Tagged With: pressure
Back off
‘Back off’. This is the message we sent out to a real estate client who was breathing down our back. Allow us to breathe. We are here to offer our services. Not to sell our ‘self-respect’. Actually there is an inversely proportional relationship between the two. The more self-respect one is willing to give up, … Continue reading
Euthanasia
My mother would be appalled by the way I run the house. The ‘dals’ are not kept in a linear row in the store, the containers are not symmetrical and probably have not been washed for a couple of months now. To top it, we have rats in the house. And for the larger part, … Continue reading
Au revoir
The day is over and I am sitting peacefully in the office, all alone with a cup of tea. There are unattended bills, bank instalments and the plotter is still in the service center. I have also been called to the bank at 3:00pm tommorrow and what transpires therein is still a question mark. … Continue reading
Irreversible process
A lot of reading and understanding is required for the ‘real estate’ project under discussion. I sat with the guidelines and other material in the morning and went through it once. It all went over my head. Then I tried to read slowly like I used to when I was doing graduation, use markers,pencils, make … Continue reading
Blog hatao
The pressure has been building up. Since morning. Blog hatao. Varna baat mat karo. Pehle blog hatao. It is of no consequence that Yashi is willing to pay only 2.5 lakh against the 3.9 lakh due. It is not important that we have suffered huge losses for the past three months due to the sudden … Continue reading
Dhandlebaji
Lucknow Industrial Development Authority floated a tender (for namesake) for the preparation of a masterplan and gave it to a company in Meerut called Tech Mech International, who has no experience in doing this kind of work. They have been awarded the work because of their ‘links’, ‘political’ and otherwise. Now Tech Mech invited us for … Continue reading
On my knees
No payment has come in this month(not that too many are expected). And all the bills are pending. I mean the pressure is truly building up now. I have no idea how to run the show on a day to day basis. I guess I am on my knees. The small team that we have … Continue reading

