It feels really bad to read this 😔

Hello design folks of grapevine! A friend of mine has some visual design experience and is looking to transition to product design. She was considering joining the Ownpath product design fellowship (https://www.ownpath.com/product-design-fellowship) Any reviews of this program or have any of you been through this fellowship?

Okay so this was some time back, I was near the watercooler when I got an email from my colleague about a potential match. So, I hurried to the cafeteria to find her. She was just sitting there with a clock set at 10 minutes. I got a little nervous because it had been a while since I had done this before, but still I mustered some courage to go through with it. Not gonna lie I was a little excited. By the end of those 10 minutes, it was her who was victorious. I was a little disappointed but anyway we shook hands and begin to wrap up, when I suddenly noticed something. She was using a chess engine all this while to win at chess. I was so disappointed that I decided to not play chess anymore. She won but at what cost, my innocence was lost forever.

I've been working with ICICI since 2008 everythg was fine I had mny promotions wid a promotion too in the last FY of my recent working tenure..n then all of a sudden before few days of COVID, our profile staff received a mail that they going to end the whole profile from the very next day...the question is now how our profile staff going to make it thru when our profile was ended in a day and bank wud not b doing much, rather then depending on the people already there in other departments higher profiles to adjust us into the system somewhr....n as we all was handling audit profile so sumtimes we had to be a bit strict for getting the staff asking them to follow the process..making them do additional stuff was always taken as a burden so but obvious due to which we r no one's fav either..tht never liked us much..hence the implications was no departments head wanted us to become a part of the teams that to from a operations profile in a bank full of sales targets in every department it was a big no no..finally after taking all the measures to save our jobs when nothing worked out .. one fine day i received a call from HR tht either u leave the job by your own or we have to fire you (it was sugary quoted but obvious) inconveniently i had to leave the job.. without a backup job..after 13 plus years of work ex..i feel cheated as after receiving the bestest rating and a promotion in the previous recent year of my tenure with all my hardwork n a travelling job, as a single parent, staying away from my four year kid at home leaving him wid my parents ..just bcoz the profile was finished i was all of sudden not of any use n 'no one' to the ICICI Bank..overall this is the culture of many companies asking the employees last minute to leave..the more I love n felt proud working for 'MY' ICICI Bank the more betrayed i felt when i had to leave it abruptly..thts y PPL say "Love your job, not the Company" . A learning I took back home pretty late.

I had a boss who asked a colleague on their notice period to report to work when they were actually sick. 100+ fever on consecutive days. He took him to a client meeting, where he fainted and had to be taken to the hospital. The boss said - "Uski kismat hi kharab hai."

Hi everyone, currently my colleague is looking out for job in Data Science and has 7+ years of experience and profile is very strong and can vouch for the candidate.

Not good actually. Seasonal depression and perpetual anxiety from social interactions. Unable to forge intimate relationships. Life has been cruel

I am working as SDE 1 in a good Indian startup. It's getting toxic day by day. Late night workings like 3AM and working on weekends is normalised like anything. Since I am new to IT ( no sort of politics never) and have almost 2.5 Years of experience, I am facing issues in getting credits. Last appraisal cycle in January, I was nominated for promotion but wasn't given to me, reason: you have not worked with architect and he was making decisions. In that case, architect should have been distributed tasks to us. one SDE3 is leading one of the projects ( not a big one ) and manager/architect is not much interested and never join any standup or retro, I have contributed immensely to that. Now since it is completely driven by sde 3 , he takes updates from us and show his work infront of seniors and director + announces like his work and seldom we get thank you in threads. Like if you did one function or wrote complete flow, for both thank you. Because of all these reasons, my work is not getting recognised. There is no one in team to help in this. Whenever a manager or Architect show cases some features or release, it's pretty evident that his team has done it but when a sde 3 does it, it is not the same. It conveys the message all or 90% work is done by him. I would like to take some suggestions from my seniors and fellow mates here. Hierarchy - sde 1-2-3-4-EM I can't leave or switch right now due to some critical persona reasons.