Archive for November, 2006

Comparing Programming Languages in real life

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

There are so many programming languages available that it can be
very difficult to get to know them all well enough to pick the right
one for you. On the other hand most men know what kind of woman appeals
to them. So here is a handy guide for many of the popular programming
languages that describes what kind of women they would be if
programming languages were women.

  • Assembler
    - A female track star who holds all the world speed records. She is
    hard and bumpy, and so is not that pleasant to embrace. She can cook up
    any meal, but needs a complete and detailed recipe. She is not
    beautiful or educated, and speaks in monosyllables like "MOV, JUMP,
    INC". She has a fierce and violent temper that make her the choice of
    last resort.
  • FORTRAN
    - Your grey-haired grandmother. People make fun of her just because she
    is old, but if you take the time to listen, you can learn from her
    experiences and her mistakes. During her lifetime she has acquired many
    useful skills in sewing and cooking (subroutine libraries) that no
    younger women can match, so be thankful she is still around. She has a
    notoriously bad temper and when angered will start yelling and throwing
    dishes. It was mostly her bad temper that made grand dad search for
    another wife.
  • COBOL
    - A plump secretary. She talks far too much, and most of what she says
    can be ignored. She works hard and long hours, but can’t handle really
    complicated jobs. She has a short and unpredictable temper, so no one
    really likes working with her. She can cook meals for a huge family,
    but only knows bland recipes.
  • BASIC
    - The horny divorcee that lives next door. Her specialty is seducing
    young boys and it seems she is always readily available for them. She
    teaches them many amazing things, or at least they seem amazing because
    it is their) first experience. She is not that young herself, but
    because she was their first lover the boys always remember her fondly.
    Her cooking and sewing skills are mediocre, but largely irrelevant,
    it’s the frolicking that the boys like. The opinion that adults have of
    Mrs. BASIC is varied. Shockingly, some fathers actually introduce their
    own sons to this immoral woman! But generally the more righteous adults
    try to correct the badly influenced young men by introducing them to
    well behaved women like Miss Pascal.
  • PL/I
    - A bordello madam. She wears silk dresses, diamonds, furs and red high
    heels. At one time she seemed very attractive, but now she just seems
    overweight and tacky. Tastes change.
  • C -
    A lady executive. An avid jogger, very healthy, and not too talkative.
    Is an good cook if you like spicy food. Unless you double check
    everything you say (through LINT) you can unleash her fierce temper.
    Her daughter C++ is still quite young and prone to tantrums, but it
    seems that she will grow up into a fine young woman of milder temper
    and more sophisticated character.
  • ALGOL 60
    - Your father’s wartime sweetheart, petite, well proportioned, and
    sweet tempered. She disappeared mysteriously during the war, but your
    dad still talks about her shapely form and their steamy romance. He
    never actually tasted much of her cooking.
  • Pascal -
    A grammar school teacher, and Algol 60’s younger sister. Like her
    sister she is petite and attractive, but very bossy. She is a good cook
    but only if the recipe requires no more than one pot (module).
  • Modula II - A high-school teacher and Pascal’s daughter.  Very much like her mother, but she has learned to cook with more than one pot.
  • ALGOL 68
    - Algol 60’s niece. A high-society woman, well educated and terse. Few
    men can fully understand her when she talks, and her former lovers
    still discuss her mysterious personality. She is very choosy about her
    romances and won’t take just any man as her lover. She hasn’t been seen
    lately, and rumor has it that she died in a fall from an ivory tower.
  • LISP
    - She is an aging beatnik, who lives in a rural commune with her hippie
