We dont do that here. We just hurt the sentiments of others. Wanna sign up?

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At first I thought it's a joke... but it's a real "serious" article, LOL https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/2/12/hungerstrikesolidarityprotest/

At first I thought it's a joke... but it's a real "serious" article, LOL
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/2/12/hunger-strike-solidarity-protest/

In solidarity I'm conducting a 20 second breathing strike. Take that oppressors!

In solidarity I'm conducting a 20 second breathing strike. Take that oppressors!- Grapevine

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Growth Manager

Since no major media houses from any side of political spectrum are giving it appropriate attention that it deserves, I'm trying to share my understanding with the hope that more people look into it.

Sonam Wangchuk's fast unto death has crossed the 20 day mark. It deserves your attention to be looked into and analysed before dismissing it or backing it.

Please do your own research after this as my understanding can be an leaky abstraction ie. something that doesn't capture all nuances.

What are the major demands of Sonam Wangchuk and the Ladakh protests?

1. Statehood and Sixth Schedule implementation: 
Ladakh is currently a union territory. He is calling for Ladakh to be recognized as a state and for the implementation of the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution of India. This provision will provide autonomy and restrict the land rights of tribal areas to the local natives.

2. Two seats instead of one seat in the Parliament: Wangchuk is advocating for separate Lok Sabha seats for Leh and Kargil districts instead of one seat for both - with the goal to ensure that both the regions within Ladakh are adequately represented.

3. Separate local recruitment process for administrators: Currently, Ladakh administrators are selected via UPSC. He demands the establishment of a separate recruitment process and a Public Service Commission for Ladakh citing the unique needs and characteristics of the region.

4. Protection against industrial exploitation: Wangchuk is raising concerns about the potential for industrial exploitation in Ladakh, given its current status as a Union Territory. He is asking for regulations to protect the ecosystem from any future industrial exploitation.

Ladakh protest needs more of your attention

Software Developer

First time seeing this coordination of employees in any big company in India. Corporate slaves are realizing that they need to come together for their rights.

Well done!

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Just wanted to give some updates now that it has been 1 month since the last post

1) Senior Leadership from Tech (3) , a senior director from Product , Finance Head have all resigned. Strategy team has been dissolved. 
2) There are more people in the pipeline and will get more clarity by month end.
3) Everyone over the CTC of 60 lakh has been asked about the revenue that they bring in and based on that, their position is being reconsidered.
4) All contract workers have been terminated. Interns have been told that they won't be receiving PPOs.
5) Senior Management Has been asked to take 20% paycuts. 
6) Even at Junior level, people have been asked to take pay cuts or resign.
7) Lots of tools used in tech are being removed and AWS subscription has also been revised.


Meanwhile HRs have been celebrating on slack channels that Yubi has been ranked in Top 25 companies for career development :/

Rampant Negativity at Yubi Part 2

For years, if there's one thing that gets my goat, it's people interrupting lunch for work. After the lockdown it has become so blatant that people give you questioning looks as if lunch is secondary. Fucker, I'm not a foodie  but I work to so I can eat. 

So fuck all of them. If you set a meeting with me during lunch, I'm not skipping lunch. The video will be on, I will eat with my hands, and you WILL watch me eat. Don't like it? Don't meet me during lunch. As simple as that. 

Just a silent and probably impotent protest by a helpless employee.

Lunchtime Rant

Copywriter

To be very honest I feel very frustrated looking at the situation right now. Companies are laying off without worrying about the employees. It's just corporate profits everywhere.

I am scared to death that my career won't last long than 20 years because the moment these folks think you are becoming a financial burden on them, they'll lay you off.

I don't want to live my life in a constant war mode. The Indian education system has bruised my personality for a long time. I want to relax but looking at this battlefield I can never.

My weekends are spent worrying about planning for finances in case I get laid off. I am worried I won't be able to buy a house.

This shit is depressing me very much. Other folks please tell me how are you navigating this mess?

Soulless Corporations

Mandatory : keep on up skilling 
 Optional :  go outside India or move to operational roles(as it doesn't need creativity bone)  
  
 In your 30's you shouldn't explore stuff, stick with one domain(example : digital marketer) be the SME. In 40s you'll have 10+ years experience of a domain, and you're part of that domains evolution  
  
 No one wil have the know how you gained in 10 years

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https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/1680243054186307584

More than 170,000 Hollywood actors and writers go on strike against studios including Disney, Netflix, Amazon and Sony. 

The strikers grievances included increased pay, guarantees of work, and most interestingly, assurances their work WON’T BE REPLACED BY A.I.

More than 170,000 Hollywood actors and writers go on strike against studios including Disney, Netflix, Amazon and Sony. 

The strikers grievances included assurances their work WON’T BE REPLACED BY AI

Perks of working at CyberHub, ig. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I was at the Cyberhub today morning and saw that a deranged woman was shouting at a female security guard. I couldn't understand what it was about because of a lot of commotion there. The woman made a mistake and pushed the security. The Security proceeded to slap her so hard in the face. Then, the security remarked something in the densest Haryanvi accent I know, "Pata nhi kaha se aa jaate hain".

I anyway have a ton of audit work to do and anyway month-end is coming so it is closing time, I rushed to get to the office.

Have you guys seen such lafda in real life? I was so shook.

Fight near my office, Security guard slapped a woman...

Founder

They are planning to build a 10 story building inside the park and the protest is to stop that. 

Not an activist myself, just came across this today while visiting.

