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This is a post specially for our dear blogger friend Sindhu.

She has just joined a new company Genpact (I suppose thats what the BPO arm of GE is called!). I have something interesting to tell about this company. I have atleast 5 relatives who work in the company including two cousins. In our circles, GE does not mean General Electric but it abbreviates for Get Engaged!!

Yes, my cousins as well as the other relatives were unmarried prior to joining GE. Within a year of joining, they got engaged and are now happily married! See what a company can do to your marital bliss!

I'm sure that anyone who follows Sindhu's blog knows about 'her boss'! But lemme clarify that there is no truth in that story and it was just to pull her leg that I created it! And the entire blogville has had enough and more funny moments coz of it. I hope that with SIndhu joining GE, the boss episode comes to an end... and a new one (and a real one) does crop up!!

I'm 100% confident that Sindhu's status message would change to Committed/ Engaged/ Married in one year time from this day. Mark my words. Its not just me, you and the blogville thats in anticipation, but also Hyderabad's largest selling newspaper!! Over to you Sin...

Valentines Day

She: What are you gifting me this Valentines Day?

Me: Donno... lets see.

She: Do one thing.. just tidy up my sarees- wala almirah!

Me: Ok. What are you going to give me?

She: I'll arrange your almirah!

Me: Hmmm.. do one thing. You do yours' and I'll do mine, wat say?

Burglary in daylight

Just happened to visit 'Brand Factory' yesterday and needed to pick up some groceries and toileteries. The total bill came up to Rs 515. Apparently, under some scheme, if the bill amount crosses 500 bucks, you get a kilo of sugar for free. Great.

I generally check the bill for discrepancies whenever I shop at these stores, as invariably some errors creep in. This time around, it wasnt an error. It was simply terror.

A lot of stores bill the free item given and then deduct the amount as a whole as discounts/promos. Fine. These chaps went a bit further. They did discount those 24 bucks the sugar cost them, but they did it through a different process. They reduced between 3-6 bucks in each of the other items that I purchased!!

Now, what difference does it make?

Well, one thing I bought was the All Out mosquito repellant refill. Its original cost was 120 bucks for 2 units. The store has a discounted price of 102 bucks. When it was being billed originally, the computer showed the rate as 102. But after adding the free sugar, suddenly this becomes 96 bucks!

Two things here. One, the store pays less profits to the manufacturer in the name of giving more sale to the products. So, All Out looses out on 6 bucks from my bill alone! Secondly, sugar is a non-taxable product. All Out attracts 11% VAT. By transferring 6 bucks in my bill alone from All Out to Sugar, the store saves about 66paise on tax from my bill alone! Just imagine how much savings.. err.. cheating, these guys would do in a day.. and in a month!

From my bill of Rs 515, they saved say about 2-3 bucks. If their total billing goes for about 50K in a day, they siphon off atleast about 2-3K!! And I'm being conservative. Bloody fuckin burglars.

I'm actually tempted to go back, return that packet of sugar and get my 24 bucks back! And I'm sure they cannot object as it has been billed and not given free! If they do object, I can just file a police complaint.. wat say?

BTW, if any of u are interested in raking up this issue, I still have the bill with me!

As clean as a whistle

Ain't the Ozzies as clean as a whistle?