Blind is officially in India now!

in India or outside?

In Bangalore Covid cases has started to spike again, please wear mask everyone. Yesterday one person age 62, passed away due to Covid. A leading well known MSME book keeping and Peak XV surged backed startup, has active COVID cases in the office and they are doing nothing about it. I asked the HR and the person was clueless. The positive person themself is informing everyone to be cautious. Health of employees is a joke here. Basic courtesy of informing employees is severely missing. Also not sure what Office Admin/HR leaders plan for our safety. These people will have no impact of their health and their families. I’m expected to come to the office though my work doesn’t require to come to office. I was okay with this. But after hearing Covid cases I have started to feel panicking. Also I have isolated myself from my fam and elderly parents. In Q4 the organization said it would be transparent. This is how it is planning to do that? Our health doesn't matter? :/ Only making things public, makes them take action. Is this what I have to do every time I need them to meet basic expectations? If any other company facing this problem? How are you dealing this? Please share ideas to isolate or precautionary measures 🙏

Need grapevine web urgently 😂

All Grape Pharmers (like myself) on what their next post will get

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After reading replies in grapevine for dystopian policies, HR policies, work culture, companies to avoid(looks like all companies should be avoided), related questions I'm kind of regretting as I took the decision to stay back in India and not pursue masters abroad to live with my parents. Given how pathetic the work culture is in almost all the startups(I'll go with 99.99%), politics and poor work life balance and living in a country where I don't get any tax benefits even after paying 30+% direct income tax, is it really worth living in this country anymore ? I'm feeling very sad, looks like I missed the opportunity to go abroad as I'm 25 now. Only my love towards my parents is holding me back since they both are around the age of 60 and I don't want to be the son who will make crores of money abroad and not be with them in case of any emergency. I'm don't want to leave them alone. Looks like there is no hope working in India. 😔

Writing on behalf of my friend who was associated with this company The actor Sonam Kapoor is married into a billionaire family. The husband runs an "ultra premium" clothing brand for elite, which just burns cash since launch but continues to exist. The parent company funds this brand for it's lavish existence. Though apparently, It is the best team one can be assigned. Too many meetings with celebs rather than actual work, top glamour events to attend, internal or client parties every other day, coolest co workers (all young group) P.S. Outsiders call it Bahane se chal raha brand (iykyk 😂)

At one time I had contemplated building an app like grapevine. i.e. blind for India. Kudos to Grapevine folks for executing on the idea and actually building it. There was one wacky idea I had which I'll share. Rest assured it's wacky. A company based/wide live chat for anonymous internal ranting. The dream was that the entire company would chatting and voicing their realistic thoughts during a boring ass all hands meetings. Of course there are legal problems with this as chances are you might get sued etc etc also the problem of verifying people from an org without comprising on anonymity. Anyway let me know your thoughts. Cheers

Well nowadays I am addicted to the grapevine app, so what about you?😝