Arey yaar  
 Logging off from work for today, aaj ka ho gaya mera

Corporate Strategist

Software Engineer

One day imma join Microsoft just to expose these nibbis and their code commit history. Saari inki following aur distributed engineering nikal jaegi.

Haha, interviewer be like “What’s your motivation to join MS?” 
“Exposing Nibbi”

Product Manager

Classic gpt format! They don't even care to change anything

Consultant

Insert Rahul Gandhi GIF "okay, tata, goodbye"

Program Manager

Have stopped reading from anyone with “XXX k+” in their LinkedIn bio 😅

Yeah imma take a sick leave for today f this

Analyst

Don’t cry, I know it’s too much to handle! 😂😂

Don’t cry, I know it’s too much to handle! 😂😂- Grapevine

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

I'm a final year grad student who is working as an intern in a startup. It's a small team, and I'm the owner of 2 projects. Recently I've been feeling overworked and underpaid. I'm an intern who is working at the capabilities of a full-time and more. How do I have this conversation with my boss?

How do i tell my boss I'm overworked

Enough to make a grown man cry

Data engineer

I currently work in a project that is driven by CEO and he is very intimidating. I work my ass off to make sure he gets what expects but today he was especially aggressive during the call. After the call I asked him to wait up for two mins and started telling him that I am getting intimidated by him. Although he was nice to me when I confronted him, now I am feeling embarrassed because I broke down a little when I spoke. Tears started flowing and I am feeling like a weak person. Just fyi I am an adult male.

I ended up breaking down in front of my CEO

It's ok to express your emotions.  Especially in times of stress / duress.  
  
 You'll be fine.  
  
 It's also important to sometimes define boundaries - if that was the intent of your talk with him today.  It's feedback and if he is an understanding leader, he'll give you your space and time.

Sales Manager

Product Marketing Manager

Hi, I’ve been feeling a lot overwhelmed lately and haven’t been able to cry (watching Tamasha on the week didn’t work either). I wanna know when and why the last time you broke down.

When was the last time you broke down?

Product Owner

Why cant I find someone who understands me !

Welcome to Movies & Music's Private Community

watch if you are staying away from your family:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C64EDtxBnlP/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

65K likes, 675 comments - dasoham_ on May 12, 2024: "Our first love, true love, maa ❤️

#dasoham". 

दासोहम on Instagram: "Our first love, true love, maa ❤️

#dasoham"

Don't cry after watching this, ok ? 🙂

Senior Software Engineer

Just wanted to see how others deal with the pressures they have at work. Everyone has their own way of dealing with situations. So how do you manage?

How do you guys deal with work pressure?

Project Manager

When those angry and frustrated tears come out, people think I am emotionally hurt, and inherently weak. Ironically, they are far from the truth. In reality I want to break something or someone's face because of the shit situation. But as I have to be civil and can't carry out the elaborate scene that my brain has conjured, the anger and frustration keep bubbling up. And as the body has to maintain its freaking equilibrium it resorts to release the anger and frustration in form of those damn tears. I freaking hate it when this happens. 

Tell me how do I stop the shitty tears from escaping when I find myself in an already messed up situation?!

Need help! Any time I am super angry or frustrated, those damn tears find a way out. How do I stop it?

What do I say. In pure tears

I turned 30 last month and I still feel i am a 20 year old. I lost the last 4 years of my life working from home and have started to go to office recently. I never worked together in a team, never been out for team lunches/dinners, never presented my work to the seniors/leadership. I have 4.5 years experience on the paper and my interaction with colleagues in person has been almost zero .

I don’t know how to do my taxes, can’t do basic servicing of my bike, extremely indiscipline’s, rarely track my expenses, can’t say ‘No’, haven’t upskill we and hence stuck in TCS, can’t stick to a hobby or interest, pathetic in managing my time, have no sense of punctuality, socially awakened, overweight with a pot belly and hence have confidence issues, can’t take care of myself in terms of self grooming, couldn’t maintain friendships as I used  to get offended when someone made fun of me or mocked me- my inflated ego is just useless. 

I can’t control my emotions, I sometimes get emotional and have tears in my eyes, I show emotions easily on my face, not smart when it comes to dealing with others, don’t know how much to talk to whom, whom to talk to, how to talk to and when to talk.

