7 Habits of Highly Effective Idiots

This is not a satiric article, but a real look at the world around. I've seen a lot of flowery articles and books on all the greatness and positive karma floating around the world. But rarely have I seen any commentary on the scum floating around. Its time to fix this deficit with this article on the 7 Habits of Highly Effective Idiots!

#1 - They are in a position of authority:

Idiots are all around us. But the ones that cause most consternation are the ones that you cannot ignore because they are in a position of authority over us. Their actions have a direct impact on our lives. Eg. parents, elder siblngs, teachers, bosses, politicians.

#2 - They think of themselves as inspirational people

They would think of themselves as inspirational ideologues and would give long-winded lectures to people who out of politeness or deference to the idiot's authority indulge them. (Think school principal!)

#3 - They overestimate their duplicity

Idiots would lie, fudge and mislead others, but are completely oblivious to the fact that the other party is on to their game. Two words to parents : Santa Claus Your kids really do lose respect when they find out.

#4 - "Know it all"

This kind of idiots would butt into any conversation and pretend that they know exactly what is going on and would try to lead the conversation forward through some inane comments that would make no sense to anyone around

#5 - Do not listen

When everybody around them is warning them about the foolhardiness of their actions, they would not pay heed and when they finally do face the consequences of their idiocy, they would blame the very same people who have been warning them.

#6 - Those who get married on reality TV

Married to Rakhi Sawant, Rahul Mahajan...seriously? But I rate this as effective idiocy, 'coz of the TRP ratings. Tells you how much of an epidemic idiocy is in our society or a lack of real entertainment in other channels that people have to watch this!

#7 - Low level of self-awareness

A highly effective idiot, would go through all above 6 points, laugh his/her gut out at other perceived idiots that they might know, but not for a moment realizing or reflecting on his/her own standing there.

Phas Gaya Re Obama - The smart hindi movie

2010 has been a year when I felt that the quality of mainstream movies went up a few notches. There were several movies like Ishqiya, Love Sex Aur Dhoka, Peepli Live that explored different ways of story telling or telling stories that haven't been told before.

In this context, Phas Gaya Re Obama was a movie that simply blew me away by the sheer depth of the script and the twisted irony, that is life, it salutes.

The way in which the unfolding script mirrors the events that led to the collapse of the housing market in the US was pure genius. Any lay person would understand the absurd chain of events that the story line captures. But when you think that its same degree of absurdity that was one of the principle causes of the current recession, it does make you wonder, wtf! And when u think that recession is what Obama is caught in, you go all the more wtf at the ironic name of the movie!

Anyways the intent of this short post is to tell you that 1) I loved this movie 2) Go watch it.

HR Manager in Leading IT Company Lynched for Disrespecting Rajnikanth Dot

In a shocking incident of blasphemy and its gory aftermath, an HR manager was brutally assaulted by a mob of employees in Bangalore’s famous, Electronic City. Giving details of the incident, Chella Devaiah, Superintendant of Police, E-City said, “The group of employees barged into the cabin of this HR manager and beat him black and blue for alleged disrespect to Rajnikanth. They then paraded him across the campus to set an example to other people who might insult Rajnikanth”

After hearing of this incident, Bangalore bus conductors union issued a statement extolling the Godliness of Rajnikanth and promised free bus travel to all the members of the employee mob. All they need to do is produce an FIR of the case filed against them. They also invited Rajnikanth to be a guest Bus Conductor on the 351 /356 Vajra bus service route to attract more passengers and boost employee morale, which has been devastated by i-pod carrying passengers who do not listen to the Sandalwood music diligently played by the bus drivers.

We spoke to some employees of this company who were able to give a cogent version of events. Apparently an employee, marked a mail to the HR Head asking for a salary hike, claiming Rajnikanth had said so. The HR Head replied, saying that, “ Salary hikes are given basis Company performance and quantum of hike depends of the individual performance. Rajnikanth has never and will not play a role in the salary hikes we give.” This response quickly went viral and was forwarded to all employees in the company. A section of the employees were enraged by the flagrant disregard shown by this HR Head to Rajnikanth’s omnipresence and his wish. Another group of employees were slighted by the HR Head not bothering to cross check with Rajnikanth before his response. But a bulk of the employees however were just pissed off that there was no direct answer to the question in the mail.

A mob soon gathered at the cafeteria and decided to teach the HR Head a lesson. But since she was a lady and Thalaivar has clear rules of engagement when it comes to dealing with women, that involves lot of respect giving, a compromise was reached to thrash the HR Manager who reported to her. Thus the mob barged into his room and took out their ire on him. When reports last came in, the HR Manager was recovering from this incident and claimed to be a fan of Rajnikanth himself and was serving the last week of his notice period with the company DOT