Thursday, February 22, 2007

Discount offer

"Hurry up! 50% discount is there in the super mall. And today is the last day to avail this End of Season Sales discount", I urged everyone.

Naveen replied, "These discounts would be present through out the year. Businessmen just raise the prices and give discounts. See, an item worth Rs.100/- will be priced 150 rupees and 30 percent discount(means Rs. 45) will be given on it. We stupid guys feel happy to gain 45 rupees as the discount but end up paying more."

"I don't agree with you completely. Promotions like discounts and prizes are useful for the business to improve sales and discharge old stock. During promotions if they make us to pay more then who would buy from them? Certainly they should be less than or at least equal to the normal price," I started arguing with Naveen.

"Do you think these promotional advertisements come for free? And businessmen forgo their profits for no advantage. And ... "

"Okay, now its not time for discussion, first go and get ready. We are already late."

In an hour we reached the super mall packed with Sunday customers. We all were excited to see 50% discount posters all around the place. But it remained only for a while until we noticed that it's 'Up to 50%' but not '50%'.

I liked a blue T-Shirt. But its price is Rs.800 with just 15% discount and so the amount required to buy it is around seven hundred. It's absurd, genuine price should be between five and six hundreds. But here all the prices are very very high. So, I left that shop and got into another store.

There I picked up a brown T-Shirt worth Rs. 200/- where "Up to 30% discount" was written on its tag. I asked a salesperson about the exact discount. He entered the code written on the tag of the T-shirt into a computer and answered "No Discount Sir". I am taken aback at his answer - "No Discount Sir". It's very bad if they don't have discount then why is there discount tag. As it was nice and not too expensive, I bought it. And from there we went to another apparel store.

"Buy three, Get 1 free" or Buy two and get 50% off on the third one", were the offers there. Rakesh selected a shirt and a trouser for himself. To utilize the offer I bought a trouser and took one more trouser for free of cost. We were not completely satisfied with them and we thought to postpone purchasing them. But the salesperson's words - "Tomorrow there may not be offer, Sir", made us to buy immediately.

Three days later, to accompany another friend in shopping, we went to the same store. But this time that offer is not there. Ha Ha, Naveen and I made a wise decision to utilize the offer.

With in ten minutes we heard an announcement saying that only for an hour "Buy 2, Get 1 free" offers on the same apparel that we had bought three days earlier. After an hour and a half we heard the announcement stating that the offer will close with in 20 minutes.

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Arrogant Man

The people who were present in the parking area outside the temple startled by the car which was rushing towards them. Every one is irritated by the rash driving. He got down from the car and gave a glance. His servant too got down very fast and locked the car.

The man shouted the servant, “Come here unlace my shoes and remove them”. The servant removed the man's shoes. Immediately the man shouted the servant, “You idiot, Who will take my socks off? ah.” Immediately the servant took the socks off from the master's legs and kept inside the shoes. The man entered the temple and the servant was standing beside the car sadly.

All the people watching the incident felt very bad about his excessive pride and inhumanity in treating his servant like that. Arun who was one among them, exclaimed, “How arrogant the man is!” The priest who was present there said to Arun, “Money makes Man Monkey”.

Though Arun was listening to the priest's words he was actually thinking, “When will the man understands that pleasing God is done by pleasing the people(world) around him. If we cuss others while praying its no more a prayer.”

Thursday, February 01, 2007

Query to find single girl

Though a better half is bitter pill, one needs to swallow the truth. Just Kidding!

Many of my friends, relatives are getting married this year. I should also search a girl, obviously she has to be from moon. But at first, I need to have a job.

Query> Select CompanyName, Designation, Annual_Salary, FemaleSingleEmployeeCount, SingleEmployeeCount
From VacancyJobs
where Annual_Salary >= 1000000 AND
(Select count( Emp1.Name) FemaleSingleEmployeeCount
From Employee EMP1
Where Employee.Sex is “Female” AND
Emplyee.Relationship_Status = “Single” AND
Employee.CompanyName = VacancyJobs.CompanyName)
> 0.6 * (Select count(Emp2.Name) SingleEmployeeCount
From Employee EMP2
Where Emp2.Relationship_Status = “Single” AND
Emp2.CompanyName = EMP1.CompanyName)
Order by VacancyJobs.Annual_Salary DESC, FemaleSingleEmployeeCount ASC;

Query Executed!

Result> 0 Rows displayed.

You may be considering you as unlucky but it seems you are lucky guy.

Past, Present and Future - All are abstract.