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  1. PENGUIN BOOKS DORK
  2. Contents
  3. 1. DISCOVERY
  4. Under the Sink
  5. AUTHOR’S NOTE
  6. 2. DUFRESNE
  7. Robin ‘Einstein’ Varghese’s Diary
  8. 2 April 2006
  9. 4 p.m.
  10. ROBIN WERE GEESE—WIMWI
  11. 3 April 2006
  12. 3 a.m.
  13. 11 a.m.
  14. 2 p.m.
  15. 6 p.m.
  16. 7 p.m.
  17. 10 p.m.
  18. 5 April 2006
  19. 11 a.m.
  20. 2 p.m.
  21. 5 p.m.
  22. 7 p.m.
  23. 6 April 2006
  24. 11 a.m.
  25. 3 p.m.
  26. 7 p.m.
  27. 10 p.m.
  28. 11.24 p.m.
  29. 9 April 2006
  30. 10.23 a.m.
  31. 7 p.m.
  32. 10.55 p.m.
  33. 11.26 p.m.
  34. 10 April 2006
  35. 8 a.m.
  36. 11 April 2006
  37. 11.13 a.m.
  38. 12.15 p.m.
  39. 4.20 p.m.
  40. 6 p.m.
  41. 15 May 2006
  42. 8 p.m.
  43. 11.23 p.m.
  44. 16 May 2006
  45. 7 p.m.
  46. 12.34 a.m.
  47. 17 May 2006
  48. 7.45 a.m.
  49. 7.53 a.m.
  50. 6.15 p.m.
  51. 7 p.m.
  52. 8 p.m.
  53. 8.15 p.m.
  54. 9 p.m.
  55. 9.43 p.m.
  56. 18 May 2006
  57. 10.10 p.m.
  58. 10.34 p.m.
  59. 20 May 2006
  60. 9.46 p.m.
  61. 21 May 2006
  62. 7 p.m.
  63. 22 May 2006
  64. 10.15 p.m.
  65. 23 May 2006
  66. 7 p.m.
  67. 24 May 2006
  68. 8 p.m.
  69. 11 p.m.
  70. 11.23 p.m.
  71. 11.25 p.m.
  72. 25 May 2006
  73. 2 p.m.
  74. 7.43 p.m.
  75. 8.13 p.m.
  76. 9 p.m.
  77. 9.32 p.m.
  78. 26 May 2006
  79. 8.30 p.m.
  80. 27 May 2006
  81. 7.23 p.m.
  82. 9.15 p.m.
  83. 28 May 2006
  84. 6.45 p.m.
  85. 29 May 2006
  86. 11 p.m.
  87. 4 June 2006
  88. 7.15 p.m.
  89. 9.20 p.m.
  90. 5 June 2006
  91. 7.13 p.m.
  92. 3. PANCHATANTRA
  93. 11 August 2006
  94. 11.23 p.m.
  95. 3 a.m.
  96. 3.32 a.m.
  97. 4.20 a.m.
  98. 12 August 2006
  99. 9.20 p.m.
  100. 13 August 2006
  101. 8.25 a.m.
  102. 18 August 2006
  103. 8.50 p.m.
  104. 24 August 2006
  105. 11.12 p.m.
  106. ANALYSIS
  107. PRESENTATION
  108. CLIENT RELATIONSHIP
  109. LEADERSHIP
  110. SUSTAINABLE PROJECT EXECUTION AND DIVERSIFIABILITY
  111. OVERALL
  112. 26 August 2006
  113. 7.38 p.m.
  114. 11.45 p.m.
  115. 27 August 2006
  116. 8.30 p.m.
  117. 28 August 2006
  118. 9.10 p.m.
  119. 11 p.m.
  120. 11.20 p.m.
  121. 3 September 2006
  122. 7 p.m.
  123. 4 September 2006
  124. 8.07 p.m.
  125. 10.20 p.m.
  126. 5 September 2006
  127. 11.09 p.m.
  128. 8 September 2006
  129. 1.02 a.m.
  130. 11 September 2006
  131. 8.02 p.m.
  132. 13 September 2006
  133. 2.16 a.m.
  134. 14 September 2006
  135. 10.35 p.m.
  136. 17 September 2006
  137. 12.14 a.m.
  138. 19 September 2006
  139. 11.15 a.m.
  140. 30 September 2006
  141. 10.30 p.m.
  142. 11.02 p.m.
  143. 4. EOQ
  144. 12 November 2006
  145. 8.20 p.m.
  146. 13 November 2006
  147. 10.23 p.m.
  148. 12.15 a.m.
  149. 14 November 2006
  150. 11.23 p.m.
  151. 12.30 a.m.
  152. 15 November 2006
  153. 8 p.m.
  154. 16 November 2006
  155. 7.40 p.m.
  156. 9 p.m.
  157. 17 November 2006
  158. 8.22 p.m.
  159. 20 November 2006
  160. 7.56 p.m.
  161. 10.20 p.m.
  162. 1 a.m.
  163. 22 November 2006
  164. 9.13 p.m.
  165. 26 November 2006
  166. 10.12 p.m.
  167. 12.05 a.m.
  168. 1.23 a.m.
  169. 27 November 2006
  170. 11.23 p.m.
  171. 12.15 a.m.
  172. 28 November 2006
  173. 9.36 p.m.
  174. 11.20 p.m.
  175. 29 November 2006
  176. 8.32 p.m.
  177. 30 November 2006
  178. 10.03 p.m.
  179. 5. ASSOCIATE???
  180. 11 December 2006
  181. 7.20 p.m.
  182. 13 December 2006
  183. 2.20 a.m.
  184. 15 December 2006
  185. 10.10 p.m.
  186. 20 December 2006
  187. 11.23 p.m.
  188. 22 December 2006
  189. 9.03 p.m.
  190. 24 December 2006
  191. 11.23 p.m.
  192. 3 January 2007
  193. 8.43 p.m.
  194. 4 January 2007
  195. 10.03 p.m.
  196. 3.40 a.m.
  197. 6 January 2007
  198. 2.23 a.m.
  199. 4.15 a.m.
  200. 8 a.m.
  201. 9.14 p.m.
  202. 7 January 2007
  203. 8.15 a.m.
  204. 2.23 p.m.
  205. 10.23 p.m.
  206. 8 January 2007
  207. 11.54 p.m.
  208. 10 January 2007
  209. 11.07 p.m.
  210. 11 January 2007
  211. 12.35 a.m.
  212. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I have deducted 0.3 from my score because I am not, technically, the team ‘leader’. Santanam is. But after Santanam I would like to think that everything really boils down to me.

