Obsession with parrots

In previous article we had expressed the fear -

“We hope that CEO also doesn’t take the leaf out of the book of her project team, who seem to have attained mastery in constantly repeating like a parrot that miseries faced by residents are due to unauthorised and shoddy structural modification by some of the residents. “

Our apprehensions came true and during the meeting, CEO of Mahindra Lifespace Developers Limited, started parroting the same language as her project team. It is an inherent Indian nature that we are so shy of admitting mistakes and instead indulge in mudslinging and counter-offensive to divert the course of discussion. That sullen argument is so assuredly enshrined in the mindset that everybody right from CEO to local project heads keep repeating same thing like parrot. No wonder globally we are being branded as Typical Argumentative Indian (TAI). Stop getting tied up in TAI and instead start taking pride in the job.

When will these guys from Mahindra Lifespace Developers Limited stop cutting corners, and start cutting the crap?

When will these guys from Mahindra Lifespace Developers Limited stop giving that famous dog-ate-my-homework kindda dodge?

When will these guys stop watering the waterbody and start oiling the cognitive machinery? What about chewing on MENTOS, to switch ON Dimaag ki batti, unless there is some short circuit or overload in Dimaag that it refuses to switch ON , in same way as podium lights in night time. Every night you can see watchman struggling to switch ON the lights. No sooner he switches ON, that circuit breaker trips and podium is gripped in darkness giving much needed privacy to stray dogs for some romanticism.

All homes in Mahindra Eminente, seem to follow the First and the Second of Murphy’s Laws: if something can go wrong, it will; and if something can’t go wrong, it still will.

Every third day following amusing rigmarole goes on in my house –

‘I can hear the water dripping in pipe duct; call Patole, Call Umesh”, my wife yells out to me.

“I’m calling him; I’m calling him”, I yell back, punching in Patole’s mobile number with the practiced ease of long familiarity.

I get to hear- “this number is not reachable” – Patole hiding in some unreachable place. Then I punch the cell number of Umesh and give him my piece of mind and that gentle fellow promises to get all sorted out quickly.

Thank God these DOKOMO guys reduced the call rates , otherwise I would have got major hole in my pocket calling Patoles and Umesh and Viveks and Siddheshs and now another name has got added in the list – Commodore. Anybody knows his telephone number?

Favourite pass time of hierarchy of Mahindra Lifespace Developers Limited is passing the buck and busy doing buk-buk on cell phone wasting company’s money- “company ka maal water-body mein daal”.

What kind of checks and balances have been enforced since last meeting on 13^th June. Instead it tilted more towards cheques and imbalances. For a moment even if we presume that system of checks and balances exist by the virtue of MLDL belonging to one of the most respected brands, being a corporate body with sizable amount of public holding, pretending to practice high standards of corporate governance, whose board members are handpicked luminaries of business world, company complies with ISO standards, but at the very next moment when we look around at the work culture on display at Mahindra Eminente we tend to get impression that all those checks and balances have lead not towards improving value quotient but towards a gridlock, worse than what we see everyday on S.V.Road, right outside the poverty stricken gates of Mahindra Eminente.

If they can’t make a simple slope and cause water logging everywhere on the podium garden area, how they will take up major infrastructure projects. – Roads will constantly be waterlogged because improper gradient will not allow water to drainage. – thus turning the laws of the gravity and fluid dynamics upside down. We better not whisper Mahindra’s pioneering concept of anti-gravity and fluid dynamics to Newtons and Bernoullis, otherwise those poor guys will start turning into their graves.

Sometimes we tend to think that even the civilisation in Harappa and Mohenjodaro times had more engineering knowledge than what Mahindra Lifespace Developers Limited has at its disposal. We tend to wonder if project leaders of MLDL, passed out summa cum laude from awe inspiring institutions of modern times or what they hold is Munnabhai degree.

Subah Ho gayi Mamu….!!!! Wake up!!! Smell the coffee!!!

If coffee is not strong enough to wake you up, then come and stand under the various leakages in the stilt parking area from overhead podium.

What kind of neo engineering is this, that there is a leakage all throughout the concrete expansion joints?

Lets see when the project team decides to lunge ahead and stops parroting.