Analysis of Affairs at work place ! -- Changing dynamics !

A recent brokeout in TOI (Times of India) " Cupid roles played by Indian ITes" made me to ponder over such a contentious issue. India's ever dynamic demographics which provides cushion to Indian corporates and reason why MNCs are looking towards India (apart from other factors), have given indian teenagers with immense earning opportunities, the kind of income which earlier generation had only dreamt about is happening in India.

But apart from such a major generations shift, now the most happening places in India, the corporate galleria's new role as cupid makes your brain cells move 360*. With ever increasing work load and major portion of time spent in offices drinking coffees, discussion over every issue as sensitive as "SEX", late night parties and many more have added to ever growing phenomenon of "Affairs at Work Place".

These stress relieving activities over a period of time turning out to be waste of "Productive Man Power", a major resource in Knowledge economy. Frequent visits to cafetarias (sooner or later to be named as "Love Nest") just adds more to this pain of efficiency loss. As things become personal the loss in productivity becomes proportional. Probably if you apply "The square law of computation" such activities increase the computation time as the most important commodities "Time & Efforts" get diverted to other places, a frequent gyration in such nacent relationships leads to more pain (Recent breakouts of murder of call center gals by their supposed to be boyfriends supports my view).

But such affairs keeps workplaces alive, giving anoher reason for employees to cherish, results in loyalty if such relationships keeps alive hence lesser pain to HR (the only people in company who comes at 9:00 Am and leave at 6:00 Pm).

So may be soon you might find a "Mandap" in your offices and a permanent "Priest" chanting mantras all the time and may be a couple of lawyers to carry forward "Divorce" activities, well that means "Fun at Work Place! "

Cost of beer and tax system !

Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and
the bill for all ten comes to $100.

If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it
would go something like this:

The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
The fifth would pay $1.
The sixth would pay $3.
The seventh would pay $7.
The eighth would pay $12.
The ninth would pay $18.
The tenth man (the richest) would pay $59.

So, that's what they decided to do.

The ten men drank in the bar every day and seemed
quite happy with the arrangement, until on day, the
owner bowled them an outswing. "Since you are all such
good customers," he said, "I'm going to reduce the
cost of your daily beer by $20."Drinks for the ten now
cost just $80.

The group still wanted to pay their bill the way we
pay our taxes so the first four men were unaffected.
They would still drink for free. But what about the
other six men - the paying customers? How could they
divide the $20 windfall so that everyone would get his
'fair share?' They realized that $20 divided by six is
$3.33. But if they subtracted that from everybody's
share, then the fifth man and the sixth man would each
end up being paid to drink his beer. So, the bar owner
suggested that it would be fair to reduce each man's
bill by roughly the same amount, and he proceeded to
work out the amounts each should pay.

And so:

The fifth man, like the first four, now paid nothing
(100% savings).

The sixth now paid $2 instead of $3 (33%savings).

The seventh now pay $5 instead of $7 (28%savings).

The eighth now paid $9 instead of $12 (25% savings).

The ninth now paid $14 instead of $18 (22% savings).

The tenth now paid $49 instead of $59 (16% savings).

Each of the six was better off than before. And the
first four continued to drink for free. But once
outside the restaurant, the men began to compare their
savings.

"I only got a dollar out of the $20," declared the
sixth man. He pointed to the tenth man," but he got
$10!"

"Yeah, that's right," exclaimed the fifth man. "I
only saved a dollar, too. It's unfair that he got TEN
times more than I!"

"That's true!!" shouted the seventh man. "Why should
he get $10 back when I got only two? The wealthy get
all the breaks!"

"Wait a minute," yelled the first four men in unison.
"We didn't get anything at all. The system exploits
the poor!"

The nine men surrounded the tenth and beat him up.

The next night the tenth man didn't show up for
drinks, so the nine sat down and had beers without
him. But when it came time to pay the bill, they
discovered something important. They didn't have
enough money between all of them for even half of the
bill!

And that, boys and girls, journalists and college
professors, is how our tax system works. The people
who pay the highest taxes get the most benefit from a
tax reduction. Tax them too much, attack them for
being wealthy, and they just may not show up anymore.
In fact, they might start drinking overseas where the
atmosphere is somewhat friendlier.