Stupid (real) ways to get fired during recession (in Infosys and TCS)

These two are real incidents and one from Infosys and another from TCS.

1. Create color xerox copies of your bus passes and use company’s bus service for free 

Yes some of the freshers in Infosys tried this and sadly had a sad ending to their career. News is that infosys doubled its bus pass rates and pushed these thrifty freshers into such a genuine idea.

2. Try to hack your CEO’s account

This time its TCS, two Mumbai smarties who somehow found their CEO Ramadurai Employee Id and tried to log in to his ultimatix account (TCS all in all web application). Maybe they were thinking Ramadurai keeps a simple password or default password ??? . They tried it three times and his account was locked.  It appears that Ramadurai’s secretary wasnt too happy and he/she ordered a probe and the culprits were found within a day and asked to resign meekly. Good thing is that since TCS asked them to resign, nothing will be mentioned in their conduct certificates.  Hope these unlucky chaps try their luck in next year’s black hat meet.

Ok now dont give me a third reason which goes like “Writing a blog like this about your own company”.

Since I had joined a new company recently after quitting TCS, I couldnt collect much inside information about TCS. Anyway some of my friends and blog followers contributed the above incidents. Keep mailing me something happening around these IT firms and let me update it for you. 


TATA Motors to sell its first electric car in September 2009

TATA's electric vehicle - TATA Indica Electric
TATA's electric vehicle - TATA Indica Electric

Ratan Tata  announced that  TATA motors is ready with its electric car to hit the road in September 2009. If one could remember a  year back TATA motors had showcased its elecric car in international Auto Show. That was the pre-Nano era. Now one expects TATA’s electric car will surely attract more than what it did some years back.

TATA motors has modified its popular TATA Indica (first indigenously developed car in India) and readying an electric Car. TATA Indica is marketed in UK as City Rower. It is a Hatchback model and has a Sedan counterpart namely TATA Indigo.

TATA Indica is one of India’s popular cars in last few years, its Diesel model being a hit among the Taximen and Indica Petrol among general Public. It sells at 8,000-10,000  USD (4 lakhs to 5 lakhs INR)   in India. The electric car might cost around 20,000 USD according to some sources.