    cousins SMALLTALK and FORTH. Many men (mostly college students) who
    have visited the farmhouse,– enthusiastically praise the natural food,
    and perpetual love-ins that take place there. Others criticize the long
    cooking times, and the abnormal sexual postures (prefix and postfix).
    Although these women seldom have full-time jobs, when they do work,
    their employers praise them for their imagination, but usually not for
    their efficiency.
  • APL
    - A fancy caterer specializing in Greek food. She can cook delicious
    meals for rows and rows of tables with dozens of people at each table.
    She doesn’t talk much, as that would just slow her work down. Few
    people can understand her recipes, since they are in a foreign
    language, and are all recorded in mirror writing.
  • LOGO
    - A grade-school art teacher. She is just the kind of teacher that you
    wish you had when you were young. She is shapely and patient, but not
    an interesting conversationalist. She can cook up delicious kiddie
    snacks, but not full-course meals.
  • LUCID & PROLOG
    - These clever teenagers show a new kind of cooking skill. They can
    cook-up fine meals without the use of recipes, working solely from a
    description of the desired meal (declarative cooking). Many men are
    fascinated by this and have already proposed marriage. Others complain
    that the girls work very slowly, and that often the description of the
    meal must be just as long as a recipe would be. It is hard to predict
    what these girls will be like when they are fully mature.
  • Ada
    - A WAC colonel built like an amazon. She is always setting strict
    rules, but if you follow them, she keeps her temper. She is quite
    talkative, always spouting army regulations, and using obscure military
    talk. You gotta love her though, because the army says so.
  • Java
    - Bulky with big boobs. Does everything you want but slowly. Hardly
    complains about how you want it in bed. The kind of woman who is not
    sexy, but gives you amazing satisfaction. You have tried several women,
    but this one doesn’t get off your mind so you always go back to her.
  • PHP
    - Slick and slim lady. Very portable. Does nice and amazing things with
    her small body. Very good in aerobics. Not very sexy but intact. She is
    the kind of women that most men are happy to wed, though she will need
    a house maid because she is unable to carry heavy workload.
  • Ruby on Rails.
    The new girl in town. Everybody is talking about her. Very beautiful
    and sexy. Only daring men, because she is till new, have the guts to
    ask her out. She is modern and sophisticated. Already a lot of myth is
    surrounding her with regards to her ability. She is not talkative but
    looks rather very intelligent.
  • C# -
    The pimp from next door! She likes copying everything, from recipes to
    makeup to fashion. She is never original and likes to still other
    women’s ideas, then go about shouting that the ideas are hers. Those
    who are not aware of her source of ideas think she is very intelligent.
    She is very talkative and showy. Sometimes she is very good at
    perfecting what she has copied.
  • Python -
    The all complete lady who is the envy of the town. She came up with a
    slick new way of dressing that made her a hit. Those who initially
    scoffed at her new dressing later fell head over heals for it. She is
    not talkative, but when she does a job, she does it very well.
  • Visual Basic (Popularly known as VB)
    - The little bitch from next door. Probably the most dumb girl in town.
    She never turns a man down and all the boys in the neighbourhood use
    her as a training ground as they learn the ropes to adulthood. She
    never practise safe sex and regularly infects the whole system with
    memory leaks. Popularly known as VB, she is so loose a lot of fathers
    have spanked their sons for dating her. However, it is amazing how
    popular she is. Most men curse themselves once they taste lips of
    mature and sweet women. A lot of men have struggled to maintain decent
    relationships with mature women after being spoiled by this little
    brat! She doesn’t have a clue how to cook a complete decent meal
    without throwing up into the pot!

