Employee Control sees new Depth!!!

I have always wondered whether this would stop at an extreme point on the scale from 1 to 10; but always find that Employee Control redefines the 10th limit each time, to push it further into the 11th, 12th and 13th degree of absolutism and insanity. The only thing that could be said here is ... "GET A LIFE, you freaking controller of lives"!!!





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Is playable Pac-Man getting Google's home page banned?

The Wolf of Environment amongst the flock of Unemployed Sheep assisted by Artificial Intelligence ...

Run the local newspaper wala out of his livelihood, cashiers jobless, bill payment haats closed, so we now see how the New Year will evolve with such resolve !!!

New Year equation:

Value Added Services + I.A. = Unemployment



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Save trees, Save Environment great message by idea mobile

'Environment' is Idea Cellular's next big idea

A hand that leaves the plough for the pen never returns to holding the plough ...

A hand that holds the pen moveth to the gun and sword easily than it may, though an impossibility, take to the plough ...




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Whither Rural India?

Indian agriculture is in deep trouble

Surging food prices reinforce tightening view

Our Rise is How We Fall ...

If we're one of the living, we got to walk a thousand miles ... but if we keep on exploiting, we shall not survive more than a while ...

Sustainable development is the only way forward, but India seems to be the last to even coming closer to realizing that. All it realizes is commonwealth games and cutting more trees!!! Sadly so, the economy too failed to collapse just as all other failures, be it tiger preservation, rain forest preservation, Delhi Ridge preservation, sunderbans preservation, coral reef and coastal preservation, river eco-system preservation, and the list goes on ... We do however preserve poverty, unemployment, corrupt systems, inflation, diesel car sales, and the like ...

Choice is ours, to rise towards and leap out to our doom!!!


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CO2 emissions can be stabilized only with collapse of economy

Ordinary world ...

Our Independence is valuable to us as is our survival. M.K. Gandhi showed that India needed to survive the British and fight fiercely for the survival of the nation as one. We should not now leave the path of struggle when we are free to do what we can; not to turn away from our duties as a nation, especially those that concern our survival.

When will we as a nation stand up to the real issues concerning us? One look at the innumerable news channels on cable TV is conclusive of the fact that Shah Rukh Khan is more important to us than expensive and unaffordable insurance premiums, health care, drought, vanishing ground water, and what not!!! But the government aims only at hiking tax of individuals and not corporates. Where would we go if we cannot afford to live? We all need alternate sources of fuel/energy, health care, and above all employment rights that are being denied to us by planned government efforts.

I fail to understand why in such a poor country like India the Prime Minister is not nailing the real issues, when a richer country like the USA; their President can put up a fierce fight against corporates for each individual's basic necessities.

We are an ordinary people with ordinary needs. We need to survive before we can aim for luxury. Affordability of necessities should be addressed first ...







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Obama invokes late grandmother in health crusade

Obama attacks insurance premiums

NASA says Groundwater vanishing in North India

Draft code may make individuals pay more tax

Drought woes claim lives of 20 farmers in Andhra

Drying out

Shah Rukh may have been victim of random selection parameter

Divesting wrong assets!!!

An age old question again needs to be re-looked at. Why should the government only divest its stake in profitable government ventures and leave out Air India type of loss making establishments.



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Air India seeks employees' help in 'fight for survival'

Air India asks senior staff to forego July pay to cut costs

CIL disinvestment likely by end of 2009-10: Coal Minister

Govt looking at proposal to divest 10% in BHEL

Wind out of the Willows ...

Lack of political will to increase employment is evident from the latest Hyundai decision to move production to Europe!!! Probably the government wants more unemployed so as to tap the voter pool for future political prospects.




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Hyundai may shift i20 production base

Death of the Street Fighting Man ...

Only a few from the private sector remain organized only to be put down by the masters they serve. Is there no hope for the slaving workers, does no political party have their interest in mind, or do we not care for ourselves and be organized on a larger scale? I think the answer to all these questions should be in the affirmative.





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Striking Hyundai employees arrested in Chennai

Disguised Retrenchment: New Industrial Disease

About 3,500 Airport workers have been gradually transferred out of Mumbai and Delhi airports to other places after the private consortium GMR took over the operations and management in 2006.

I have been following this disguised retrenchment since a month now and am amazed to see very little or no media coverage on the issue. Possibly it is not as deserving as the IPLs and General Elections (especially the snappy irrelevant chat between L.K. Advani and Rahul Gandhi, neither of them addressing the real issues of this country) that forsake this country!!!



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Government should begin talks with AAI employees: Yechury

Airport staff calls off nationwide strike

AAI employees defers nation-wide agitation

The Expendables!!!

Labor rights and employee welfare seem to have lost all meaning. These are terms of a now Jurassic era when they meant PF, retirement benefits and performance incentives. Now these terms are synonymous with retention of productive employees, enhanced training, retraining and multiple evaluations. Somewhere it has become more structured and efficient like the computers we work on; elsewhere it has lost that human touch. Is that all there is to business? Has it no heart and life but is merely a monolith? Are we just tomatoes in a packaged tomato soup factory?

