Selective Amnesia There was a point to this. But I forgot.

Dilip, Shivam – my apologies

My apologies – to Shivam Vij, Dilip D’Souza and any others whom I have slighted in the past. I am sorry to have fought stupid battles with you on the blog and off. I am sorry I called you names. I am sorry that I had fun at your causes and your issues. Recently, I realised something. Something that made me see that being what you all are – bleeding hearts – requires a great deal of hard work, and a special something I lack.

A personal example. I was talking to an NGO type girl a few months back. She was so violently against the expressway on Old Mahabalipuram Road – her logic being

• There will be a traffic jam on Madhya Kailash junction.


• The people who use that road are working for American and other multinational projects, are therefore being paid obscene amounts of money and this will somehow cause an invisible drain on the economy.

Of course, telling her that the extra money would filter down into the economy, that the traffic bottle-neck wouldn’t probably happen because those who work for the IT companies on OMR will end up buying a house in the residential apartments and localities that will come up on the road (and they have, even as I speak, and they will) convinced her.

Then it struck me, these people – the NGO girl, my good friend Shivam, Dilip, P. Sainath – they are rare gems of humanity. I realised that it’s hard work being a bleeding heart. It’s hard work always looking at the negative. It’s hard work to think that everything will go wrong. And praying it does, just to gratify your ego. It takes a rare kind of person to always look at the gloomier side of things. It’s hard work being one of the very few people who look at a glass half full of water and complaining about the missing half. It’s not easy to constantly wallow in pity, cry when the situation demands you take heart things are better.

English. As she’s murdered

So, I get this mail from a HR firm, asking me to apply for a sales job. I think I will be of better use to them in the e-mail despatch department. Here’s the mail, no changes, no exaggerations.

From: thesuncorp@yahoo.co.in < thesuncorp@yahoo.co.in>
Date: Oct 10, 2006 1:35 PM
Subject: interview date has scheduled with aviva
To:

AVIVA

We have an opening with our client Aviva Life Insurance company (MNC) which is worlds seventh largest Insurance company with a brand name Aviva.Aviva is an UK based accompany & is a joint collaboration with Dabur (Indias leading FMCG company).It is an Fortune company.They are looking for Sales Manager based at (Thrissure/banglore / Chennai )

Candidate Profile: Candidate should be a graduate with minimum 4-10 years of sales experience in any FMCG/CD/Pharma/Banking/Insurance etc. Candidate should have a good exposure ( i.e. at least 3 years of experience in banglore /Chennai )is required and
(and minimum 1 year experience for the post based at thrissure /cochin)
Job Profile:

1) Recruiting the Financial Advisors.
2) Motivating them, Training them and getting the Insurance Policies.
3) Setting sales target for team members (FA’s) and ensuring delivery of the same.
4) Planning! and forecasting business.
5) To manage Financial Advisors comprising of 30 – 40.
6) Building Relations with influential people and motivate them to become an Financial Advisor.
7) At the same time you will be meeting some Corporate level clients and getting the Insurance policies.
To maintain good relationship and achieve customer satisfaction.

Incase if you are interested in the above Job kindly send your updated CV mentioning your current salary and expected salary (must). For further details you can even refer the website i.e. www.avivaindia.com. Requirement is very urgent. You can also call me to discuss further or confirm your accept! ance. Interview will be conducted on this week and Requi! rement i s very urgent.

If u already received mail kindly ignore this
Regards,
RADHIKA.

THE SUNTECH CORP (MANPOWER CONSULTANTS)
, 2ND FLOOR, GUPTA NILAYAM,
OPP, DECCAN CLUB, 10-2-195, EAST MAREDPALLY,
SECUNDERABAD-26 TEL: 040-39182060/3050/3131

Mallus: Go on strike. They spelt Thrissur wrong.
Digs (and Bangalore-ians): They didn’t capitalise the name of your capital city. Go on a bandh, burn up shops and sing old Rajkumar songs.
Tams: They didn’t do anything to enrage you. Go on a fast, invoke the spirits of your forefathers and hold public meetings where you will speak with fiery rhetoric and achieve nothing at all.
Gults: Why are you silent? Here’s a tam (me) who’s making fun of people from your state. Do something, anything. Join Microsoft by the 1000s and rewrite the dictionary and spell-check module on Word

[Disclaimer: Not intended to make fun of Aviva, really.]