How to Annoy People?

Friday, November 10th, 2006

1. Specify that your drive-thru order is "to go."

  2. If you have a glass eye, tap on it occasionally with your pen while talking to others.

  3. Start each meal by conspicuously licking all your food, and announce that this is so no one will "swipe your grub."

  4. Name your dog "Dog."

  5. Insist on keeping your car windshield wipers running in all weather conditions "to keep them tuned up."

  6. Reply to everything someone says with "that’s what you think."

  7. Claim that you must always wear a bicycle helmet as part of your "astronaut training."

  8. Follow a few paces behind someone, spraying everything they touch with a can of Lysol.

  9. Make beeping noises when a large person backs up.

10. Do not add any inflection to the end of your sentences, producing
awkward silences with the impression that you’ll be saying more any
moment.

  11. Adjust the tint on your TV so that all the people are green, and insist to others that you "like it that way."

  12. Tell 1-800 operators they sound gay and ask for a date.

  13. Sew anti-theft detector strips into people’s backpacks.

  14. Hide dairy products in inaccessible places.

  15. Order a side of pork rinds with your fillet mignon.

  16. Change channels five minutes before the end of every show.

  17. Tape pieces of "Sweating to the Oldies" over climatic parts of rental movies.

  18. Decline to be seated at a restaurant, and simply eat their complimentary mints by the cash register.

  19. Buy a large quantity of orange traffic cones and reroute whole streets.

  20. Repeat everything someone says as a question.

  21. Write "X - BURIED TREASURE" in random spots on all of someone’s road maps.

  22. Inform everyone you meet of your personal Kennedy assassination, UFO, and OJ Simpson conspiracy theories.

  23. Repeat the following conversation a dozen times: "Do you hear that?", "What?", "Never mind, it’s gone now."

  24. Light road flares on a birthday cake.

  25. Wander around a restaurant, asking other diners for their parsley.

  26. At the Laundromat, use one dryer for each of your socks.

  27. Stand over someone’s shoulder, mumbling as they read.

  28. Ask people what gender they are.

  29. Lick the filling out of all the Oreos, and place the cookie parts back in the tray.

  30. While making presentations, occasionally bob your head like a parakeet.

  31. Lie obviously about trivial things such as the time of day.

  32. Leave your Christmas lights up and lit until September.

33. Change your name to "John Aaaaasmith" for the great glory of being
first in the phone book. Claim it’s a Hawaiian name, and demand that
people pronounce each "a."

  34. Sit in your front yard pointing a hair dryer at passing cars to see if they slow down.

  35. Chew on pens that you’ve borrowed.

  36. Wear a lot of cologne.

37. Listen to 33RPM records at 45RPM speed, and claim the faster speed
is necessary because of your "superior mental processing."

  38. Sing along at the opera.

  39. Mow your lawn with scissors.

  40. At a golf tournament, chant "swing-batabatabata-suhwing-batter!"

  41. Ask the waitress for an extra seat for your "imaginary friend."

  42. Go to a poetry recital and ask why each poem doesn’t rhyme.

43. Ask your co-workers mysterious questions and then scribble their
answers in a notebook. Mutter something about "psychological profiles."

  44. Select the same song on the jukebox fifty times.

  45. Construct elaborate "crop circles" in your front lawn.

  46. Make appointments for the 31st of September.

  47. Invite lots of people to other people’s parties.

  48. Leave the copy machine set to reduce 200%, extra dark, 17 inch paper, 99 copies.

  49. In the memo field of all your checks, write "for sensual massage."

  50. Stomp on little plastic ketchup packets.

  51. Practice making fax and modem noises.

  52. Highlight irrelevant information in scientific papers and "cc." them to your boss.

  53. Finish all your sentences with the words "in accordance with prophecy."

  54. Signal that a conversation is over by clamping your hands over your ears.

  55. Disassemble your pen and "accidentally" flip the ink cartridge across the room.

  56. Holler random numbers while someone is counting.

  57. Staple papers in the middle of the page.

  58. Publicly investigate just how slowly you can make a "croaking" noise.

  59. Honk and wave to strangers.

  60. TYPE ONLY IN UPPERCASE.

  61. type only in lowercase.

  62. dont use any punctuation either

  63. As much as possible, skip rather than walk.

64. Try playing the William Tell Overture by tapping on the bottom of
your chin. When nearly done, announce "No, wait, I messed it up," and
repeat.

