Friday, October 30, 2009

Management Lesson I

 Once three politicians Ram, Shyam and Gyan were traveling in an auto rickshaw. They met with an accident and all three of them died. Yama was waiting for this moment at the doorstep of death. He asks Ram and Shyam to go to HEAVEN. But, for Gyan, Yama had already decided that he should be sent to HELL. Gyan is not at all happy with this decision. He asks Yama as to why this discrimination is being made.

All the three of them had served the public. Similarly, all took bribes, all misused public positions, etc. Then why the differential treatment? He felt that there should be a formal test or an objective evaluation before a decision is made; and should not be just based on opinion or preconceived notions. Yama agrees to this and asks all the three of them to appear or English test.

Ram is asked to spell "INDIA" and he does it correctly. Shyam is asked to spell "ENGLAND" and he too passes. It is Gyan's turn and he is asked to spell "CZECHOSLOVAKIA". Gyan protests that he doesn't now English.

He says this is not fair and that he was given a tough question and thus forced to fail with false intent. Yama then agrees to conduct a written test in Hindi (to give another chance assuming that Gyan should at least feel that Hindi would provide an equal platform for three).

Ram is asked to write "KUTTA BOLA BHOW BHOW". He writes it easily And passes. Shyam is asked to write "BILLY BOLI MYAUN MYAUN". He too
passes. Gyan is asked to write "BANDAR BOLA GURRRRRR....."Tough one. He Fails again. Gyan is extremely unhappy.

Having been a student of history (which the other two weren't), he now requested for all the 3 to be subjected to a test in history Yama says OK but this would be the last chance and that he would not take any more tests.

Ram is asked: "When did India get Independence?". He replied "1947" and passed. Shyam is asked "How many people Died during the independence struggle?". He gets nervous. Yama asked him to choose from 3 options: 100,000 or 200,000 or 300,000. Shyam catches it and says 200,000 and passes.

It's Gyan's turn now. Yama asks him to give the Name and Address of each of the 200,000 who died in the struggle. Gyan accepts defeat and agrees to go to HELL.

Management Lesson: "IF YOUR MANAGEMENT HAS DECIDED TO SCREW YOU, THERE IS NO ESCAPE