Creative Rides

1 ) Microsoft — Has projects till 2050.

2 ) EDS — Most secure company in India. Not laid off any of its

employees even during 2001. Has lots of projects in Defense and

financial areas.

3 ) HP — Dream Company. In-house & outsourced projects.

4 ) Infosys — Dream Job. On a way to achieve the status of a secured,

stable Govt. company.

5 ) AOL, Google and Yahoo - Best companies to work with, great job

satisfaction as well as great salary and work environment. Rarely fires

an employee. As they are internet based companies’ they offer lots of

opportunities to grow.

6 ) HCL — A good company to be in called as a “retirement company.”

7 ) Aricent— a communication based software company, has never fired

any employee and gives great perks & incentives, lot of projects in

kitty. Minimal level of attrition.

8 ) KPIT Cumminns Infosystems Limited —- This is the most secure

company not known to many. It has presently acquired CG Smith, Bangalore

and has lots of projects in pipe line. Acquisitions plans will continue.

 

Hi, you must be the new trainee. No no, don’t get up. Let me just get my headset on here. (PUTS ON HEADSET) I’ll be showing you the ropes around here. It’s a tough gig, the Internet help desk. I mean, I figure, in our society you’ve got your four major lines of defense: police, fire, ambulance, Internet help desk. Air Traffic Controllers think they have the most stressful job, ha. But, I’ll tell you, nothing gets you jazzed on an adrenaline buzz like helping someone configure their ADSL preferences correctly even though their running a 386 with windows 3.1 and 6 megs of RAM. Oh, just a second. (TO HEADPHONE) Internet help desk, thank you for calling, one of our technical analysts will be with you shortly, please hold? (TO KID) OK, so that’s the first lesson. (INDICATES MUTE SWITCH) The Hold button. That’s your best friend. It’s your panic button, your savior, your teddy bear and your Mommy’s teat all rolled into one. Always put them on hold, right off the bat. Show’s ‘em who’s boss. Takes some of the fight out of them. (TO PHONE) Your call is important to us, please continue to hold. (TO KID) Which is important, because when they can’t figure out what their mouse is or they confuse the CD ROM for a drink holder, and they start to realize what an idiot they are, they are going to be venting on you. But don’t worry. I’ll have you up to speed in no time. I’m an old pro, I’m a vet. I’ve been here 8 months, which, in Internet Time is about 25 years. I’m Jordy Laforge, and you’re Wesley Crusher. I’m C3P0, and you’re R2D2. But don’t go thinking you’re R2D2, kiddo. You ain’t no R2D2… yet. (TO PHONE) Internet help desk. Thanks for holding. How can I help you? Uh huh… (makes cucoo faces)… oh my… I see… You can’t get your email. Can you be more specific. Uh huh. Uh huh. Uh huh. Well, that does sound serious. Could you hold please?

(Long hold… whistle and noodle about)

(off hold) Alright, first off are you configured for Outlook Express, or for Netscape Navigator? You don’t know. Well, if you look at the upper-right hand corner of your screen what do you see? You see nothing. Just black. Ok, I’m sorry - My fault, I’m talking about when the computer’s on. It’s not? Well, let’s go ahead and turn it on. (TO KID) The guy’s got more computer power on his desk than existed on the entire planet up until 1979 and he needs me to tell him to turn it on.

