Yet here we are with Stockholm syndrome...

Senior Consultant

The kid was his son, he wasn’t “kidnapper” per se. The story is pretty messed up though

Software Engineer

A 2 year old kid in Jaipur refused to leave his kidnapper when police came to rescue the kid. The kid got attached to the kidnapper !!   I don't know why but this seems extremely relatable to the c...

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A 2 year old kid in Jaipur refused to leave his kidnapper when police came to rescue the kid. The kid got attached to the kidnapper !!


I don't know why but this seems extremely relatable to the corporates.

You (Employee) is kidnapped and Your monthly salary is the Kidnapper.

Happy Pay day !!

Happy Pay day !!- Grapevine

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2 years back I joined my first company. After initial training got assigned on a client project, Unfortunately the team I was part of was very small, just me, my senior and tech lead. Since I was new I was facing problem in many task but whenever I asked my senior for help, he made me feel like I'm worthless and can't do anything, got very bad ratings form him, thus I was released form project in just 1 month, Since then I'm on bench. 

PS: Company has an excellent work environment and great WLB, everyone at company is very corporative excluding few people, also pays very good, company size is 3000 people, that's why I'm still here, will be switcing very soon.

So is it a good idea to kidnap him?

Just asking for fun, not going to do so.

Is it good idea to kidnap a senior?

I'm very frustrated with the behaviour of one of my coworker. Need to teach him a lesson that he will remember for rest of his life.

He's male, I'm also male. 
We are at same designation.

I want to teach my coworker a lesson. (Game bajana hai). Give me ideas.

Software Developer

https://www.timesnownews.com/bengaluru/bengaluru-frustrated-by-work-pressure-colleagues-hire-goons-to-beat-senior-up-5-arrested-article-109082101

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Corporate Strategist

but actually it takes time, about 5 minutes

[life lesson] old Hindi movies taught us that chloroform takes away consciousness immediately.

Senior software engineer

Apart from unethical sales practices, toxic work culture and mindless accusations, what do you think went wring with Byju’s.

Why do you think Byju’s is falling?

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Same as title. How to negotiate or what steps can one take so that one gets 100% hike over the current salary.

How to get 100% hike?

Product Manager

A person asking money to hire so openly these days, this happened with a friend who was asked to pay 50k for his Offer Letter.. the whistle who highlighted this issue was victimised and lost his job, the senior corrupt person unfortunately still working.!!

Corporate India still full of Coroption

Product Marketing Manager

We have been taught so much about POSH guidelines from our HR or our colleagues. Every time we are reminded about the existence of POSH and how we should not even respond to a girl. 
So here I'm asking you guys- Is this overhyped or POSH has some real value. 
Please give any incident you witnessed during your career in Corporates

Has there been any POSH case around you in your office? (Including both real and fake)

Growth and strategy

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The company did around 10-15% silent layoffs in the last cycle by putting people in PIP. 
My Manager told me that he has pressure on him to put at least 1 or 2 people in PIP, make them leave the company and reduce costs.

Later, the company did as low an appraisal as 2%.

Senior folks are leaving specifically Frontend Developers.

Salaries of a lot of SDE-2 are below 30 LPA.

They have started new positions called Product Developers which will do the same work as SDEs but with a lesser package. PD-1 salary is around 10-12 lakhs and of Lead PD is 20-22 lakhs.

The company is putting itself in a position where it wants people to leave on their own.

There are almost zero perks in the company. 
The team outing budget is a joke which is 2k INR per person per year. That is 500 rupees per person per quarter. 

Also making office mandatory from November.

Razorpay is too smart!

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Micromanager bosses are like overly attached parents who decide your diet, tell you what to eat and when and also give you instructions on how to chew. 
But it also has its BIG wins:
- You will never be alone.  You’ll never feel lonely. Your micromanager will be your constant shadow. Going to the meeting - he will be there. Writing an email, he will be in cc. Going the restroom - he is behind you. Having a date - he will stay on the call. Getting cozy with someone - He is right there.. in between you and ahem ahem. Thinking what to do next - He will be there in your thoughts, even before the thought of "I think" hit you.
- No more decision making. Who needs to make decisions when every choice is made for you? Whether it’s the font size on your presentation, angle of your desk chair, your hair color, your last name, your baby's name, your heart rate, your BP, your death time - your micromanager’s got it covered.
- You get free cardiovascular workout (Dhuk Dhuk.. lubdub lubdub.. you get the hint)
- You will be one of those few who will experience the joy of meetings about meetings for those meetings that were not required
- You will be trained to live in real-time surveillance conditions, where all your activity and movements is monitored and what you say is captured - you could be a contestant tomorrow on BIG BOSS OTT if you like
- You would be the elite few who will get to experience New, follow-up emails, reminders, and gentle nudges tags on an email all within 5 minutes of each other
- By the time you leave, you’ll have a black belt in stress management
- By the time you leave, you would have lost weight
- You will see increased commitment to work: You will sleep less, You will turn up to office on time, will work more and for extended hours
- You'll save money - no weekends = no social activities and outings
- With constant micromanagement, you’ll soon wonder "who are you" "why are you" "why are we" "why is everything" - first step of higher level consciousness

