While the Birlas are on a buying spree to secure raw material for their coal based business and the Tatas too are focussing on such inorganic growth in these uncertain times, if I compare this to my beloved Reliance, it is not doing anything to secure crude oil supply. Infact, other than the shale gas source acquisition in the US, RIL has not even contemplated any major global acquisition. So, on comparison, it seems in that Mr. Kumar Mangalam is focussing more on the future as compared to Mr. Ambani. However, we cannot ignore Ambani uncle coz he is currently focussing on pertochemical consolidation which is not much told in the news. (Inside info hai :P).
Talking about comparison, I am really annoyed when people, specially relatives compare me and my parents with other cousins - specially those staying in Mumbai.
Sometime back, an elderly person of my family asked me about my salary and my profession and stuff so that they can put up this info in the shaadi market. It was fine till then but later on things became more annoying when I eavesdropped. It became like the 'Daadi' sa sort of thing from 'Balika Vadhu' where they started comparing me and my job with those of other eligible cousins. They had the following issues with me:
1. I come home early as compared to all others which suggested that I am not much ambitious kind and do not work hard enough.
2. I am in the profession of chemicals which is not considered very highly as a profession in Finance and allied services.
3. I work at Saki Naka which is considered to be a down market place as compared to places on the Western line like Churchgate, Charni road.
4. I am from Sangli and even though I have spent quite a lot of my youth days in Mumbai, I love Sangli more than Mumbai. This might prove to be a big issue to find a possible prospective girl for me.
5. I avoid boarding in crowded trains and buses as far as possible,not a very talkative person nor seem an interesting person when compared to others or similar aged boys.
Yeh comparison na, is really irritating. First it was about the kind of job and salary comparison with peers and now this. Dont know when people will stop comparison.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Saki-Naka
Most of the people who have a fair amount of knolwedge about Mumbai should know about this area for sure. It is a place in Andheri East - One of the most dreaded places for driving any vehicle. A place where, no matter what time it is, the traffic is always slow moving if not standstill :P. It is one of the few commercial places in Mumbai which is far away from any local railway station, thereby connected only by road & BEST buses, making it a tough place to commute to everyday.
Especially, from Andheri station to SakiNaka is one of the most tiring journeys. No matter what you travel in - a bus, a bike, auto or even a car, you take around 1 hour 15 mins to reach station in the evening - the same time it takes to reach Borivali from Churchgate.
It is said by people that once you start from Andheri, we cannot guess the time to reach the place (Kaab pahuchega bata nahi sakte).
The construction of metro on the road has made the net travelling side of the road very small. At places the effective size of the road is just enough for a bus to pass through.
In the peak hours, there is a bus from Andheri station to sakinaka every 5 minutes, yet, the place being commercially important, the frequency of buses does not seem sufficient. All the buses departing the station run full capacity.
Autos generally refuse to come there and understandably so because the opportunity cost because of the time lost is just too much. He can definitely earn far more in the same time on a different route.
Add to all these things, the unpredictable Mumbai rains, water logging and increase in construction activity in the region make commuting to this place everyday a nightmare for a person who does not like too much crowd and who is from a smaller city.
Hopefully, the metro gets functional fast and ease the trafffic condition in this area. But thats atleast 1 year away. Till then toh commuters have too suffer.
But all is not bad at this place. There are quite a lot of good places around the place - like mcdonalds, urban tadka, ccd, maharaja, 5 seasons, etc where one can get good food.
It is the place where, unfortunately, my office is situated and I have to commute to this place daily. Thankfully, i have this phone with me which can be used for reading newspapers, blogs and chat. And sometimes when i have nothing to do, I sleep or sometimes i write such dumb posts :P.
Especially, from Andheri station to SakiNaka is one of the most tiring journeys. No matter what you travel in - a bus, a bike, auto or even a car, you take around 1 hour 15 mins to reach station in the evening - the same time it takes to reach Borivali from Churchgate.
It is said by people that once you start from Andheri, we cannot guess the time to reach the place (Kaab pahuchega bata nahi sakte).
