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HOKUM

Ever since I heard this word, I am rather interested in finding live examples of it. Hokum means "Meaningless nonsense with an outward appearance of being impressive and legitimate" . Lets find some examples of it! Fresh out of college, on my first day to job in corporate world as a software engineer, I got a warm 'welcome quote' on corporate from a very dear friend, I can't write that as it may seem offensive to many. In other words quote said 'Corporate is Hokum'. After spending almost 3 years I am quite agreed to it. Two distinct fraternities in a software industry are developers and managers. One using whole of their brains to get the real work done, other trying to manage these brainies and business. Both group fight with each-other as the opposition seem to be not according to them, rather I should say Hokum in their perceptions. Management is always concentrated to get profits out of development work no matter how hard it is to do in a set pe...

Matrix effect

Last Night, was my longest working run in office. As usual I was suppossed to solve THE problem (creation of some unusual brains) instead of the REAL problem (which actually wasn't one), third time in a single week!! I was in no mood to do a fight for the IRK , but then real Captain came in picture; taking the charge => He gave a kick start... Work in progress... much a frustration job it is to clean other's mess :{ Clock's tickin' the later half of night rather morning i should say, sleep pourin' in, but we were still on job!! Fren told the captain that I am capable of doing all the stuffs (while we were in a circumstance) .It was again a situation where a mere thought put a jolt to brain... "What if I fail ?? No, but I shouldn't let the brand IIT go down !!" Matrix movie scene started flashing down to pull my socks... "Spoon boy: Do not try and bend the spoon. That's impossible. Instead... only try to realize the truth. Ne...