Freeriders!!!

Ok before we go into details let me define what free rider means in B-school terminology, technically speaking, ok sorry, managerially speaking free rider is an economic term where people consume their share of resources without sharing its burden of cost. let me give an example to make it more clear, actually now a days i am getting most of my Class Participation points by giving examples so better stick to what is working, so the example goes like this, Its duty of government to provide defence to every citizen, but free rider may refuse to pay for this, and he will have same defense from the state as well as for those who pay for it!!

Now lets come to real definition, free rider is a person who refuse to contribute in group assignments and have his share of grades as received by his groups, in other words free rider is a perfect managerial material. Their is clear difference of opinion in my batch regarding me being a free rider or not. My batchmates thinks i am a freerider, i think i am not, so you can see its 50-50 for both sides.

When i go to group meetings it happens like this
Group 5 section A People - Kullu yeh blah blah assignment hai, tu itna late kyun aaya
Me - Theek hai chalo assignment kar lo!
Group 5 section A People - Tu assignment karega

Me- (to the people comeing after me) - yeh blah blah assignment hai, tu itna late kyun aaya/aayi
Group 5 section A People - Tu assignment karega

Me - har baar toh main karta hoon!!! pichle 4 assignment maine kiye hain, we are not doing any favour to anyone, why does we always have to show others that we are doing their work, can't we give collective efforts, off late our grades are getting a hit
Group 5 section A People - Tu assignment karega

Me - Ok, I and ...... will do it.

Night before assignment submission
me in gtalk
Me - Hooda thr??
Hooda - yup
Me - yaar yeh assignment mujhse nahin hoga!!
Hooda - kyun
Me - Yaar bahut thak gaya hoon, neend aa rahi hai, aaj tu kar de, plz!!
Hooda - Get it from seniors
Me -(seniors se mil raha hota toh thakaa thode hota!!!!) seniors ke paas nahin hai
Hooda - Net pe search kar
Me- (net pe mila hota toh neend thode aa rahi hoti!!!) net pe nahin mil raha!!
Hooda - Emma ko bol de!!

Me - Emma thr??
Emma - yup
Me - yeh assignment nahin hoga mujhse!!
Emma - aaj Manchester United ka match hai, main nahin karoonga
Me - abey woh toh kal bhi tha
Emma - Manchester united is playing matches everyday!
Me - wth...saale kaisa free rider hai tu!!
Emma - KK ko bol

Me -KK thr??
KK - don't ask me to do the assignment!!

Next day in the class - submission time
Hooda, Emma and KK cordinates among themeselves to complete the assignment.

Thats what management is all about, using your human resource to get them do what they never wanted to do, to make them realize that organization's goal could never be achieved without their help, and when it comes for next assignment you can always claim that it was you, who had completed the previous assignment

PS - All characters in this post are fictitious (including me!!!), any resemblence to any person living or dead is purely coincidental.

PPS - This is no way related to the real functioning of group 5 section A PGP1 of IIM Indore.

PPPS - I hope profs never ever come near to this blog.

20 th november!!!

Flash Back year 1985-1990

When i was kid, i really use to look forward to this day. People use to gift me some tiffin boxes ful of eclairs and ludo wrapped in colorful paper making it look like something interesting. Although i hated those neighbours of mine who use to eat chole poori at our house without bringing any colorful wrappers, i dreaded those who use to bring ludo and chess, and in my brother's birthday when we got 5 different types of chess boards i decided to take matters into my hands, so on 20th november 1988 i assigned all the potential chole poori eaters, one gift item to be submitted before laying hands on any of the plates or spoons of our house,this resulted in big time thrashing of mine by my mom later on and still after doing so much when those buggers gave me three set of business game (where you use to buy kanpur,bombay, railways and defence only to mortage them to your brother later on to get yourself out of the jail!!!) i understood the frivolity of assigning these people the gifts to be delivered and level of their IQ.

Present day 22-11-2006

Anyways since the last 6 years (don't know weather this should be called coincidence or not!) its happening that which ever person has impacted me most during the year is always into loggerhead with me during this day, somehow the conditions always become so, that during this time their is atleast one person of opposite sex exist in the world who is not in the talking terms with me and my whole celebration depends on wishes from that person, and the good thing is that i always get wished by them through unconventional means.(Unconventional here means that getting wished by person not residing in your city through SMS instead of a Phone call at 12 in midnight and through mail instead of shake of hand by the person residing in same city)
Another thing to be noted here is that, every year these are different people, does that give you some sort of idea?? ok leave that.

Flash Back - 20-11-2005

One more thing other then being in logger head with a particlar person which irritates me on my birthday is my achievements in my past whatever years of life, 20-11-2005 was also not different except cat 2005 was also scheduled for that day. i left my home praying to god to give me that thing which i require so much to prove it to myself that i am not that worthless (5th level of maslow??) what happens after that? is anybody's guess.

Present day 22-11-2006

One of the reason to not publicise my birthday here, is to see whether the person who is into brawl with me, remembers my birthday or not? ( call it anything you like!!!) but since they do remember me, guess i can do away with this practice!!!

Here I move on!!! again??

Their are some problems with having a blog, first if you don't update it people feel you have stopped blogging, the second problem is more acute, everything, every person, every event is a blog material and at the end of the day you simply wonder what to write about??

Some interesting things did happen in last months, got my summers , we had IRIS, (the details about them would be posted in future blogs), an important person came back for a day and left again.

Now looking back over the last month i realize that when you feel that an important part of life is missing from it you tend to become restless and that mounts to your frustration and that happens simply because you dont have the clue what could be its substitute

The case in point would be that from class 1-5 the most interesting thing i use to do was to play in A.K.B's home, then grew up a little and we moved to another house where my favorite pass time was to spend most of my time with my neighbourhood girl!!! (come on yaar i was only 11 that time) then we moved to another house and then most interesting thing for me became having long conversations with girls of my class!!! moved into college and found plethora of new people around me, they first became friends and then family and then college life ended, got the job and found new ways of having fun, catting and movies became favorite pass time, one year onto my job and first time i manage to get what i desire so much(leaving the job!!!)

The thing is that at all these points if someone would have taken these things away from me i would have clearly felt something amiss and would have easily given my arms and legs to retain them but looking back at them i realize that their is nothing great about any of them and i kept on leaving one for the other and thats human nature is all about, no matter what you achieve, no matter what you have, the search for happiness continues, you leave things of the past, enjoy the present and look for the future and future is so uncertain that we don't let go the present not realizing that future may be brighter. some incidents of last month were simillar to these but now after realizing how frivolous everything was, its giving me more energy and I am bubbling again with the enthusiasm i am known for!!!

abruptly ending this post!!! (most of the things in life have abrupt ending than having slow death)