Colors And Lights

 “Cost-Cutting” seems to be the buzz world
in the corporate galore these days.
Everybody, each department is adding their two cents to this movement.
How come the cafeteria folks will stay behind?
I find that these people have very innovative ideas of cost – cutting. 

Come over have a look!! 

Six months ago:  

The cafeteria folks provided the sugar coated and mint flavored Saunf (Fennel Seed). A soothing thing that would make you crib less about the tasteless food you just had !! 

Sigh ! This lasted only for a month or so. The cafeteria folks decided that people should not get habitual to this luxury (?). 

Five Months Back:  

They replace the mint flavored Saunf with plain sugar coated Saunf. Now choice is yours do you want to have those extra empty calories?

If NO, please skip these tiny tid-bits!! Still it was fine ; people did not seem to get affected by those extra kgs. These folks who claim they take care of your health ( by providing deep fried snacks ) got to do something about it . 

Fourth  Month:  

They started mixing normal non roasted green saunf along with the sweetened saunf. It means in the bowl full of normal Saunf you will find those white colored sweet saunf seeds laying here and there. (Call it mixing if you can ) 

Okay they don’t want people to eat too much of sweet. But people seem to pick up only white Saunf from the bowl leaving the rest then and there.

Oops !! That idea was such a failure. The cafeteria manager would have thought of firing the guy who gave this idea.  

Three months ago: 

Alright; let’s kill the root cause. Stop adding those white sweet saunf.

 “ Naa rahega Baans ; Naa Bajegi Baansuri” !!   

Instead think of something which is really not expensive. Use your brains Damn it !!  

One month back:

Now we have Saunf added with Crystal Sugar/Mishari!!

Now this is what I call being real creative in the dead area of Cost Cutting !!  

Now:  

Mishari is missing…sweet Saunf is seen nowhere. The Saunf is available only during lunch. Not at other times.  

You said quality of the Saunf? Less said is better about it!! Saunf is free after all ..when we are not suppose to question about the quality of the food you pay for how can you question quality of the Saunf? 

Future: 

It won’t come as surprise if free Saunf becomes a thing of past; or we land up paying for the Saunf.  

One thing is for sure; the cafeteria guys are real creative and they exactly know where to do cost-cutting. They are expert in it. But you talk about improving the food quality the creativity disappears as if it never existed. Hats Off !!