Joe Speak

Bonjour tout le monde! This is my first attempt to study French, rather any sort of a foreign language that’s out there. It’s an exhilarating experience to study a new language – little difficult – but wholly fulfilling. Why study French? Why not study German, Mandarin or Japanese that will help you land a handsomely paying Job? The answer is very simple – French always captured my imagination and I always had an ear for French. Right from the time when French revolution was taught in my junior classes and to the more contemporary and turbulent times when Robert Langdon started the wild goose chase for the chalice from the corridors of “The Louvre”, I was in love with French. I have imagined so many cold nights spent on the banks of the Seine , and so many springs on top of the Eiffel. I have imagined my self in the Musée du Louvre , countless hours gazing awe struck at Mona Lisa, works of Raphael and Michael Angelo. Alors, my love for French has always been influenced by the fact t...

“Wanted degree holders as HR officers for an MNC with operations in India and abroad” – don’t worry! This is not an Ad that the author of this blog has published; rather this is an indication of the sorry stature of an MNC which has placed such a worthless and meaningless Advertisement. Human Resource is one of the most important functions in a Company. HR has got to play the most important and defining roles in the growth of the company by contributing to the growth of its employees. Human Resource, as the name implies, deals with the manual labor. HR should vociferously take a stand for the employee and shall promote his well being, thereby assuring employee satisfaction, loyalty and integrity. There are numerous young graduates who take up HR stream during the course of their Business studies and most of them have a very funny and disheartening reason for this choice. I have come across many graduates who feel that Human resource department has no job other than keeping track of t...

In 1971, when Ray Tomlison, send the first E – mail, he would have never thought that it would be the pre cursor to a form of distinctive psychiatric disorder named MED or Multiple E – mail Syndrome. This is a disorder that the author of this blog has experienced over a protracted period of time, and might most probably be the first one to discover and call this syndrome MED. MED can be touted as the cyber equivalent of MPD or Multiple Personality Syndrome, where the person experiencing the disorder dons many different personalities, all the time without any clue that he or she is becoming an entirely different person, in traits, in style, in manner, however short the transition is. As MPD, MED is not perilous, but pernicious. This danger shows its effect very slowly and one has to wait for a prolonged period of time to be aware of the dangers that MED posses. As a prime example, the author of this blog has 3 separate, characteristic and unique E – mail ID’s with three different servic...