I feel this is a great time for entrepreneurs. If you fail you can always blame it on the economy and not on your bad decisions. So what are you waiting for ?? I also feel that conflict of interest contracts are in general so binding that even if you breathe it might result in conflict. But I also understand their need.

This is the last installment of my on-off series on economy. By now I am tired of “blaming it on economy” .   For those who want to catch the full story line, follow the links below.

1. Cost Cutting- Charge for Internet

2. Cost Cutting – Sell toilet paper

3. Truth Bites – Counter productive methods stay!

4. Unpaid Intern – Alternative to oursourcing ?

5. Entreprenueship – It starts with a small idea

6. Bottomline – If its hit, deal with it

What other topic would you like to see LifeStucks on ??

Have fun.

I despise the word “bottomline”. One of the many corporate lingo which just sound garish to me. Combined with the cost cutting strategies the companies are coming up these days, it brings quite a twist to the joke’s bottomline

One Other note: Turns out My toilet paper comic was not at all Fiction (as I thought it would be),

Ranjith forwarded me this link, read the comments, some (apparantly TCS employees) have actually experienced this – I wonder if one of them will start selling toilet paper in the office just like cuz did (entrepreneurship! )?
 http://invest-n-trade.blogspot.com/2008/…

Here is an excerpt:

“TCS is one stingy guy when its comes to giving hikes and i level of cost-cutting, it can stoop to such low levels.
1) They took out toilet paper in my office.
2) No water refills on sat and sundays.
3) To raise a cab drop off request after 10:00PM we need the center heads approval (he escapes by 4:00PM)
4) They started giving blue colored plastic chairs as a stand by for seats!”

ha ha ha

They insist that Entrepreneurship starts with a simple idea …….

PS: Next comic Apr 10 …. allow for time difference

Free internships are rampant today ! So are they good alternatives to outsourcing? Hire 5-7 free interns for a small project make them work … and it costs ZERO. What better way to find an alternative to outsourcing?

Do you agree?

PS: Next comic on Mar 26th…. I promise! (please allow for time differences )

Truth Bites – but whom? and where?

This is part III of the Cost Cutting Strategies series, the rest of them are:

Part I: $10 for Internet

Part II: Toilet Paper

PS: Its been several weeks since I have been able to create a comics .. so I hope you enjoy this. I have drawn a few more, but the problem is my shoulder doesnt allow me to work on my laptop as much as I used to …. anyways here it is

This is part 2, of the cost-cutting series. Stay tuned for more ….

For Part I: Cost cutting – paid internet

With the economic downturn, companies are trying to find creative ways to reduce expenses without laying off employees. Bits’s company takes the cost-cutting measures to a different level.

This is part 1, of the cost-cutting series. Stay tuned for more ….