Deepak Mishra

I was 100% sure I will be joining Clipshow (name changed) as an Engineering Manager, which was my eighth offer of the season. I even gave my confirmation to join the company, so that the CTO can inform the investors and roll out the offer letter. I changed my status to " not looking out ". The scene with the other company suddenly got aggressive. The offer from Lindakart (name changed) for Principal Engineer was the ninth offer I had. I had even had a quarrel with the CEO of Lindakart when I met him, but still, he kept his ego aside. The HRs from Lindakart were urging me to join them, even though they were offering me Rupees 2 LPA lesser than Clipshow. After hundreds of calls from those HRs, the founders, the VPs and other stakeholders, I started appreciating their perseverance and also started liking the importance I got. I hesitantly called the Clipshow CTO informing him that I couldn't join them. Surprisingly, he was cool about it. I was supposed to join on Monday,...

Finally, I published my first story on Amazon. The title is "Is Lal Bahadur Shastri Fine?" You can search and read it on Kindle. It is a science fiction short story. I hope you like the story. My Author Page: Dr Mystique Kindle Edition: Is Lal Bahadur Shastri Fine? Paperback: Is Lal Bahadur Shastri Fine? It felt great after publishing. It felt even better when one book was sold at Smashwords . -------------------------------- ------------ ------------ --- Updates: I have published another book through a publisher. This is science fiction as well. If you read it let me know how did you like it. Kindle Edition: The Travellers .

Policy 1: Sex ratio Many companies have a policy of maintaining the sex ratio in the engineering teams. Most of them have separate bars while interviewing male and female candidates. The lower bar for female candidates has been pissing off male candidates for very long. The men in the office don't respect the management decision of having women with lower calibre. To decrease the displeasure among the men employees and to justify pay as per productivity, the management offers lower pay scales to women candidates. It creates discontent among the women. If the bars are equal, the ratio decreases. Suppose, there are 80 boys and 20 girls in an engineering college and the percentage of smart ones is the same for both, say 20%. The set of selected candidates will have 16 boys and 4 girls. If the bars are different, the policies for maintaining the ratio will create unemployment among the male engineers or a shortage of women engineers in the long run. What is the solution to this?...

        I have been in Bangalore for years, and I have not seen any auto driver accepting a ride by the meter. They have excuses to not obey the meter and always charge double, one and a half times of the meter or fifty rupees more. There are mainly three main excuses. Between 10 PM and 6 AM, the reason is the night charges, which are double, saying that it's Government rule. Between 9 AM and 1 PM or between 5 PM and 9 PM, they take more because of the heavy traffic. Between 6 AM and 9 AM, between 1 PM and 5 PM or between 9 PM and 10 PM, they demand more saying that they have to come back empty.           For  point 1: The night charges are applicable from 10 PM to 5 AM, not 6 AM; also the night charges are 1.5x, not double.           For point 2: Heavy traffic is a satisfactory justification, but they exploit it to extract out money from the customer's pocket, due to customer's critical obligation to re...

Since the time I started using condoms, I had a post-sex routine to ensure 100% safety towards pregnancy with condoms which also provides some empathy towards maids who clean the dustbin. I thought everyone does the same. That's why it did not seem to me, a big thing. But my wife was shocked when she saw me doing the routine. I told her it might be common. I used to see condoms thrown on the roads filled with semen. I thought they were the careless ones. I talked to few of my friends what they do after sex, everyone said they rest, then throw the condom in the dustbin and then clean up. No one mentioned anything close to what I do. I realized that condoms are supposed to be only 97% safe because of lack of this routine. I think my routine might help many condom users, just that users should not be disgusted by their own semen. My process goes like this: 1. I don't tear the condom wrapper completely while wearing and keep it safe. 2. After sex, I rest for some time with th...

Something interesting happened today. I and Deepak were on his bike. Deepak saw a lot of 500 and 100 notes scattered on the road. He stopped immediately and dropped me to collect the notes and ran behind some bike. I quickly got down, collected all the money, also asked others who had collected some, to give it to me. Meanwhile, Deepak accelerated his bike. Deepak saw one guy was checking his pocket while riding his Scooty. Deepak chased him and asked him whether he had many 500 rupee notes.   Deepak brought him back to the location and we gave all the money in front of others to him. After seeing this, people started giving money by themselves to me saying we had also looted some but after seeing a good job from me and Deepak, they also returned it to me. And we gave all the money to the right person. He had 8000 with him, though he can only find 7000. It was extremely rare incidence. We were coming via a different route, through DRDO, to avoid policemen and he picked m...

While travelling to the west, to me the main issue is not saving money, not the white people, not the long journey but the thought of going to the loo. Without using water, we Indians don't get the satisfaction that our ass is clean. I think I am not the only one who find this an issue. I want to share how I managed to shit without water. The Jugaads/workaround we Indians can use to shit in washrooms without water? 1. Wet wipes Carry one wet wipe (max two will be sufficient) whenever you use the washroom. Use tissue papers in the washroom first, then at last use the wet wipe. 2. Mug/Mugga Buy a new mug in India and carry with you to wherever you are travelling. Fill water in the mug from any tap before sitting and use the water the clean your ass. 3. Tissue papers Take 2-3 tissues from the tissue dispenser and put some water on it. At the end use the slightly wet tissue paper like the wet wipes. 4. Use bathroom If you forget all the above in a hurry, don't panic. ...

Today I was feeling very low. I wanted to talk to someone. I could recollect only one person, an old friend Rohit Singh. I didn't have his number. So I took it from another friend and called him. Rohit did not have my number. I said, "I am Deepak. Deepak Mishra." He said, "Oh hi how are you?" But in his voice, I can figure out the curiosity of why I have called him after so long. I asked, "Do you know Biswa Kalyan Rath?" He said yes. I asked, "Do you know the part where he says ' har Hiroshima ka ek Nagasaki hota hai'  (for every Hiroshima there is a Nagasaki). He understood why I called him. He laughed at being called a Nagasaki. I said, "Thank you for existing" and we had a long laugh.

Dragon Ball Super series is going on and it just proved that the series will continue to do the same that it had been doing since Dragon Ball Z. In the tournament of power, Vegeta just got eliminated and Goku has become stronger than Jiren. What the fuck. First Vegeta fails and then Goku wraps up or shines. Frieza Saga, Cell Saga, Buu Saga, Universe 6 Saga (against Hit), now in the Tournament of Power too. So fucking monotonous. If Akira Toriyama can think of so many good villains and plots, why can't he think of a different ending? Dumb Fuck. There were so many good options in the ToP. Only Vegeta and Frieza are shown to be having a wish to the super dragon balls and also all the other universes hated Goku. Goku should have been eliminated before Piccolo and rest of the team could have taken from there. Vegeta and Frieza could have been the last two people left with Jiren at the end of 48 minutes. Jiren need not be overpowered in the ToP but his universe could lose b...