The construction of metro on the road has made the net travelling side of the road very small. At places the effective size of the road is just enough for a bus to pass through.
In the peak hours, there is a bus from Andheri station to sakinaka every 5 minutes, yet, the place being commercially important, the frequency of buses does not seem sufficient. All the buses departing the station run full capacity.
Autos generally refuse to come there and understandably so because the opportunity cost because of the time lost is just too much. He can definitely earn far more in the same time on a different route.
Add to all these things, the unpredictable Mumbai rains, water logging and increase in construction activity in the region make commuting to this place everyday a nightmare for a person who does not like too much crowd and who is from a smaller city.
Hopefully, the metro gets functional fast and ease the trafffic condition in this area. But thats atleast 1 year away. Till then toh commuters have too suffer.
But all is not bad at this place. There are quite a lot of good places around the place - like mcdonalds, urban tadka, ccd, maharaja, 5 seasons, etc where one can get good food.
It is the place where, unfortunately, my office is situated and I have to commute to this place daily. Thankfully, i have this phone with me which can be used for reading newspapers, blogs and chat. And sometimes when i have nothing to do, I sleep or sometimes i write such dumb posts :P.
Monday, June 6, 2011
Strange things at work
It is raining heavily in Mumbai and I am sitting idly at my workplace wondering about my life. I have finally joined a company of my choice finally (3 weeks ho gaye though). Still have no idea whether I took the right decision of not opting for high-profile, high paying jobs. Hopefully, everything will turn out well in the end (like most Hindi movies :P).
I found some strange things here:
1. For a company with a turn-over of around Rs. 1000 crore and over 200 employees, I found it strange for the Managing Director to call me up during the first week and ask "Kaise chal raha hai Purav ji". I had not known the names of all the products manufactured by then . (I still dont know all though :P)
2. The Managing Director has access to all the company emails of the important employees (Mine included. Can call myself important then :P) and once a week, (when I think he is bored to work), he goes through all the emails and gets hard copies of important mails during the week and sends the copies to the people to whom the email is addressed to. Strange.
3. He is completely obsessed over growth. Everytime I see him he gives me names of 4-5 chemicals and asks me to get the market information for them, which I find too tough to do. But feels nice to know that I will be involved in formulating the future strategy of the company.
4. I believe I have been given too much of a free hand at work - access to all internet sites (including facebook), a printer and lots of time to think over while collecting data. Strangely, no one minds here if I do a bit of facebooking and other tp like blog reading etc. In fact, I am advised to read blogs of people related to chemical fields as a part of RSS feed in Microsoft Outlook.
While I have been introduced to the people at the top like VP marketing, Director Finance, I have had almost no interaction with their colleagues and as such I have had no idea about what people, in general, feel about the company and bosses. I guess, insteaad of writing this blog, I need to speak to them now. :P
I found some strange things here:
1. For a company with a turn-over of around Rs. 1000 crore and over 200 employees, I found it strange for the Managing Director to call me up during the first week and ask "Kaise chal raha hai Purav ji". I had not known the names of all the products manufactured by then . (I still dont know all though :P)
2. The Managing Director has access to all the company emails of the important employees (Mine included. Can call myself important then :P) and once a week, (when I think he is bored to work), he goes through all the emails and gets hard copies of important mails during the week and sends the copies to the people to whom the email is addressed to. Strange.
3. He is completely obsessed over growth. Everytime I see him he gives me names of 4-5 chemicals and asks me to get the market information for them, which I find too tough to do. But feels nice to know that I will be involved in formulating the future strategy of the company.
4. I believe I have been given too much of a free hand at work - access to all internet sites (including facebook), a printer and lots of time to think over while collecting data. Strangely, no one minds here if I do a bit of facebooking and other tp like blog reading etc. In fact, I am advised to read blogs of people related to chemical fields as a part of RSS feed in Microsoft Outlook.
While I have been introduced to the people at the top like VP marketing, Director Finance, I have had almost no interaction with their colleagues and as such I have had no idea about what people, in general, feel about the company and bosses. I guess, insteaad of writing this blog, I need to speak to them now. :P
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