More power to you!  
  
 People even have problem I don't 'chat' during lunch hours. Dude 30 mins of peace is all I ask! Seriously get a life

@BiryaniEnthu Yeah I know this brand of idiot. Unceremoniously muted all these characters on my Teams.

Copywriter

Consultant

Your lunchtime tantrum is amusing. You're not a helpless employee, you're a spineless one. Grow a backbone, voice your concerns. Lunch is sacred.

Oh damn! I never thought about this. Thank you for the wisdom.

Robotics Engineer

Eat loud food with microphone volume at max!

Software Engineer

Corporate Strategist

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 seconda...

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

Lunchtime Rant- Grapevine

Welcome to News Discussion's Private Community

After reading the recent #Amazon post and people being truly open about it. I'd like to highlight what me and my Myntra colleagues at the same level faced. The level of emotional and mental harassment I went through was extreme. 9-5 extending till 9am to 11pm, i.e 12+ hrs everyday with no incentives, often my manager would ask me to connect at 12:30 a.m. assign tasks and say, complete this atleast by morning. Even on days when we're in-office till 10:30 at night working on displays and whatnot, after completion they'd say now go home and work on concepts, which is insane, work when? Most often our weekends would get consumed in work too as there's always, always something urgent everyday to prevent you from taking offs. It wouldn't be coming off as a surprise if people are saying they haven't slept for 3 nights straight, because they'd say so have I. All that at a package of 5.35 LPA, it's ridiculous.

One thing I really hated during WFH days was MEETINGS DURING LUNCH/DINNER TIME, after a few weeks when it became repetitive, I started saying, but it didn't stop as they would smartly schedule those at pre-lunchtime so no one can deny as it's not lunch yet, then it'll stretch till 3 or 4. Then after a point I started bringing this up in mid conversation in meetings saying "Is it alright if we continue this post lunch? I need to go have lunch" and the same will happen during dinner. They'd say "go quickly have something and connect afterwards".

No appreciation for all the hardwork, sleepless nights. So, started keeping healthy boundaries, politely refusing to work on weekends, letting her know I've appointments or I'm cleaning my room or doing laundry today which they used as a way to gaslight me by saying "you disappear on weekends, what's wrong with you now, you used to work fine, seems like you don't want to work here anymore, please be there this weekend and do this". I was still committing to their 9-5 stretching till 8 evening tho.

Myntra exploiting their Designers

JustEat invented lunch breaks and thought it was groundbreaking

No one reads the title anyway

Security Analyst

Welcome to Business Roles's Private Community

Happy almost Halloween! What have been your most horrific experiences at work? 

I’ll go first. My manager went on a week long holiday, all the while not replying to texts or calls and came back and yelled at me for going on without his approval :__

Job horror stories

I developed an API that basically took inputs from a webform and loaded it into Salesforce (I have oversimplified here).  
 While testing , one of the fields was "website", I simply typed "www.rk.com" which were the initials of my pet doggo. 
 The test went well, data got loaded into Salesforce. 
 I then get pinged by the multiple people that rk.com is a porn site and multiple people while verifying the test results ended up clicking on the link and got flagged by the IT security team for watching porn on office laptop🤣 . 
  
 It was an honest mistake nonetheless, but very horrifying for me🙈

Analyst

Database Administrator

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

How do you define work life balance boundaries at work? Everyone in my team works 10-12 hrs daily, it’s business as usual for them. I joined recently and it’s very problematic for me, I literally get no time to do anything else. 
I fear, that if I highlight this I’ll be singled out. 
Some people even feel very proud in doing so which I don’t understand. Don’t they want to go back home to their family and spend time with them?
Please provide guidance on how to set these boundaries and am I thinking right?

WLB boundaries at work.

Product Manager

With so many zoom meetings where someone just wants to toot their own horn to monotonous town halls, how the hell am I supposed to get any actual work done? So much talk about doing the work but no actual time to do it!

I hate working on someone else's schedule

Founder

I normally use mouse ziggler and take sweet nap in afternoon whenever WFH. 😌 
Anyone else has some mindbowling tricks for such slacks ?!

