November 12th, 2007
I bought a brand new table tennis table at my new work place. It’s been a longtime wish.
It’s a game that I fell in love with when I started playing at Tidel Park when working at Sify. After work hours, we would head out to the ‘TT room’ and spend atleast a couple of hours everyday sweating it out. I loved it. It was fun and it gave me enough dose of exercise. Fun and exercise is an awesome combination.
It was at that time that I promised myself that whenever I open my own office, I’ll definitely get a ping pong table. I loved it when I was an employee and wanted to give my employees the same perk. When the table landed up at my office, I felt good keeping up that promise.
Yesterday, we played our first few games. None of us knew how to play the game well. We followed the simple rule: Just get the ball to the other court. The technique was zero. But it was sheer fun. We’d laugh at each other’s horrible smashes. It loosened us up.
I’m also aware of the downside. It’s going to affect the work productivity for certain. Yesterday, we spent two hours playing. The game will eat into the work hours but I’m confident that while the quantity of work hours might take a beating, the quality of work life will improve. And my belief is that this will have positive outcome.
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Ahh .. that’s a lovely way to treat your employees on a daily basis .. I love TT too , it all started with my dad getting addicted to it in his work place and it followed suit to home as well
wats the cost of the table macha ??
where are you working now, where is your new office?
kiruba tt table will soon be used as dinning table as kiruba has a house cum office f5ive technologies
http://www.f5ive.com/
wow! 5five has a great portfolio..it has done some work for big companies like sify too
it is a fun at work,so good
nicly work & all the best
It’s great to see a CEO of such a huge company and in general such a famous man take such good care of his servants. I am sure that by serving his servants water and providing them a table tennis board, Kiruba Shankar has made his corporation not only one of the fastest growing in India but also one of the kindest.
nice…..
BTW howmuch it costs kiruba
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how much???????? small digging turns out that this pic came from here.
http://www.wingkok.com.sg/sports.html
but dunno if tht table was bought from ther or kribs was jus googling TT board pic to put it there hehe :-p
hey playin the game is great fun,and a great stress buster, anyway happy playing, cheers
Playing game is great fun…,
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Krib, you have invited the devil to your office! We used to have a tt board in my fitness studio I worked out and the tt became such an addiction that i was missing my workouts…..make it strictly after work hours……..