Protest at cubbon

Product Manager

Grapeviners, this is what your corporate overlords like "Mr 70HoursperWeek" and all want from you, to DIE. 

70 hours per week? This is a tight slap to Mr. NM and his supporters. 

Consider the case of the McKinsey consultant who lost his life( https://www.consultancy.in/news/4168/young-mckinsey-consultant-commits-suicide-due-to-work-pressure ).
 
Wake up Grapevine!

Aftermath:
BofA Juniors will begin strike today.

Bank of America employee dies from working 120 hrs/week

Sick! People like NM are destroyers of work life balance. They earn so much but they want their employees to earn peanuts and work like maniacs.

Salesforce Developer

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While some CEOs claim that you have to pull all-nighters and work on the weekends to get ahead, other successful individuals from Jeff Bezos to LeBron James swear by a full night of sleep. Here's why they swear by getting seven to eight hours of sleep every single night.

Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and other highly successful people who sleep 7 to 8 hours a night

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Actuarial Associate

Googlers,

You may have seen reports of protests at some of our offices yesterday. Unfortunately, a number of employees brought the event into our buildings in New York and Sunnyvale. They took over office spaces, defaced our property, and physically impeded the work of other Googlers. Their behavior was unacceptable, extremely disruptive, and made co-workers feel threatened. We placed employees involved under investigation and cut their access to our systems. Those who refused to leave were arrested by law enforcement and removed from our offices.

Following investigation, today we terminated the employment of twenty-eight employees found to be involved. We will continue to investigate and take action as needed.

Behavior like this has no place in our workplace and we will not tolerate it. It clearly violates multiple policies that all employees must adhere to — including our Code of Conduct and Policy on Harassment, Discrimination, Retaliation, Standards of Conduct, and Workplace Concerns.

We are a place of business and every Googler is expected to read our policies and apply them to how they conduct themselves and communicate in our workplace. The overwhelming majority of our employees do the right thing. If you’re one of the few who are tempted to think we’re going to overlook conduct that violates our policies, think again. The company takes this extremely seriously, and we will continue to apply our longstanding policies to take action against disruptive behavior — up to and including termination.

You should expect to hear more from leaders about standards of behavior and discourse in the workplace.

Chris

Google terminated 28 employees Wednesday, according to an internal memo viewed by CNBC, after a series of protests against Project Nimbus.

Google terminates 28 employees after multi-city protests: Read the full memo

Internal Email: Google Employees arrested and fired for protests

Friend shared the email with me 
I'm glad Google is finally beginning to crack down seriously on all the woke shit that some employees do

Corporate Strategist

https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/not-going-to-work-out-for-you-amazon-tells-employees-who-refuse-to-return-to-office-3-days-a-week-2428172-2023-08-29

Work from home ends in Amazon

I am so frustrated by observing how some Indian startup founders have been mistreating employees. This is happening literally in all the startups and corporates.

Many of us invest their precious time and money obtaining degrees, only to become corporate employees.

India won the WC on Saturday night, and since then, I have seen numerous rant posts from people complaining that they missed this moment because they were overworked.

The rate of employee exploitation is alarmingly high, as founders often believe they have alot of options and are driven by their greed for money.

Look at the plight of startups, the top management says they do not have money so they lay off the whole departments without any prior notice. Yet they spend so lavishly on showing investors or on their socials how cool they all are.

We are bloody engineers, not their family bound slaves.
Why do we suffer ? 

I believe it is high time that we establish a union for employees working in the IT industry.
This exploitative culture needs to come to an end.

A Union of-by-for White Collar Employees

It’s disheartening to see 1000s of people being laid off in recent times. Most of them have a family to feed and EMIs / bills to pay.

Today it’s them and tomorrow it could be Me and You as well. 

And it’s pretty much clear that these new age companies are not empathetic and would go to any extent to meet their goals.

Why isn’t any employee doing anything about these atrocities? 

Following are the few ways to send out a strong message to these employers for abusing / blackmailing / and forcing resignations and PIPs (share more in comments)

1. Boycott their products / Services - make a noise about it on social media.

2. Stop subscribing to their IPOs or start dumping their stocks.

3. Uninstall their apps.

Time For a Revolution

Analytics Manager

- The third day of the Budget session saw a massive showdown as opposition INDIA bloc MPs protested against the Union Budget, calling it 'discriminatory'.
- Congress MP Rahul Gandhi dubbed the budget as 'Kursi Bachao Budget', accusing the government of making hollow promises to allies at the expense of other states.
- Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram criticized the budget for allegedly copying elements from the Congress 2024 manifesto, highlighting missed opportunities.
- TMC's Abhishek Banerjee and other opposition leaders slammed the budget as a failure, accusing the government of bribing coalition partners instead of addressing urgent issues.
- Tamil Nadu CM announced a boycott of the NITI Aayog meeting, condemning the budget for ignoring the southern state, with DMK MPs set to protest on July 24. 

 Source: Times of India

Opposition Protests Against 'Discriminatory' Union Budget

Journalist

- Indian police detained 104 Samsung workers protesting low wages at a plant in Tamil Nadu.
- The workers were planning a march without permission, leading to their detention.
- The strike has disrupted production, affecting a third of Samsung's annual India revenue.
- Police cited public peace concerns and detained workers in wedding halls.
- Samsung has started discussions with workers to resolve the issues. 

 Source: [Business Standard](https://www.business-standard.com/companies/news/police-detain-nearly-100-samsung-workers-union-leaders-for-protest-march-124091600356_1.html)

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