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  Office Capers: All play and no work….
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    Office Capers: All play and no work….

    July 29, 2006March 30, 2025
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    The last office workshop we attended was on ‘Stress management’. And on the neatly bulletted suggestions for relieving stress was the following idea…”Have your desk look clean and beautiful. Keep a stuffed toy or photograph on your table.” Ah…ours not to question why, but to do or die….——————————————————————————————————————Someone on the…

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    Office Capers: Personality Splits

    July 17, 2006March 30, 2025
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    The office seems to be a permanent school of life in ‘Things you didn’t learn in b-school’. And some of those were lessons that sound familiar but I didn’t really understand them till I came to live them. During my management program, I worked on a lot of ‘team projects’…

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    City | Poetry

    Phoenix City

    July 12, 2006September 17, 2023
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    The city of Mumbai is a phoenix.

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  • She
    Home & Identity | Map Of Emotion | Politics & Feminism | Relationships

    Judgment Call: When Women Make War On Each Other

    July 8, 2006December 29, 2023
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    Women judge each other and we make war. If a woman’s best friend must sign off on all relationship decisions, then she also has the power to wreck you with judgment.

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    Office Capers: Colleagues can be human too

    July 5, 2006March 30, 2025
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    Unveiling untold tales of office life! From morning mishaps to shared quirks, I explore the human side of my colleagues after a week of travelling with them.

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    Home & Identity | Map Of Emotion | Politics & Feminism | Relationships

    Men Are Like Waves

    July 5, 2006December 29, 2023
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    I navigate eligible men in the second wave of companionship. No rose-tinted glasses, just practical decisions & a pursuit of love without societal pressures.

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  • AI abstract travel landscape
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    Office Trip

    June 25, 2006December 29, 2023
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    Exploring with colleagues on a business trip – uncovering unique traits and commonalities. Join me beyond the office walls. #OfficeTrip #Colleagues

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    Office Capers: Prime location

    June 15, 2006March 30, 2025
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    Position is everything, so said a wise man.I agree.It’s location, location, location. At my earlier office, I sat at the office space equivalent of a crossroad junction. My left elbow practically jutted out into the corridor (and jabbed unsuspecting souls who turned the corner!). The watercooler was across the corridor,…

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    Home & Identity | Politics & Feminism

    A Whole Different Ballgame

    June 12, 2006March 30, 2025
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    Football, football, football! It has only just begun and I’m already sick of it. And I thought the cricket mania was bad!Yes, yes, I’m one of those boring women who don’t know a thing about cars and who yawn at the very mention of sports. But I’m a pretty girl…

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    Sign board

    June 9, 2006March 30, 2025
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    I found this board inside a temple on a mountain. The road to heaven is paved with boisterous merry-making…and err…bad spelling.

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  • IdeaSmith on A Post-40 Primer On Friendship With Men: Hope & Betrayal: “@Soumya: Thank you for reading and commenting. Yes, I’ve had a good male role model. Unfortunately for me, I’ve encountered…”
  • IdeaSmith on Trusting My Judgement Again: Thanks Meena Kandasamy & The Rookie: “@krist0ph3r: ‘Judgement as mental shorthand’ is a great way to look at it. It’s narrow to think of judgementalism as…”
  • Soumya on A Post-40 Primer On Friendship With Men: Hope & Betrayal: “Hi Ramya, Firstly, my congratulations on a well written post. It didn’t pull its punches. Secondly, it was lovely to…”
  • krist0ph3r on Trusting My Judgement Again: Thanks Meena Kandasamy & The Rookie: “Wow, that was a lot to process and at some point it got too much for me to handle reading.…”
  • IdeaSmith on When Did Reading Become Performance?: “@Sid: Oh god, you’re right.”
  • Sid on When Did Reading Become Performance?: “I think the Poser Reader sentiment also comes from the branding reading as a hobby has had. Successful people say…”
  • Topher on Lit Crush: Gabrielle Zevin ‘s Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow, The Storied Life of A.J.Fikry: “I too struggle greatly with problematic people who make great things. As a child Bill Cosby brought YEARS of joy…”
  • IdeaSmith on A Non-Medical View Of The Uterus: Blood, Babies & Hysteria: “@XXfan: Yes, it appears to be a legal requirement for the hospital to show the removed parts to kin, probably…”
  • Xxfan on A Non-Medical View Of The Uterus: Blood, Babies & Hysteria: “I experience with hysterectomy made me more mature.my mom had to have a hysterectomy.this was my first experience handling everything…”
  • IdeaSmith on When Did Reading Become Performance?: “@Slogan Murugan: Indeed. Books were always fascinating but this year has been about the people and spaces around books as…”

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