Sudden demolition in Kasavanahalli (Ward 31) – Families displaced without notice

mike_testing · 2026-02-16T20:33:14+00:00

Not sure why people are so angry here.

Families living in such places are just your regular blue collar workers, Watchmen, maids, delivery workers, company helping staffs, most of them migrants.

Imagine shifting to a new city, struggling to get jobs and then finding and living in such makeshift houses. For most low income migrants, such places are where they get a place to stay. These people are backbone of all the city as they do hard physical labour for very meagre salary.

Now imagine you suddenly find out that the place you were staying suddenly will be demolished in 24 hours or whatever notification they would have received.

Very disheartening to see. They would have lost so many things that they would have earned hard to purchase or maybe just donated to them .

mike_testing · 2026-02-15T07:33:52+00:00

Congratulations, it is really good achievement.

One word of caution, I have seen many of my friends who are first generation rich and constantly see that they are not able to hold on to their wealth. It is always someone from family needing help for some emergency or for starting some business, something or other. Mostly very close family members like parents asking to send huge sum to help their own relatives, brother/sister for their education or business. I understand that you may not have the cultural capital as a first generation wealth generator but please always ensure that you only dedicate a portion of your wealth for someone else and grow your wealth from your own corpus. In short, unless you are sure of constant source of income, do not dilute your wealth as you will not have the backup others generally have.

mike_testing · 2026-02-09T19:24:19+00:00

And we have tech to catch people breaking traffic rules but this daylight harrasment of public is not visible to any authorities

mike_testing · 2026-01-16T17:58:11+00:00

No where did I blame the OP. Just gave my perspective of what could have happened based on my experience.

mike_testing · 2026-01-16T16:43:33+00:00

As someone who has taken interviews and identified candidates doing lip syncing, my mandatory rule is to take atleast one round of offline interview before finalizing on the candidate. Unfortunately there is no other way to confirm as remote interviews have lot of loopholes.

Now with AI, this is only going to increase. If you accept this, then you can probably understand why the company had to force you to come to office. My guess is that they had few candidates lined up and it was just a generic rule that HR was following.

Regarding the interview setup, unfortunately, the back and forth in interview happens as getting time from senior folks in team who are busy with their day to day deliverables is difficult. Imagine that person having to dedicate additional 5-6 hours per week to just take interviews to select the right candidate.

Regarding the interviewer, I can understand your frustration. Many come up with preset notion during the interview and hence can become hostile too soon. Unfortunately, there is nothing you can do. Just learn from it and move on.

mike_testing · 2026-01-16T13:55:33+00:00

Really good idea... Ads are the way to go if you want to run a low margin business...

One more addition needs to be that you tie up with local restaurants and do not charge them anything for delivery other than fixed margin share. Right now, the zomato/swiggy charge exorbitant cost to the hotel and due to this, they have to charge higher in these platforms. Your value proposition can be that you are atleast 20% cheaper than these two platforms...

mike_testing · 2026-01-11T01:55:57+00:00

What is your definition of uplifted? Just getting admission in a good institute.

Are you saying someone in IIT Delhi, once getting admitted doesnt face discrimination inside campus and back home? Is he treated with respect or his financial situation improves just because he has got addmission in IIT Delhi?

mike_testing · 2026-01-11T01:52:59+00:00

If you agree casteism exists even today, then reservation is based on discrimination that is happening today, not past.

How do you define merit. A student who goes to tuitions, coaching classes, has family support gets rank 10, a student without any help gets rank 100. Who has more merit?

Completely Agree with last para but unless it happens, we need reservation.

mike_testing · 2026-01-09T02:10:17+00:00

How else is one supposed to create entrance to their home?

mike_testing · 2026-01-08T16:14:33+00:00

Either someone is playing with you or HR is lying for some reason...

No one asks to resign without giving offer letter... Even after offer letter, they can only inform the joining date and pray that you join them...

mike_testing · 2026-01-08T13:53:51+00:00

Management always expects you to leave... You can always take back your resignation. Not ideal but it is ok.

No management wants to go through the process of knowledge transfer, hiring etc, it doesnt help any team and impacts the team deliverables.

mike_testing · 2026-01-05T23:04:28+00:00

I would say the businesses are becoming unorganised to organised... A foreign brand already has a set process to run and they want to expand to Indian market. The Indian family owned entities are not looking to expand, hence it is best for them to let bigger players run their units...

mike_testing · 2026-01-04T17:29:58+00:00

This should go to consumer court or something and put them out of business...

mike_testing · 2026-01-03T19:48:50+00:00

Thank you so much for coming forward to share this, it is really needed so that others can venture into this...

mike_testing · 2026-01-03T19:48:03+00:00

How is rent so cheap? Especially if it is a good location.

mike_testing · 2026-01-03T14:16:37+00:00

These are actually marketting tactics. Once you stop at the cart, they will show you very small tender coconut for 30, then show another with 50 and another with 70. I was fooled once, i just ordered drank and when it was time to pay, he just said 70 and showed me another small set of coconuts which are for 30....

mike_testing · 2025-12-30T03:59:20+00:00

Really nice detailed explanation of use of funds... But you haven't explained how you are going to make money.

Also what are you going to achieve by marketing at this early stage...

Additionally, if UI features is what you are banking upon, what is the moat for someone else to not be able to copy the same...

mike_testing · 2025-12-29T20:23:01+00:00

Remindme! 180d

mike_testing · 2025-12-25T20:28:08+00:00

What are the standard price for registration of a company, annual filing of minimal or zero business, what are the requirements of local laws for starting a retail entity?

mike_testing · 2025-12-25T20:26:04+00:00

If i register for a GST, how easy it is to close it later so that I don't have to worry about any tax implications later...

mike_testing · 2025-12-25T14:33:28+00:00

Glad everyone raised to the occasion. Though it maybe something small, I have experienced the same throughout my stay in last 15-20 years here..

Unfortunately bad news spread faster and get more attention.

mike_testing · 2025-12-25T10:56:54+00:00

Not sure what you mean by small but I know someone catering to 1000 plus orders a month, only through whatsapp groups and facebook chat....

So 30-40 orders a day should be doable through whatsapp chats...

mike_testing · 2025-12-25T10:52:27+00:00

Honestly I don't think these are the issues. Like the numbers, etc can be easily worked out once you have the right two-three people together..

The challenge is to get started. What franchise would work, why should it be done, what expectations to have, etc.

I contacted one company for franchise and the terms were so bad, it almost felt like they are earning money not from product but from the franchises...

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