Haridwar Patri Market - Some Photographs

Here are some photographs from a recent family trip to Haridwar.

These capture the miscellaneous wares that one can find being sold in the Patri market in Haridwar close to the Har Ki Puri.

 

Yamunotri and Gangotri - Some Photographs

Here are some photographs from a recent family trip to Yamunotri and Gangotri.

These capture the snow-capped and other mountains and landscape that is so very unique to this part of India.

What Should You Expect From Your Spouse?

In a nutshell, what you should expect are just three simple things:

Love and affection 

Your spouse should really love you and have deep affection for you.

This would show you are important for your spouse.

Lack of this would mean:

• She would neither get physically intimate with you not reciprocate appropriately to your efforts to get physically intimate with her.
• She would resist and trivialize any display of love and affection.

Care and concern

Your spouse should care for you and should have lot of concern for your well-being.

This would show you really matter for your spouse.

Lack of this would mean:

• She would not bother to call you and check whether you are getting food properly and regarding your well being when you are away to another city, for short or long period.
• She is not at all concerned with your physical and mental needs but only about the needs of others.

Bonding and Understanding

Your spouse should have close bonding and good understanding with you,

This would show you and your spouse live like life partners and not room mates.

Lack of this mean:

• She has her own agenda and your priorities and expectations are immaterial to her.
• She is only interested in things that are important for her needs, and for her it is only she and there is no we

A Promotion Should Be A Promotion But Sometimes It Is Not

A promotion is a feel-good factor if nothing more or nothing else.

Sometimes, however, a promotion is only a feel-good factor.

In that case a promotion is not a promotion, in a true sense.

A promotion should be a promotion but may not be in certain cases.

So when is a promotion not a promotion?

First and foremost, what is a promotion?

A promotion is an event whereby someone is moved up to a higher level in rank or in position.

And there's a big catch here.

The higher level rank or position is assumed to have the following:

• Higher authority and power in matters of importance
• Higher level of responsibilities and accountability for the desired outcome
• Larger span of control and oversight

In many cases, however, the higher level or position would not translate into the above three and even if it does, it would not be effectively the case in reality.

A promotion in such cases yields into a higher position for the concerned individual but nothing really changes on the ground.

In the above case a promotion is not a promotion.

So there are situations when a promotion which should be a promotion is actually not.

The Funny Act of Salary Increments

Some organizations operate like a play unfolding on the stage where different acts get enacted, one scene after another.

The funniest act in the play is the one that concerns salary increments.

In some organizations, especially the small-sized ones, the salary increment process runs in parallel to and often in complete oblivion to the performance management process.

In such regressive organizations increments have to do more, and at times, only with loyalty to the top pig and number of years with the company.

Performance and contribution not only take a backseat in these organizations but many a times are actually thrown off the car itself!

The junior pigs discuss among themselves as to how the bounties of business would be distributed and shared.

The junior pig looking after human resources in the most inhumane manner is the cunningest and wickedest of them all.

He is a master manipulator who puts up the facade of fairness and transparency.

He is highly protective of his turf and guards it like a bloody dog.

He looks a like a straight-forward and nice guy but is a complete crook at the heart.

His process of determining base increment is fraught with mysteries and complete lack of transparency.

In the name of progressive approach he puts in a performance and compensation system that is opaque at the best and scandalous at the worst.

Increments are given on a basis that has no rhyme or reason.

The other junior pigs saunter in and our of his room.

Why saunter?

Its a family owned, regressive enterprise after all and everything is fixed.

The delivery junior pig doesn't say anything on any issue pertaining to the human resources junior pig.

After they are in the same party.

When the lights turn off, they are one and the same.

Both are stooges of the top pig.

In such organizations, certain junior pigs are asked to oversee areas they know nothing of and about.

The junior pigs are trusted pigs of the top pig.

The whole problem is with the top pig.

He has put in place a sick culture where loyalty rules.

And where pigs not only survive but thrive.

Pigs are abominable.

Junior pigs makes things worse.

If you are surrounded by junior pigs then you are in for interesting times.

You can never tell, but maybe you have a junior pig next door.

 A junior pig will always be that - a junior pig!

You got to be careful if you need to handle any.