Y'all had girlfriends in high school? Not JEE?

@potatomato this is right. I don’t believe this picture too. 😂😂😂

Product Manager

Software Engineer

Consultant

Has something like this happened to y’all? 😂

Has something like this happened to y’all? 😂- Grapevine

I was at a friends place and it suddenly started raining heavily. I had to reach my girlfriends place ASAP. She was already very angry that I was not spending enough time with her. The problem was that I was not getting any auto on Uber or Rapido.

I stopped an auto and asked it for a ride. He quoted Rs 800 for a 4km ride. I was like, "Are you crazy?" 
I somehow negotiated it down to Rs. 500. But it made me wonder why is this city like this.

Like everyone is trying to scam you. Every one is a grifter, from your landlord to auto wallahs to the cops.

Have you faced such things in this city?

Why do people take advantage of you in Bangalore?

Uber guys also not getting Uber. 
 Such is reality 😪

Program Manager

ever happened to you? 😭

Senior Software Engineer

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

I'm feeling really stuck and frustrated at work lately. Despite putting in my best efforts and consistently performing well, it seems like my manager is feeling threatened by my progress. He’s been rejecting my ideas and work without even reviewing them, and calling me out in meetings for not completing non-priority tasks. The environment has become really toxic and it's taking a toll on me. Has anyone experienced something similar? How did you handle it? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Feeling frustrated at work

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You uploaded or wrote about an incident / joke/ meme on Grapevine
and a friend/family (who don't know your identity on GV) send the exact same incident / joke/ meme

Has this happened to you?

I work in company called "வேலைநாடு", they are mostly into blue collar hiring which sells plans to the needy. Almost 90% of their DB consist of blue collar workers but not limited to Field Sales Executives, Telecallers, Customer Support Executives, Drivers, cooks maid. They have four workspaces in one of India's metro cities. One office was occupied by Corporate Employee which has around 100 people and other was occupied by around 500 Telecallers and 100 others like process excellence, quality and so on.

Here corporate people are feeded with silver spoon, whereas operation team was not ever feeded with plastic spoon. Corporate employees has 4 restrooms with two back to back doors whereas entire operation block has only 4 rest rooms that too 3 for boys and 1 for girls. 

Corporate employees gets 2 days holidays a week along with 22 paid holidays and other holiday benefits for National holidays. But Operations Teams gets only one without paid holiday every month. Even that too. Holidays will be added to your account only end of next month. They have created a system where if you didn't login for 3 consecutive days, your termination mail will be automatically send to you.

Even the worst part is. Swiggy's owner know how much delivery partners because they are in the delivery field. Rameshwaram cafe owner knows how much cook suffers because he is in that field. Here the point if you are in same field you won't let your end employees suffer, coz you know their pain. But this company is in blue collar space. They did research on blue collar industry and use to post it in LinkedIn frequently. As per their research Neary 50% of blue collar workforce is fully dependent on daily wage. This company has planned to fire 50 customer care executives before a month due to a reason. They brilliantly have sent a mail stating revising appointment orders whereas the notice period was reduced from 30 days to 7 days. After a month. They have fired an entire team.

Have you faced same?

Operations team is a new Untouchability

The funniest shit happened at the office today. I was at my desk after lunch, vibing to "Like That(Remix)" by Kanye West and writing some test cases for this CI/CD I am setting up for a new feature. 

My friend calls me up and says that there is a BlinkIt parcel that I need to collect from the front desk. I'm like Bro I am busy right now. He says it's an emergency. I am like Okay.

So, I collect it from front desk and now he asks me to bring it to the WC. I am like bro wut?? 
He's like he needs it ASAP. So I oblige lmao.

I come to know that he has ordered Track Pants from BlinkIt because he shit his pants. Apparently, he had some street food yesterday and his stomache got upset. He had an in-person meeting and he wanted to leave for washroom because of his diarrhea. But he couldn't because he was presenting. Unfortunately, by the time that meeting got over he ran towards the WC. Yet, he was too late and ended up ruining his pants. 

This might be the funniest shit I have experienced. My private group on Teams is blowing up lmao.

Someone just 💩 in their pants in the office...

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We had just gotten done with the morning standup and a bat entered our office. 

It started flying everywhere above our heads. Just like it happened in the show 

Most people ran out of the office, but some sone cold people stood there working and unaffected 

Lastly, the bat is still somewhere in our office. It hid itself somewhere in the ceiling and hasn’t been located 😭

An actual scene from the office happened to us today

Just wanted to know what are some of the weirdest things you’ve seen your co workers do?


My co worker at a previous organisation used to take milk packets home which were  to be used in the coffee machines.

Weirdest thing you’ve seen your co workers do?

Assistant Manager

System, process, people or thoughts? What was the thing that made you go, shit I can't be here anymore!

Whats the most ridiculous thing you have seen in your office?

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

Hey fellow devs,

I'm a software engineer and I'm getting tired of the disconnect between the skills recruiters expect and the skills actually required for the job.

In my daily work, I solve problems that are mostly straightforward and don't require extreme problem-solving skills. But whenever I apply for a new role or get approached by recruiters, they always ask for "expert-level" problem-solving abilities, even when the product or service doesn't seem to demand it.

It feels like they're looking for someone to solve world hunger, when in reality, the job is more about maintaining and improving existing systems.

Has anyone else experienced this? Am I just being too salty, or is this a real phenomenon?

Share your thoughts fellow devs.

Has something like this happened to y’all? 😂

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