Micromanagers are good for you

Human resource

2 days back cracked the customer support role for the Flipkart CMB process at tech Mahindra.
But the salary they offered me was just 14500 and my recent salary in hand was 18000.

But the HR didn't agree and neither provided me with the cab service offer. So my conveyance cost calculation was 3000 -4000 from my home to the office in a month.

Lol, and that hit me very hard. I told the HR about it and she was not willing to do anything about it.

Got an offer from Tech Mahindra.

Strategy & operations

I'm a 28-year-old married (Wife is also working) individual currently residing in Kolkata, where the living expenses are relatively low. I have 5 years of work experience, and my current compensation package is 28 lakhs fixed and 3 lakhs variable (approximately 1.95 lakhs in-hand salary after deductions). With no liabilities or responsibilities, my monthly expenses are around 40,000 INR, and I manage to invest around 1.5 lakhs per month.

Currently, I enjoy a stable job and live with my parents, who take care of most of my living expenses. However, I'm considering the possibility of switching jobs and moving to another city, which would require me to bear the additional costs of rent, food, and other living expenses on my own.

Question: Given my current financial situation and the potential for increased living costs in a new city, should I explore a job switch and relocation? Or should I continue with my current stable job and living arrangement in Kolkata, where my expenses are minimal? What factors should I consider when making this decision?

Should I switch and move to bangalore

Recently set out to hire interns and had a really strange experience

Went through about 170 CVs. Most were shabbily formatted - which is okay, I understand most people aren’t that serious in college.

But then after shortlisting and setting up interviews:
- Multiple kids just did not show up for the interview. They did not even write a mail excusing themselves. Or reply to any mail from me about them missing the call.

- Some of them literally turned up for the call on their phone. They’re mostly well to do, and definitely have laptops. But just casual. 

- This reduced my selection pool to literally 8-9 interns from 180. Of these too, generally saw most of them had too much overconfidence and arrogance about them. Barely went into the depth of the answers, and would over-portray their contribution in past projects/internships, without being able to explain what they really did

I am genuinely shocked and taken aback. These were all Tier 1 college kids, and I just did not expect it to be so bad. A shock for me, and a future shock for many of these kids when they get into the workforce!

College kids have a reality shock waiting for them

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Last week I was walking downstairs near the Chai Sutta spot. I spotted many new faces/interns.
We have a cohort of interns right now some of whom will potentially get a PPO. 

Some were vaping. Some were smoking cigarettes. But fucking hell, I saw an Intern spitting Gutkha on the wall. I am not a very senior employee but I clicked a picture of that intern along with that wall. I talked to a friend of mine who is dealing with these interns and asked him to forward this incident to seniors.

Came to know today that the Intern in question will not be given a PPO. Apparently, he has submitted sub-par work throughout the internship along with shoddy behaviour with other interns. Also, came to know that he was also complained about for making regressive remarks about women. 

I wonder if people like these even deserve to be in corporate india.

Didn't give PPO to Intern because he spat Gutkha on wall

Software analyst

Welcome to Personal Finance's Private Community

Me and my wife are 30 years old software engineer with no kids. Draw 7 lac a month please some yearly bonus. We invest 2 lac a month combined into equity market through mutual funds. 

Expenses: 1.5 lac a month including everything, lives in Bangalore in good society, owns a car, don't thing much before spending. 

Still after everything left with 3 lakhs every month in bank account. Not sure how to use that. We both don't have any fancy "shauk" where we can spend and hence don't have an urge to earn more. 

Any suggestions???

Post tax 7 lac a month. Double income no kids, but not sure what do with all the money.

Getting one month of severance. Was part of marketing team in a startup. Series B startup - on the verge of collapsing ( or at least I think of it so due to shorter runway , no pmf )

Laid off today

Marketing manager

How would you live your life if you don't have any family/social responsibilities?

I will go first. I was kicked out of a company named Coursenator within 22 days of joining because I was using AI to do work.

Happy Pay day !!

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