BPO and unionism

Finally sanity has prevailed. BPO firms have rejected the idea of the CPI(M) backed trade union , CITU to form a trade union.
The last thing the $5.2 billion industry requires is a trade union. Well I have my reasons.

1. If the trade unions were so worried about the employees why don't they fight with the goverment and provide good roads? (Any BPO employee would welcome it)
2. How about 24 hour power supply? For every hour of generator used the cost of operation FOR THE company goes up. Money, which should have ideally gone to the employee.
3. No BPO company dare to ill treat their employee. In fact, due to plethora of options employees for every imagined slight jump jobs.
What they require last is people like Brinda Karat and D.Raja to fight for them and shut down the BPO facility.

Is it not surprising that only 2 people are advocating unionism in BPOs.
1. Communist Party
2. Gartner research institute

1. Which country would benefit the most if Indian BPO industry loses its competetive edge due to strikes? Obvious answer is China. Communist party in India would like the chinese employees to become rich but not the Indian employees. Maybe we should ask people like Brinda Karat and D.Raja to take chinese citizenship and practise their brand of communism in China. I believe within a week the Chinese authorities would brand them traitors and throw them in some gulang where they deserve to be.

Now the second supporter of this unionism is the Gartner research institute. Well what more can you expect from an American institute lobbying hard to prevent outsourcing? Or does Gartner research institute have a chinese connection?

Review of a film in The Forum (PVR Multiplex) in Bangalore

A Cola can in one hand and a pop corn packet in the other, mouths agape I watched the Tamil movie Aniyan (Hope I got the spelling right) in PVR multiplex in The Forum, Bangalore. Mouth agape because such a wonderful topic has been murdered by the director. I had watched Chanakya (Kamal hasan starrer) about 15 years back and when compared to that, Aniyan was a big letdown. I could have stayed at home and watched some flick on either HBO or STAR movies and saved the cost of snack, ticket and petrol.
Besides, I had my Nokia phone in the silent mode and missed few important calls. (I did not feel the vibration and don't ask me how )
At the end of the day only happy guys were the PVR cinema owners, Cola company and the auto driver who charged a hefty premium for dropping me back home after the show.
On the positive side, the ending of the film is good but you don't get a refund for rest of the film. :)
Hope they had made me a director and I would have made a totally fundoo movie.