  65. Sing the theme to the Batman television show as loudly as you can, over and over and over..

  66. Tell people their accent isn’t fooling anyone.

  67. Drum on every available surface.

  68. Write the surprise ending to a novel on its first page.

  69. Set alarms for random times.

  70. Learn Morse code and have conversations with friends in public consisting of "Beeeep bip bip beeeep bip.."

  71. Buy large quantities of mint dental floss just to lick the flavor off.

  72. Leave your Nine Inch Nails tape in Great Uncle Ed’s stereo, with the volume properly adjusted.

  73. Dress only in clothes colored Hunter’s Orange.

  74. Wear your pants backwards.

  75. Begin all your sentences with "Ohh la la!"

  76. Rouse your roommates from slumber each morning with Lou Reed’s "Metal Machine Music."

  77. Leave someone’s printer in compressed-italic-landscape mode.

  78. Pay for your dinner with pennies.

  79. Tie jingle bells to all your clothes.

  80. Repeat everything someone says, as a question.

  81. Leave tips in Bolivian currency.

  82. Demand that everyone address you as "Conquistador."

  83. Push all the flat Lego pieces together tightly.

  84. When Christmas caroling, sing "Jingle bells, Batman smells" until physically restrained.

  85. Wear a cape that says "Magnificent One."

  86. Finish the 99 bottles of beer song.

  87. Sing the "This is the song that never ends" song from Lampchop’s Play-Along.

  88. Leave your turn signal on for fifty miles.

  89. Pretend your mouse is a CB radio, and talk into it.

  90. Drive half a block.

  91. Inform others that they exist only in your imagination.

  92. Cultivate a Norwegian accent. If Norwegian, affect a southern drawl.

  93. "Forget" the punch line to a long joke, but assure the listener it was a "real hoot."

94. Routinely handcuff yourself to furniture, informing the curious
that you don’t want to fall off "in case the big one comes."

95. Deliberately hum songs that will remain lodged in co-workers’
brains, such as "Feliz Navidad," the Archies’ "Sugar," or the Mr.
Rogers theme song.

  96. Invent nonsense computer jargon in conversations, and see if people play along to avoid the appearance of ignorance.

  97. Ask to "interface" with someone.

  98. Incessantly recite annoying phrases, such as "sticky wicket isn’t cricket."

  99. Stare at static on the TV and claim you can see a "magic picture."

  100. Scuff your feet on a dry, shaggy carpet and seek out victims.

  101. Never make eye contact.

  102. Never break eye contact.

  103. Construct your own pretend "tricorder," and "scan" people with it, pronouncing the results.

  104. Give a play-by-play account of a person’s every action in a nasal Howard Cossell voice.

  105. Occasionally bark in a high-pitched voice.

  106. Say "okay, you’re gay" to anything someone says.

  107. As people talk, smell their shoulders.

  108. When in a conversation, look out the window, then say "Wait, start over. I wasn’t paying attention."

  109. Say to people, "Did you wear deodorant today?"

  110. Place your shoes on the table.

  111. When talking to someone, look at a spot about two inches to their right.

112. When standing near a "high-class person," ask them, "Excuse me,
but do I have a booger hanging on my nose? I thought I picked it off."

  113. Switch your neighbor’s lawn furniture with someone else’s.

  114. Call into work and tell them you have something better to do today.

  115. Buy goldfish and ask the clerk if they come with chips.

  116. Sample every flavor of ice cream and tell the clerk what you don’t like about each one.

  117. Pick your ear wax and ask if you could use their sleeve to wipe it off.

  118. Insist completely ridiculous things are true - like Bush is still President.

  119. Speak in a strong Welsh accent.

  120. Wear odd shoes.

  121. Learn "Ice Ice Baby" by heart and recite it endlessly.

  122. Disagree strongly with everything anybody says.

  123. Throw stones at people walking past your house.

  124. Keep changing the TV channel every two seconds.

  125. Insist that Celine Dion is better than the Beatles.

  126. Whenever anyone says something, laugh loudly as if they have just told and extremely funny joke.

  127. Phone McDonald’s and try to make a reservation for that evening.

  128. Spend an entire weekend pretending you are R2-D2.

  129. Phone random numbers and tell them you are holding their daughter hostage.

  130. Recite the first 4,000 decimal places of Pi. Then ask if people want to hear it in binary, too.

  131. Pretend you have gone completely deaf.

  132.  .sdrawkcab etirW

  133. Walk into people’s houses, go straight to the fridge without saying hello, and help yourself to their food.

  134. Speak so quietly that people always have to get you to repeat it.

  135. Loudly recite people’s most embarrassing secrets in restaurants.

136. Play the electric guitar very loudly and badly, then when the
neighbors ask you to turn it down, play even louder. When they come
round to complain again, say, "Oh, I’m sorry. I thought you asked me to
turn it up!

