Founder

ADHD is so 2010s, it’s all AD4K or AD8K now!

Software Engineer

Most of these people are unhappy at their homes or don’t get to do this behaviour

Yes true. Something's off somewhere. We're either unaware of the resentment or ignoring it and not addressing it.

Controls freaks who watched too many episodes of Suits.

Donna kept Harvey Sane. Otherwise he would have fucked up badly

Why are some people always hyper at work? You run the world? Is the economy going to collapse if your PPT is not ready by lunch? Is the company going to shut down if that email isn't sent in the ne...

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Why are some people always hyper at work? You run the world? Is the economy going to collapse if your PPT is not ready by lunch? Is the company going to shut down if that email isn't sent in the next 5 mins? WHY SO SERIOUS?

Always hyper

Always hyper- Grapevine

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Do you thrive under Pressure?

Consultant

Give smooth tricks to look busy at work pls

If you are a developer, then delete a db in production. Will keep you busy till PIP.

Why do they always send me requests at the last minute? 😒😒

last minute requests.🥲

Graphic Designer

Just for better mental health. Because like sometimes managers or similarly ranked people, would make it seem like everything is important and needs to be done by xyz timeline. Have u tried to not take it seriously? How did it turn out for u?

Has anyone tried taking a serious task at work less seriously?

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Most of my peer colleagues are working late at night and on weekends as well. But I don't want to do it, now my manager (program manager, product manager, personal manager) is questioning my productivity and trying to compare me with the same level folks. How long I'm going to survive and what is most likely to happen PIP or Layoff?

In this situation, what do you suggest I'm kind of fresher.

Need your suggestions 🙏

Associate IT Engineer

Never overwork, you lose your piece of mind, sleep, and health gets ruined.

It's only Indians who expect to be avilable in both IST during the day and attend US calls with full attention from 6-9pm. Paid peanuts for serving two timezones. The burnout is so real that even if you logout, the mind doesn't logout quick

Product Manager

Why is everyone under so much workload and pressure in corporates or only I am feeling the same

Business Development Manager

Note - I am a product manager too

4 out of 5 product managers will act all high and mighty of themselves, bragging their way as if they run everything going on in the company, flaunting their business degrees and being utterly disrespectful towards their team( dev design qa name it), 

Recently started going to office so the attitude I am seeing is very transparent and more visible (more with the higher experience folks)

It makes me wanna leave this hyper inflated role, thinking of I will end up like them scares me, and you have to do is speak out jargons in meetings day in day out and have a English accent of Shashi Tharoor.

Recently my manager told that this is a role where you have to very representable or very visible and act in floor as if you are the busiest person on earth and I seriously some PMs in company doing that, they walk so fast in floor as if they will fall off or would be better to have 4 legs.

I am done with this product management shit

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Currently I'm just wondering why interviews feels so fake especially the behavioural ones, which I actually struggle with. 

I think it's just a game where candidates say what the interviewer wants to hear instead of trying to know the real character of the candidate. Compared to coffee chats, I think you can actually know about a person more than when you actually do interviews. Any thoughts here?

Interviews Are So Fake

In personal life, and at work, you will have situations where you have to provide instantaneous answers with feigned passion to trite, mundane, and sometimes borderline idiotic questions. Your employer wants to know if you are capable of marching as a dutiful soldier thru the corporate charade.

Software Developer

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In the buzzing tech hub, beneath the facade of innovation and progress, lies a silent struggle that often goes unnoticed—the battle against work stress in the IT, sales, and software fields. For many professionals aged between 35 to 45, each day brings forth challenges that extend far beyond coding and development.

One of the most daunting foes faced is the relentless grip of office politics.

Adding fuel to the fire is the unyielding pressure of high-stakes projects and tight deadlines. Working over weekends and stretching beyond regular hours have become the norm rather than the exception, leaving little room for personal time or restorative breaks.

Compounding these challenges are the grim realities of stagnant career growth. Despite dedicating years to their craft, many professionals find themselves stuck in a rut, with no significant salary hikes or promotions in sight. The once-promised ladder of success seems elusive, raising questions about job stability and fueling fears of sudden layoffs. This toxic cocktail of factors is taking a toll not just on careers but on health as well. The once youthful faces are now marked with premature grey hairs, and the constant stress is a ticking time bomb for heart attacks and other cardiovascular issues. Mental health struggles, from anxiety to burnout, have become all too common, silently plaguing the minds of those who bear the weight of these burdens. After all these real struggles, then come the layoff's and questions: Why did you leave your last job? 

Stop office politics and unnecessary pressures; learn leadership skills first before you manage someone. This post is written in light of the recent incident where a fellow quit his job with "Dhol and Dance" to start his own venture into fitness training. I am not supporting the act or trivializing his pain. I am just trying to make the point that office pressure is real and unbreable. Be human first.

The Real Silent Struggle: Unveiling the Dark Side of Software Profession

Lawyer

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It’s should and will always be about how productive those hours actually are. 

You see, no knowledge worker puts out more than 2.5 to 5 hours of real work in a day. That’s 12.5 to 25 hours of productive work in a week. The rest? It’s just meetings, updates and moving things around.

Five-day work weeks? If you’re measuring by butts in seats, sure. But if you’re looking at actual output, it’s a joke. We need to obsess over productive time, not clocking hours. The attendance/week hours mindset is a pseudo-metric killing the workforce, making us focus on quantity over quality.

Think about it: As a knowledge worker - your days are filled with meetings, status updates, and email threads. How much of that is real, impactful work? Very little. We’re stuck in busyness, mistaking it for productivity. But then again, if orgs obsess on outcomes only, employees will call them out: 'You don’t see my effort to go from A to Z, you don’t acknowledge it.' Hence, orgs measure you by hours. And for those thinking, 'Pay me by hours, overtime factored in' – great on paper, but useless for knowledge workers.

IMHO, we are way more more comfortable measuring by hours than outcomes.
We rave about deep work, about focus hours, but in reality we laude how long someone stays logged in. 

Weird isn't it.

The real debate isnt / wasnt about how long the work week should be (70/60/50/40).

Human Resource

Toxic or Running Late?

Growth Manager

This PPT could have been an email 🙂‍↔️

Why are EY consultants always creating unnecessary colorful PPTs.

Business Analyst

1. Fancy talks from founders such as ownership, independence, building for next generation, speed etc
2. Learn new tech
3. Glofiying working at odd hours
4. Don't talk about stress and anxiety 

Start ups are not for weak heart and normal humans who have life after work. It's only for people who will give up their life to build somone else dream. Prove me wrong.

An ex ola person cried infront of me for the workplace stress and unrealistic push

Startup are brutal

Full fledged PPTs and Business Cases are being made for initiatives that will be forgotten about in 3 days, everyone trying to appear busy while adding no real value.

Have seen this across multiple departments where people are spending full days doing god knows what. 

This activity becomes more frequent after first round of layoffs, post which people are trying to justify their jobs by doing essentially nothing.

‘Fake Work’ epidemic

Corporate Strategist

Full thread: https://x.com/_svs_/status/1782035515107340513?s=46

If yes, how?

Have you developed anti-fragility in your career?

Can someone from Ola help understand the internal policy on ESOPs offering? A friend is being offered a mid leadership role as a PM but with miniscule ESOPs (12L over 4 years 😅)

Ola ESOPs offer

Anyone here who likes to login and start working daily? I am a workaholic person but I am exhausted as work doesn’t excite me anymore. I’d rather read, learn random stuff than do my job!

Always hyper

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