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Python Nagaraju, a software engineer working with Infosys, has threatened to go on a stealing spree in his office if his manager does not increase his salary package by a whopping 400%.
“It was the strangest thing,” said Perl Murugal, a developer working in Nagaraju’s team. “Just before lunch, he stood up all of a sudden, picked up a stapler and declared loudly, ‘I want to tell my manager that I need a 400% hike in my salary. If he does not give me this raise, I will steal all of this office’s equipment one by one, starting with this stapler. If the management wants to stop this corruption, it better give me what I want’. God knows what got into him!”
So did Python Nagaraju’s ultimatum work?
“Nah!” said Perl Murugan. “His manager called Python into his office, and asked him to shut the f**k up. To add injury to insult, he allotted four priority issues to him and screwed his weekend!”
Python’s Manager C Javamani said that calling Python’s bluff was a no-brainer. “If he really was the type to steal that stapler, he’d steal it anyway, regardless of how much he gets paid,” he shrugged, and added with a cheeky grin, “Come appraisal time next year, Python and everyone else in my team will get the salary hike they deserve – a full four hundred basis points.”
A despondent Python now regrets his antics. “I should have known better than to trust AAP logic,” he said ruefully.
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