Note - Da : Tamil equivalent of 'yaar', with slightly different usage
Team Leads and other individuals with significant responsibilities need to discipline the ranks. Authoritarian bosses spare no one. Others favour more personal approaches, taking the 'im your friend' route to inspire the workforce.
An interesting thing to study is how friends in a B school study group, where there is no formal authority endowed upon anyone, discipline each other/respond to 'im lagging behind'. It is logical to assume that the studious assign work and make sure that its done, and the ones with diversified interests (read: free riders) struggle to complete their portions.
Heres a list of who and what they say when asked "dude, i havent done my part, when is the deadline??"
Ajay - "Machan, Whaaaaaaat is thisss da??? whyyyy cant you finish on time da??"
Arun - "Boss, this is not happening..."
Maheswari - "cho$#@^$! saala, i wont do this work..."
Alok - "We have a submission??"
Asha - "(after a painfully long silence on gtalk) ok................"
Robin - "hahahahahahahaha, u have work to do?? hahahahahahahahaha"
Sajeev - "Huh?? what?? I dont know da... i just woke up... (all while stretching in 4 directions)"
There also come times when groups need to make powerpoint presentations. Theres one everyday. Undergrad presentations were the stuff nightmares were made of; stagefright, cold feet, etc. These are nothing of that sort, but are a pain to make(powerpoint) and getting people to present.
Heres how a typical pep talk goes :
Ajay - "Machaan, I donno...... you are going to present..." - Ordering
Protagonist - "Ur kidding me right?? no chance in hell..." - dint work
Ajay - "Machaaan... Whyyyyyyy da?? Its only a ppt daa..." - pleading
Prt - "Dude, i gotta shave and stuff, no way man. no can do" - dint work
Ajay - "See da, only u can do this da" - Appeal to the ego
Prt - "yeah right, podaaa ^$!@#^$" - sarcasm, followed by expletive; dint work
Ajay - "Dude, You either present or make the ppt. Il give you the 75 page report, get started" - (Appeal to reason/threat)
Prt - "fine da, u make the ppt, il present" - (sees gain in meeting the terms of the negotiator)
Ajay - "Thats better..... hang on, i have to talk to kodi now...(on the phone)"Kodi, whaaaaaaat is thiss da???"
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Machan, Whaaaat is thisss Da ???
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Well, that might have been a one-off but this is how the conversation takes place 99% of the times
Srivats - (on gtalk) thr????
Prt - No reply
Srivats - (making full use of the free landline, calls)
Prt - (Oh god!!) Ya dude, tell me
Srivats - Dude, you will have to do the ppt & the submission for tomo
Prt - What? Me?(Taking a wild shot) I did it the last time and I am busy now.. So can you please handle the work??
Srivats - No you didnt, Asha did the work last time
Prt - Stop free-riding man and do some work. You haven't done anything this entire term
Srivats - Dude, whom are you calling free-rider, (now is the time you keep the phone away) bla bla bla ... maheshwari.. bla bla bla... somani... bla bla... ok i ll do the work and you dont ever call me a free-rider again (cuts the phone)
hahaha... i see those pills for schizophrenia arent working for you... hahaha...
good humour though... [:d]
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