SUSTAINABLE PROJECT EXECUTION
AND DIVERSIFIABILITY

Score: 4.5

Details: I am not exactly clear what this really means. I tried reading the HR handbook chapter on ‘Performance Evaluation’ but this section is missing. Instead I have two copies of the chapter on ‘Attention to Detail’. So I think it is best to give a dummy score of 4.5.

OVERALL

Score: 4.54 (approximately 4.6 or 4.7)

Remarks: Even though this is a self-evaluation I think I am doing exceptionally well for someone who’s been in the firm just three months. I have settled in quickly and made myself a valuable member of the team. I would think that I am well in the reckoning to make associate in March.

And with that I will go back to work now. Yetch found a number of mistakes in my cash flow projection that I had mailed to the client yesterday and I forgot to call them up and inform them of the error. So I have to submit a new working by tomorrow morning. I have to work at least for the next three hours.

Good night.

26 August 2006

7.38 p.m.

Exciting news! Today Preeti from corporate communications asked me to be part of a brand new internal communications workshop that is going to start next week. The first meeting is at 9.15 p.m. at the Barista on Hill Road.

Very excited! Off to shower and change. More details later.

11.45 p.m.

Nobody turned up for the meeting. I have no idea what happened. I waited at the café for two hours but nobody came. I tried calling the members of the corporate communications team but none of their phones were working.

Had too much food at Barista. Going to sleep.

Sad.

27 August 2006

8.30 p.m.

It was all a misunderstanding! And I went to office in a foul mood for nothing!

I went in today and walked past Preeti’s cubicle a few times looking unconcerned. Waiting for her to make the first move and apologize. Which she did when she noticed me as I tripped over a LAN cable and crashed into the glass panel on top of her cubicle partition wall face first.

While I sat in a chair and she sprinkled water on my face to revive me—there was a little bleeding—I casually asked her what happened to the internal communications workshop meeting.

Then she told me that there had been a change of venue but no one in the corporate communications team had a list of all the employees’ contacts. So they could not get in touch with me. But she assured me that they would inform me of all future meetings without fail. When my bleeding wouldn’t stop she tried to call for a first-aid box but none of the phones in the corporate communications department was working.