(UNMUTE) Ok, so have you booted the computer? What? No, don’t actually kick it, sorry, my fault… What I meant was, Is the shiny tv screen part on and full of little pictures and stuff? Ok, good.
Do you have your original windows installation CD? Uh huh. A box somewhere, huh? Well, at this point I’m going to advise you to go get that… Uh huh. Uh huh. Well, that will be difficult. Yes. Well, I’d advise you to crawl then. That’s why they call it a crawlspace. (TO KID) He’s going to be a while. Ah. I feel sorry for the civilians, kid. Really I do. They don’t know how to get on the Internet, they don’t know why they want to get onto the Internet, they don’t even know what the internet is. They just want to be on it. So they pop down to Future Shop and buy the most overpriced piece of crap the salesman can soak them for, and suddenly they realize they’re lost in the middle of the dark continent of technology, with only me as their guide. I’m their shaman. In ancient time people couldn’t control the weather, so they called the Shaman. Now people can’t control their computers so they call me. I could tell ‘em to blow smoke up their USB port and they’d do it. Hey! Don’t touch that! That’s my Dilbert desk calender. You go looking through the cartoons for tomorrow, today, then how will you find the strength to go on tomorrow morning when you sit down to lead Joe Moron through cleaning the porno out of his Internet Explorer History cache before his wife gets home? Jeez! Have some discipline. (TO PHONE) Yes. Hello, I’m still here. You have it? Excellent. Alright, now, are you in front of the computer? Good. Now read me the name of the thingee that you double-click on to get your email. Outlook Express? Good. Take the mouse and double click on that. No, it’s not going to cut us off. I know we’re on the phone, but we don’t have to actually connect to the internet to change your settings, it will give you an error message.
Yes. Please calm down. I told you it would give an error message. It’s not a personal affront sir, it’s just a message. Just click “cancel”. Ok, good. Now, click on Tools… now go down to Accounts and click. Now click on Mail, then the blue text, then properties…
What? No. “Tools”… It’s at the top. Yes. Click on that. No, click on it. What do you mean? Office? No, I didn’t want you to run Office, I said Outlook Express. No, Microsoft is a company, not a… What? Illegal instruction? Wow, Office must be pooched. No, you haven’t broken any laws… it’s just crashed because… What you need to… No… don’t unplug it… just…

(punches the chair)

Ok, ok… well, uh… plug it back in then…… No, I won’t tell the police…

(to Kid) He unplugged it. We are dealing with a serious 12 o’clock flasher here kid. You know what a 12 o’clock flasher is don’t you? Every appliance in the house is always flashing 12 o’clock because they’re too stupid to set it. There’s no hope teaching a 12 o’clock flasher anything. Time to move to plan b.

(to customer) Sir? Sir. Do you have a child around the house? You do? How old is she? Nine? Ok, could you put her on please? Thank you.

(to kid) Check this out.

(to customer) Hi there, who am I speaking with? Beth? What grade are you in, Beth? Grade 4? Wow. Do you like school? Good for you, Beth. Ok, Beth, here’s the thing. Your daddie really needs his Outlook Express configured to use the 3rd party dialer instead of LAN or whatever it’s set to now… yeah, could you change it for him? Thanks Beth… oh and while you’re at it, you wanna check that his smtp address is correct? Ok, thanks Beth. Oh and Beth? If I were you, the next time his computer stops ‘working’, tell your daddy it’s broken and to give it to you to play with, then send him out to buy an iMac. It’s a computer especially built for idio… for mommies and daddies. Ok Beth, bye bye.

Hangs up

(to Kid) That poor poor poor computer. God, it just tears me up that people like that are allowed to own a computer. It just kills me.

(LOOKS AT WATCH) Ok look, I’ll leave you to it. Go ahead and take your first call. Get dirty. I’m going for a smoke, but if anyone asks, I’m taking a dump. Good luck. And remember, you are God. You are the all seeing, all knowing digital Shaman of the global village. If you don’t know what to do, blame Microsoft and send them back to the store they bought it from. You’ll be alright. Just keep your head up, your mouse arm loose. Oh, and stay away from the porn sites between calls, they check.

 

1 ) IBM — Right now this is the most firing company for IT

professionals. In the last 6 months, this company has fired nearly 20%

of their employees because of BG check and performance issues. This is

the most insecure company from an IT professional’s point of view. They

don’t have any strategic plans at HR policies regarding employee

security. No appraisals (maximum 10%).

2 )TCS — Previously its an government IT Company . Now a days TCS

alos becoming firing IT company. Recently they fired on 500

people.( the people below 2 years of experience) and TCS losts so

many projects recently( especially British Telecom Projects).

3 ) Accenture — This is second top most firing company. The firing rate

is around 5%. This depends upon outsourced projects; they have a unique

system where Accenture development centers around the world bid for a

project coming into the company. Currently Philippinescentre is taking

the cake and the Indian centers are in a firing mode.

4 ) WIPRO — Firing people with very frequent back ground checks and

firing them with out even experience letters and relieving letters (will

mention as terminated from services)but will promise the employees that

they will retain them. After the project is over they will fire away.

Will threaten of criminal cases against such employees if they oppose

the move and has also filed against some.

5 ) Intel — Recently joined the league. Running in heavy losses, hence

firing 3000 employees in the Banglore center in a phased out manner.