  137. Try to fit the word "cornucopia" into every sentence you say.

  138. Drive on the wrong side of the road.

139. Secretly learn to play the piano, then go to a friend’s house who
has a piano. Claim you’ve never played before then play Jesu Joy of
Man’s Desiring perfectly the first time. Then say, "I guess I must
kinda be a natural."

  140. Go canoeing and sing the Hawaii Five-0 theme.

  141. Claim that until recently, you thought Michael Jackson was a woman.

  142. Wear your cap backwards and say "Yo, wazzup?" a lot.

  143. Go to a Metallica concert wearing a Michael Bolton T-Shirt.

  144. Tell everyone you are Bill Clinton’s cousin.

  145. Take photos of people walking down the street and then run away.

  146. Dedicate your life to politics, become president of the United States, then raise all taxes to 90%.

  147. Down a can of Coke in one drink and then burp loudly.

  148. Insist that it was Bobby who shot J.R.

  149. Bark like a dog whenever anyone says the word "the."

  150. Wire up people’s cars so the horn comes on as soon as their car is started.

  151. Ride a unicycle to work.

  152. E-mail Microsoft to tell them about bugs in Windows XP that aren’t actually there.

153. Stare at people for about five minutes, making sure they know
you’re staring at them. Then, slowly sneak up to them while humming the
Mission: Impossible theme. Sniff their head, then run away. Repeat.

  154. Continuously mumble during a conversation.

  155. Take off the eraser to every pencil in your house, or better yet, someone else’s house.

  156. When in a chat room, spell everything incorrectly.

  157. Insist on "Weird Al" sing-a-longs.

  158. On a hot summer day, ride up and down the road and drench pedestrians with squirt guns.

  159. When walking down a main road, act like a drunk.

  160. Wear nothing but white and go mud wrestling.

161. Walk up to someone eating. Lean over and stare at them intently
until they notice. Continue to do so until they ask what you’re doing.
Reply, "I’ve been watching you eat for the last 30 seconds.. You’re
weird!" Leave the restaurant.

  162. When walking, talk to yourself constantly.

  163. Move people’s bookmarks ahead three pages when they aren’t looking.

  164. Call the operator. When asked, "Can I help you?" reply, "No thanks, just browsing."

165. Go to a gumball machine insert coins until you have a matching
pair of fake eyeballs. After attaining these, record the theme song of
The Twilight Zone over and over again. Drive down the street wearing
the eyeballs and playing The Twilight Zone theme very loud. When you
get pulled over, leap into the passenger’s seat and claim, "He was here
a minute ago, officer!"

166. On a night other than Halloween, get a few friends together and
dress like Jason from Friday the 13th. Have each of you stand a mile
apart on a highway.

167. After visiting the local donut shop, sit on the floor cross-legged
and insist in a childish voice that you haven’t received enough
chocolate sprinkles.

  168. Push a raisin into someone’s cream-filled donut. (I don’t get this one.)

  169. Spread fertilizer on half your neighbor’s lawn.

  170. Add A535 (liquid heat) to that little hole down the center of someone’s anti-perspirant.

  171.

  172.

  173. Add blank entries to lists, to make it look like it’s longer.

  174. Call every pager number you know and leave the number for your local McDonald’s.

  175. Wash and scrub the trees in your front lawn.

  176. Throw newspapers back at paperboys.

  177. Tell people their fly is down when they’re wearing sweat pants.

  178. Stand on a busy corner. Gasp, look and point up. See how many people look.

  179. At random times in a conversation, say "Hi," "Hello Sir, how are you?" or "Have a good day, thank you."

  180. Put electrical tape over the headlights of someone’s car.

  181. Walk up to random strangers insisting you are family.

  182. Dress like a "High-class rich person" and wash windows at random street corners. Demand a dollar in a British accent.

