.m.
- 10.34 p.m.
- 20 May 2006
- 9.46 p.m.
- 21 May 2006
- 7 p.m.
- 22 May 2006
- 10.15 p.m.
- 23 May 2006
- 7 p.m.
- 24 May 2006
- 8 p.m.
- 11 p.m.
- 11.23 p.m.
- 11.25 p.m.
- 25 May 2006
- 2 p.m.
- 7.43 p.m.
- 8.13 p.m.
- 9 p.m.
- 9.32 p.m.
- 26 May 2006
- 8.30 p.m.
- 27 May 2006
- 7.23 p.m.
- 9.15 p.m.
- 28 May 2006
- 6.45 p.m.
- 29 May 2006
- 11 p.m.
- 4 June 2006
- 7.15 p.m.
- 9.20 p.m.
- 5 June 2006
- 7.13 p.m.
- 3. PANCHATANTRA
- 11 August 2006
- 11.23 p.m.
- 3 a.m.
- 3.32 a.m.
- 4.20 a.m.
- 12 August 2006
- 9.20 p.m.
- 13 August 2006
- 8.25 a.m.
- 18 August 2006
- 8.50 p.m.
- 24 August 2006
- 11.12 p.m.
- ANALYSIS
- PRESENTATION
- CLIENT RELATIONSHIP
- LEADERSHIP
- SUSTAINABLE PROJECT EXECUTION AND DIVERSIFIABILITY
- OVERALL
- 26 August 2006
- 7.38 p.m.
- 11.45 p.m.
- 27 August 2006
- 8.30 p.m.
- 28 August 2006
- 9.10 p.m.
- 11 p.m.
- 11.20 p.m.
- 3 September 2006
- 7 p.m.
- 4 September 2006
- 8.07 p.m.
- 10.20 p.m.
- 5 September 2006
- 11.09 p.m.
- 8 September 2006
- 1.02 a.m.
- 11 September 2006
- 8.02 p.m.
- 13 September 2006
- 2.16 a.m.
- 14 September 2006
- 10.35 p.m.
- 17 September 2006
- 12.14 a.m.
- 19 September 2006
- 11.15 a.m.
- 30 September 2006
- 10.30 p.m.
- 11.02 p.m.
- 4. EOQ
- 12 November 2006
- 8.20 p.m.
- 13 November 2006
- 10.23 p.m.
- 12.15 a.m.
- 14 November 2006
- 11.23 p.m.
- 12.30 a.m.
- 15 November 2006
- 8 p.m.
- 16 November 2006
- 7.40 p.m.
- 9 p.m.
- 17 November 2006
- 8.22 p.m.
- 20 November 2006
- 7.56 p.m.
- 10.20 p.m.
- 1 a.m.
- 22 November 2006
- 9.13 p.m.
- 26 November 2006
- 10.12 p.m.
- 12.05 a.m.
- 1.23 a.m.
- 27 November 2006
- 11.23 p.m.
- 12.15 a.m.
- 28 November 2006
- 9.36 p.m.
- 11.20 p.m.
- 29 November 2006
- 8.32 p.m.
- 30 November 2006
- 10.03 p.m.
- 5. ASSOCIATE???
- 11 December 2006
- 7.20 p.m.
- 13 December 2006
- 2.20 a.m.
- 15 December 2006
- 10.10 p.m.
- 20 December 2006
- 11.23 p.m.
- 22 December 2006
- 9.03 p.m.
- 24 December 2006
- 11.23 p.m.
- 3 January 2007
- 8.43 p.m.
- 4 January 2007
- 10.03 p.m.
- 3.40 a.m.
- 6 January 2007
- 2.23 a.m.
- 4.15 a.m.
- 8 a.m.
- 9.14 p.m.
- 7 January 2007
- 8.15 a.m.
- 2.23 p.m.
- 10.23 p.m.
- 8 January 2007
- 11.54 p.m.
- 10 January 2007
- 11.07 p.m.
- 11 January 2007
- 12.35 a.m.
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Tomorrow Gouri wants to go out for a movie. And Megha wants to catch a play at Prithvi after work. I still haven’t made up my mind. I don’t know what to do. Megha is a guest after all.
But the choice is simple, really.
After all Megha IS the love of my life. GOURI! I mean Gouri. GOURI is the love of my life …
Okay, I need to go to the loo again.
15 December 2006
10.10 p.m.
Around lunchtime today, we got an email from Jerry that was full of garbled text. Nobody could make head or tail of it. The font looked like Wingdings. Apparently there was some problem in the mail server. Jerry immediately called up the IT guys and gave them an awful firing.
Poor fellows had to spend four hours working in the server room—they even skipped lunch—before things were restored to normal. Jerry then resent his email. Tragically, it turned out, his email stated that due to their poor performance, the entire IT department was being asked to quit by the end of the week. Anandakumari is to take over all responsibilities for IT till further notice.
The IT guys were completely pissed off. Even though they were being offered three months’ salary as compensation. What the heck is wrong with them? When one of the IT guys came to me, almost in tears, I suddenly remembered that they hadn’t finished putting together the corporate film. I reasoned with the fellow that such moments of crisis were inevitable when one worked in support services like IT, which are just cost centres, instead of core functions like management consulting which actually made the company money.
Rather than make a pointless scene, I told him to finish editing our movie quickly and nicely and to leave the company on a good note. He left, looking quite motivated by my little talk, and told me he would do a job that I would never forget.
People skills, Diary. You either have them or you don’t.
Meanwhile more good news for the JHA team. Prasad told us that the extension project is definitely going to be ours and that it was up to Dufresne to LOSE it when we present to JHA day after tomorrow. We all got to work immediately. The private equity guys wanted to see profiles of all the team members before the meeting and I spent a couple of hours updating my résumé.
Vineet spent all day in the conference room talking to the Bangkok office. Apparently they wanted to interview him again before confirming the promotion. Jenson, meanwhile, has added Vineet’s ass to the list of posteriors he licks on a daily basis.
Sometimes the number of embarrassing incompetents I work with surprises me. Wonder if things are as bad at the other firms. Perhaps I should take my talent somewhere else. I’ve already added an associate at BCG as a friend on Orkut. I must go some place where really good people get promoted instead of psycho BlackBerry babies.