Welcome to the time of the "Live & Let Die"!!!




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India Satyam has 10 percent extra staff says chairman: report

`Cisco could announce 10% layoffs'

After the Layoff, Infosys Extends Training Period

The Irony of the "best" !!!

Being the best should also account for best in human interest and relations, or have I got it all up-side-down!!!



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Infosys fires two thousand employees

Infosys ranked top IT infrastructure; may sack 2100 employees news

Infosys postpones campus hiring from sixth to eighth semester

Heads they win, tails you lose!!!

They shall however put you on a performance improvement course and give you a chance to improve before asking you to leave!!! OR should they not tell you the truth and just ask you to leave right away. Oh No!!! that would be oppressive rather than being correct Human Resourcefully ... eh!



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Infosys fires 2100

2100 Infosys employees face axe

Infosys ranked top IT infrastructure; may sack 2100 employees news

The fault is in ourselves ...

Lack of political will based upon and fueled by corporate selfish interest, holds back R&D and exploration of non-polluting sustainable unconventional sources of energy and prevents them from becoming conventional, in these dire times, demanding cure for this ailing planet. After all ...

"Men at some time are masters of their fates:
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings."

-- Cassius, Julius Cæsar (I, ii, 140-141)

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KG gas to save 10% oil bill at peak

RIL surges 4% on gas output from KG basin

Thankless freeloaders ...

"There's one in every family, Sire ... actually two in mine" says Zazu (The Lion King, 1994). But its all galore in our economies, be it US or Indian. One refuses to reduce credit rates, others give bonuses. One could never do enough to please these Dalal Street / Wall St. Idiots!!! Neither their employees nor the government!!!


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Cabinet Secy to meet bankers in April for easing credit

Govt says interest rates must come down

SEBI gone EXOTIC!!!

SEBI = Speculative Endeavors Broadening Initiative



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Now, exotic derivatives in the works

Second straw ...

Harder times push for harder crime zeal and the aspirations to become richer faster. Offshoring required just this additional jolt to shake the western faith in Indian credibility. As it is we have no data security law. And now this, immediately after U.S. protectionism, this seems the apt follow up on the road to doom!!!



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Credit card fraudster confronted

Credit card details on sale in India: Report

Indian call centre credit card 'scam' exposed

Geographical Indications: A dead end for cheap, fake, predatory dumping?

At least GI products, especially food GIs can not be faked and dumped. They have to be bought from the real producer!!! eh!

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India may soon get Chinese nod for basmati exports

Make your pick: AIG Nero or Marie-Therese AIG!!!

& this happens each day in India and no one regulates, least of all even mentions it in the news!!!! Satyam is the mere tip of the iceberg. So complacent are we regarding our "plenty" that it would soon become scarce.


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Obama angered by AIG bonuses

AIG Faces Rising Tide of Public Anger Over Bonuses

The world is not enough? ... or is it?

I say it is more than enough. What have we actually done for this earth that we now aim to head elsewhere at astronomical expenditures that could well be used for earth's betterment environmentally as well as socially. Otis - Gandhi belongings auction has shown this shameless dichotomy of thought and actions as no other event in history has ever spat in the face of so called torch bearers of progress. Governments are ready to spend crores of their currency on procuring what symbolizes progress and honor but actually is nothing more than vanity and in vain.

Gandhi would not have approved of such high price purchase of his belongings by the country he lived and died for when we see blatant socio-economic deprivation on the other side of the story. It is ANTI-GANDHIAN to purchase his belongings at an auction even by the richest Indian, the belongings of a man who lived simply and without wealth in a country that still is poor, no matter what its GDP or rate of growth is.

On the other hand NASA thinks it is doing good by spending trillions while US citizens suffer in the face of unemployment and burst of their economic powder-cake.

How different are we from the dark ages when Kings and Temples/Churches amassed wealth while the poor remained static. They too were the golden ages of their times as described by those rulers. Shame on us all who think we are progressing.



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Otis offers to donate more Gandhi items

Moon not high enough: India aims for the sun

Nasa probe to seek planets supporting life

US sheds 6,51000 jobs in Feb; jobless rate touch 25-yr high

US unemployment rate hits 8.1 percent

ISRO sun mission Aditya in 2012, to cost Rs 500 million

India should still see growth at near 7%: Kamath

First straw ...

The below is just one of the measures to boost employment in the U.S. India could also do the same by proposing tax incentives for companies that indulge in R&D rather than merely support services, thus leading to actual creation of value and wealth. Technologies like fuel-cell, ocean current energy, wind energy, electric cars, infrastructure projects that harness solar energy (by building thermal and solar panels into plate glass on structures), road current differential technology (harnessing electricity from roads run on by vehicles), etc. could be the new age employment generators, besides making the earth a cleaner and safer place to live.



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No tax cuts for outsourcing: Obama

Obama disappoints Indian inc.