183. When a cop pulls you over, when they step up to your car, drive
forward slowly and make them walk. Especially if it’s raining.

  184. In an office, lock all the doors behind you.

  185. Face the back when standing in an elevator.

  186. Grin so wide it hurts your cheeks at every salesperson in town.

  187. When at an ATM, try to have a conversation with it, or pretend it stole your card. (This works best if there’s a line.)

  188. Unbend all the paperclips you can find, then replace every eraser you can find with a rubber band.

  189. Ask people to prove everything they say. (e.g. "I’m Bob, nice to meet you…"   "PROVE IT!")

  190. Sharpen All your pencils to the same size EXACTLY.

191. Answer every question with another question. As soon as one of you
says a statement instead of a question, shout "I win!".

192. Pose as a client at a bank or other professional institution, and
when you are seated in front of their desk, keep rearranging the items
on top into different patterns and tell them you are "just reorganizing
things."

  193. Instead of singing 99 bottles of beer on the wall, sing 999,999,999 bottles of beer on the wall!

  194. Call every girl you know "dude".

  195. Recite every song from the Playstation games PaRappa the Rapper and Um Jammer Lammy.

  196. Bring a portable CD player to a concert and listen the CD because you insist that it is "Just better quality"

197. Press the "power" button on on someone’s computer or keyboard when
they’re almost finished typing up a long essay, story etc. Apologize
sincerely, claiming that you thought it was the focus adjustment.

  198. Call 911 and breathe heavily.

  199. Take a shower. Feel guilty. Give it back.

  200. Mow your carpet. (Or preferably somebody else’s)

  201. Vacuum your lawn. (See note on 200)

  202. Recite shakespearian poetry to everyone you meet.

  203. Go to McDonalds and ask for a BK Whopper.

  204. Order a pizza and ask them if they can "please put the crust on top this time" in an exasperated voice.

  205. Every time someone asks you to do something or says something to you ask "Is that a threat?"

  206. When in an elevator, in different voices, shout out random floors, and then watch as you get there, no one gets off.

207. Also, when riding up an elevator with a stranger, start singing a
song that everyone knows, then expect them to start singing too. If
they do not start singing, insist, "Everyone knows that song. Are you
stupid?"

  208. While walking make car noises loudly (Such as changing gears).

209. Whenever somebody says something, ask what the simplest word they
said means. When they explain, ask what the simplest word in their
explanation means. Repeat this for the entire conversation.

  210. Go up to a someone and say, "Are you annoyed by irrelevant questions?" And then walk away very quickly.

  211. Finish each sentence with "Monkey See, Monkey Do".

  212. Click your mechanical pencils or your pens during a test in school.

  213. Pretend you are invisible.

  214. Convince people you are deaf and talk in an incredibly phony sign language.

  215. Spend all day at a fast food restaurant and see how long it takes before you have to pay for your "free" refills.

  216. Continuously open your briefcase or bag and say into it, "Have you got enough air in there?"

  217. While going down in an elevator scream, "AAAAAGGGGGHHHHH!!!! WE’RE GONNA DIE!!!" for no apparent reason.

  218. Call everyone a communist.

219. Explain "the little green men" in detail to someone, and when they
don’t believe you, accuse them of being one in disguise.

  220.. Call your neighbors collect.

  221. Whenever someone finishes a sentence say, "And then what happened?"

  222. Page yourself over an intercom, but don’t disguise your voice.

223. Send people annoying chain forwards with outrageous consequences
like "If you don’t send this to 300 people in 4 seconds you will die
instantly" and then insist that it is true and it happened to your
uncle.