6 ) CTS — Has a steady firing policy (checking the Educational

background and previous employment and also employee performance in

work). In a Recent HCL walk-in, around 50% attendees were from this

company. Sadly the I-pods have not helped them.

7 ) CSC — Excellent package but fires folks in Background check and

those on bench regularly. Recently fired 400+ employees from its

subsidiary Covansys.

8 ) Satyam — Currently stopped firing. The Attrition rate is very high.

No firing from 2005 until now when 1000 employees were fired in

Hyderabad.

9 ) Patni —- They fired so many employees that currently they are

facing understaffing and deficiency with number of employees. Very high

attrition rate.

10 ) Keane India —- This USA based company is always involved in firing

employees. Although they proudly say that they dont have hire and fire

policy. Recently they fired java and as400 professionals after which

most of the employees have started to pack their bags. Employees change

 

this company within 1 year.

So take care before accepting offers from these companies.

 

Laptops tend to lose their charm quickly when you’re constantly looking for the nearest power outlet to charge up. How do you keep your battery going for as long as possible?

Here are 15 easy ways to do so.

1. Defrag regularly - The faster your hard drive does its work - less demand you are going to put on the hard drive and your battery. Make your hard drive as efficient as possible by defragging it regularly. (but not

while it’s on battery of course!).

2. Dim your screen - Most laptops come with the ability to dim your laptop screen. Some even come with ways to modify CPU and cooling performance. Cut them down to the lowest level you can tolerate to squeeze out some extra battery juice.

3. Cut down on programs running in the background. Itunes, Desktop Search, etc. All these add to the CPU load and cut down battery life. Shut down everything that isn’t crucial when you’re on battery.

4. Cut down external devices - USB devices (including your mouse) & WiFi drain down your laptop battery. Remove or shut them down when not in use. It goes without saying that charging other devices (like your iPod, Blackberry) with your laptop when on battery is a surefire way of quickly wiping out the charge on your laptop battery.

5. Add more RAM - This will allow you to process more with the memory your laptop has, rather than relying on virtual memory. Virtual memory results in hard drive use, and is much less power efficient. Note that adding more RAM will consume more energy, so this is most applicable if you do need to run memory intensive programs which actually require heavy usage of virtual memory.

6. Run off a hard drive rather than CD/DVD - As power consuming as hard drives are, CD and DVD drives are worse. Even having one in the drive can be power consuming. They spin, taking power, even when they’re not actively being used.

7. Keep the battery contacts clean: Clean your battery’s metal contacts every couple of months with a cloth moistened with rubbing alcohol. This keeps the transfer of power from your battery more efficient.

8. Take care of your battery - Exercise the Battery. Do not leave a charged battery dormant for long periods of time. Once charged, you should at least use the battery at least once every two to three weeks. Also, do not let a Li-On battery completely discharge. (Discharing is only for older batteries with memory effects)

9. Hibernate not standby - Although placing a laptop in standby mode saves some power and you can instantly resume where you left off, it doesn’t save anywhere as much power as the hibernate function does. Hibernating a PC will actually save your PC’s state as it is, and completely shut itself down.

10. Keep operating temperature down - Your laptop operates more efficiently when it’s cooler. Clean out your air vents with a cloth or keyboard cleaner.

11. Set up and optimize your power options - Go to ‘Power Options’ in your windows control panel and set it up so that power usage is optimized (Select the ‘max battery’ for maximum effect).

12. Don’t multitask - Do one thing at a time when you’re on battery. Rather than working on a spreadsheet, letting your email client run in the background and listening to your latest set of MP3’s, set your mind to one thing only. If you don’t you’ll only drain out your batteries before anything gets completed!

13. Go easy on the PC demands - The more you demand from your PC. Passive activities like email and word processing consume much less power than gaming or playing a DVD. If you’ve got a single battery charge - pick your priorities wisely.

14. Get yourself a more efficient laptop - Laptops are getting more and more efficient in nature to the point where some manufacturers are talking about all day long batteries. Picking up a newer more efficient laptop to replace an aging one is usually a quick fix.

15. Prevent the Memory Effect - If you’re using a very old laptop, you’ll want to prevent the ‘memory effect’ - Keep the battery healthy by fully charging and then fully discharging it at least once every two to three weeks. Exceptions to the rule are Li-Ion batteries (which most laptops have) which do not suffer from the memory effect.

Just something to share with everyone…..