I’ve been told I’m pessimistic and highly negative about myself but I’m just saying things the way it is.
I have no responsibilities on life. I’ll be getting married the next year and I know I can take up the responsibility. But I still have the fear of putting my fiancé down. I love her a lot and I never even  would do anything to put her down.

My bad time management skills, inability to focus, getting distracted badly, being a slow learner, not networking, not having idea on making switches regularly, being too lazy and impatient to learn new things, not being updated in terms of on demand skills, tools , technologies, reluctance to learn something new and hence staying in comfort zone has screwed up my career.

I feel stuck and lost in life.
I honestly don’t know what to do.

Being a man child at the age of 30

Product Designer

Welcome to Confessions's Private Community

It's getting dirtier by the day and sure some orgs are still up to their dirty tricks.

The models:
- Appraise and then Lay Off: Why bother putting bandaid on a stab wound? Anyways the folks are going to fight how to answer the ..why were you laid off war, and now you are adding another twist.. why were you appraised and then laid off?
- Low appraisals to force quit: Undervalue them so they leave on their own. It’s a leeches way to cut costs. Kill morale 100%. Severance penny spent $0.
- Trap them in PIP: Dress it up however you want - very very few escape this death sentence.
- Silent treatment: No assignments, No meetings. Watch them spiral into anxiety and leave to save their sanity.
- Workload overload: Drown them in work until they break. No need for layoffs list until they make it to your collapse list first.
- Strategic reorg: Re-organize them out of existence. Offer a demotion or a proxy role in a random team that you know they dont want as an alternative. 
- Sudden policy changes: oh! I have seen so many I can't keep up with this one. 
New policies that make their life hell. People leave to escape your pettiness.
- Mandatory relocation: Demand they move to an undesirable location. Then you treat remote employees like outsiders. Exclude them from key projects, conversations until they feel like foster care kids, second-class citizens. You know the outcome from there on.
- Use the "Culture Fit" excuse: Call out how they’re not a culture fit. Vague, unchallengeable, and forces them out without severance.

And don't sell me "the org has got to do what it has got to do to survive" line. I don't buy that
If you have seen this being done, I understand your silence, but I don't value it.
If this has been done to you or someone close to you, I am sorry. Orgs and the people failed you. 
We could be 1000x better than what we are operating as.

dirty tricks played by orgs to Lay Off employees

Founder

Human Resource

Welcome to Personal Finance's Private Community

Alert: a rant post

Today I saw my payslip after a long time and WTH! I don't know what they'll take once bonus comes in. Paying this much for no water, bad air, corrupt babus and all those douche things.

As much as patriotic I am, this is just insane. On top of this add all the GST and sheet ton of other indirect taxes.

Living in India and paying like Europe. Wow!

Duck the government

Earning around 50 lpa at 24 is already a great feat. Still if u want to look at the dark side, nobody can help. This rant is more common than diabetes. Yet people will stress about same thing and rant to destress. Endless cycle. Either do something about it or bring some new perspective. P.S. I am in alignment with ur rant but I’ve made peace with the state of affairs as I am not looking to move out of India and I cannot strong arm govt. individually to change this.

Senior Product Manager

Talking about the harsh truth

Such sad much cry

Unacademy has just laid off the entire team of NextLevel and will be shutting the business. 

It is interesting to note that Relevel underwent a major pivot after failure and was rebranded to NextLevel. Gaurav apparently blindly wrote how this product will take on LinkedIn and make CV's redundant. 

Guess another unacademy experiment has failed but several employees are facing the brunt of the CEO's immature experimental nature.

Unacademy layoffs have begun 🤡

Guys, I've been watching matches alone since my childhood but I've never enjoyed it as much as I did this time. This year, again I watched all the matches by myself in my room, but thanks to Grapevine, I never felt like I was actually alone. I was watching on TV while replying and posting on Grapevine. It felt like I was watching it with all of you.

Huge shoutout to @Micheal_Scott for the platform. Thanks to @BiryaniEnthu for all those amazing match threads. And to all the others @TheOatmeal @lord_ @Careermode @samosa @AlphaGrindset etc. for your commentary. Special thanks to my brother @GallonMusk, your predictions were always on point. And that biryani is on me 😂.

@IntrovertBeing next World Cup, remind me and I'll get you that blue jersey.

Enjoy, guys, we finally won it! 🇮🇳

Don’t cry, I know it’s too much to handle! 😂😂

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