  224. When walking push an invisible cart and make loud squeaky noises.

  225. Walk up to random people and ask them, very seriously, "Do you know the muffin man?"

  226. Clear your throat every three or four words while speaking.

  227. Look at your hand in amazement and say, "Whoa, I never knew I had this!"

228. While driving if you see a "How am I driving" bumper sticker, call
the number and inform the operator that the driver is doing a great job.

229. When driving with companions in the car, every few seconds slam on
the brakes and insist that a squirrel ran in front of you.

230. When driving with companions in the car, every few seconds slam on
the brakes and insist that a squirrel ran in front of you.

  231. Whenever anybody says anything to you. Respond by saying, "I know."

  232. Sending this list to all of your friends through email.

  233. Continue to ask someone, "Is this annoying? Is this annoying?" over and over and over.

  234. Tap someone on the shoulder repeatedly.

  235. Begin every sentence with, "By the Gods!"

  236. When you’re in an argument, no matter what it’s about, keep yelling "I don’t see your name on it!".

  237. When in public, pretend you are selling something in an infomercial.

  238. At a restaurant, repeatedly send your food back for changes and after awhile insist that, "This isn’t what I ordered!"

  239. Go to a shoe store and try on every shoe, then say that you aren’t interested in buying shoes and leave.

  240. Put powdered sugar in your hair, sit down next to a stranger, and scratch your head a lot.

  241. Turn on the Talk Radio Stations in your car, roll down your windows, and headbang.

  242. Walk around with a plastic sword and shield and tell strangers "I must avenge the death of my father."

  243. Scotch tape your door as an Anti-theft Device.

  244. Super Glue quarters to floors.

  245. Put the wrong date and year on the papers you hand in to your teachers.

246. Call random numbers and say "Hi, this is Julie from Basken Robins.
If you can name 31 flavors in 31 seconds you get a free scoop."

  247. WRIGHT N AL CAPITOL LETERS AND MISSSSSPEL EVRYTHIND!!!

  248. Get two cell phones and talk to yourself on them in front of other people

Why Employees Leave Organisations ?

Friday, November 3rd, 2006

Read also the book "First, break all the rules"

- Azim Premji, CEO - Wipro

Every company faces the problem of people leaving the company for
better pay or profile.

Early this year, Mark, a senior software designer, got an offer from
a prestigious international firm to work in its India operations
developing specialized software. He was thrilled by the offer.

He had heard a lot about the CEO. The salary was great. The company

had all the right systems in place employee-friendly human resources
(HR) policies, a spanking new office,and the very best
technology,even a canteen that served superb food.

Twice Mark was sent abroad for training. "My learning curve is the

sharpest it’s ever been," he said soon after he joined.

Last week, less than eight months after he joined, Mark walked out
of the job.

Why did this talented employee leave ?

Arun quit for the same reason that drives many good people away.

The answer lies in one of the largest studies undertaken by the
Gallup Organization. The study surveyed over a million employees and
80,000 managers and was published in a book called "First Break All
The Rules". It came up with this surprising finding:

If you’re losing good people, look to their immediate boss.Immediate
boss is the reason people stay and thrive in an organization. And
he ’s the reason why people leave. When people leave they take

knowledge,experience and contacts with them, straight to the
competition.

"People leave managers not companies," write the authors Marcus
Buckingham and Curt Coffman.

Mostly manager drives people away?

HR experts say that of all the abuses, employees find humiliation
the most intolerable. The first time, an employee may not leave,but
a thought has been planted. The second time, that thought gets
strengthened. The third time, he looks for another job.

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When people cannot retort openly in anger, they do so by passive
aggression. By digging their heels in and slowing down. By doing
only what they are told to do and no more. By omitting to give the
boss crucial information. Dev says: "If you work for a jerk, you

basically want to get him into trouble. You don ‘t have your heart
and soul in the job."

Different managers can stress out employees in different ways - by
being too controlling, too suspicious,too pushy, too critical, but

they forget that workers are not fixed assets, they are free agents.
When this goes on too long, an employee will quit - often over a
trivial issue.

Talented men leave. Dead wood doesn’t.

"Jack Welch of GE once said. A company’s value lies "between the

ears of its employees".