Afternoon sleep in WFH

Eat lunch during work hours then put 1 hr lunch and doze away 😂

Marketing Creative

Finance Operations

an angry employee deleted the whole GitHub organisation / repos of his company out of spite as he gets fired ;_;

This has affected the production servers as well.

what would be the repercussions for that employee for pulling off something like this.

employee nukes github org as he gets laid off

I’ll go first. The intern sent ‘bye’ on #general and was never seen again.

Most dramatic quitting story?

Here to take ideas for my last day message

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

Hi , this post is intended to be a disclaimer to anyone who is planning to join Yubi. A lot of things are happening here that show some signs of an impending layoff

1) Several senior folks in tech and product have quit. Also there is no replacement hiring planned for them. Several projects are also getting shelved as a result.

2) there were several open roles a few weeks back and almost all of them are on hold as of now across all depts( tech , business , ops)

3) rampant cost cutting. The lunch options have been reduced to just 1 dal , 1 veg , rice and chapati.  Snacks have been removed too.


Because of several folks quitting in less than 6 months and no replacement hiring , load has increased tremendously on existing members who are themselves trying to leave. 

People have serious doubts on whether any hike or bonus will be given or not this year.

Rampant negativity at Yubi

Growth Manager

And
How do you guys utilise the time to commute

How Do you guys prevent sleeping after having lunch in the office?

I’ll go first, I’m a dev and have an unlimited hardware budget to buy any device/accessories that I can justify for my work 😎

What are some cool perks of your job/role?

I’ve been promised that I won’t get laid off. I guess that’s a pretty good perk right now.

Growth And Strategy

WFH liya tha family ke saath lunch kar sakenge, bc inki meetings hi khatam nahi hoti hai

A day has 4 options (shabd) in corporate life:

1) First hour me (they ask for it the moment you arrive - starter pack of din kharaab)
2) Lunch tk - the statement says with love, "Lunch ke baad de dena" but they just ask when you take out lunch box
3) EOD - End of December, hai na?
4) 12 bje se phle - generally used by HRs for survey ya forms, we love filling it at 11:45 PM ❤️

Did I miss anything?

When your manager says kal tk

After Narayan Murthy, bhavish Agarwal, sajjan Jindal , Mohandas pai...next joker to fling his hat is Mr. Entrepreneur no. 1 

He is saying that if we work 💯 h then we can become a developed nation soon.

I think they should read Union budget, how government spends and it's mostly on subsidy, freebies and repayment of interest.

Basically, if we slog also then 30-40% of amount will go out as tax and that tax will be spent on useless stuff.

PS - 💯 h working janta will not get any concession in education, health, tourism etc.

Peace out ✌️

Now you can type ur rant after 5pm.

NRN was right, Youth should work 70h/week - Sasta Naval of India (Kunal from cred)

Senior Consultant

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

They have no life
They have nowhere to go
They have no one to be with
They have no passions outside work either

And they make your life hell as they become the baseline for comparison for all sorts of management from appraisal to work distribution.

Feel free to disagree with me, but I’m genuinely pissed today. How do you deal with them? I have a decent life outside work but lose most of it while trying to catchup to such people so that I don’t get fired.

Sorry for the title.

How the F do I deal with overworkers?

I'm also like this brother. But why I work like this? 
 I come from a small village in India . Haven't got proper education or exposure. Not born with silver spoon and this is the only way to feed our family. We too have emotions like you, but sacrificing everything for our future and family. I strongly disagree with @Elon_Musk. Usually, only people who don't work hard do like that.

Product Designer

We cherish our Friday Biryani sessions at the office. The biryani served is top of the class, and no one is absent for that. 

However, there's a tiny aspect that adds a bit of frustration. It's the unique way some of my colleagues choose to eat their biryani—with their hands, crafting rice balls as they go. While I appreciate the enthusiasm for the meal, it's a bit of a turn-off for me.

I'm contemplating a way to address this without coming across as a party pooper. Is there a tactful and light-hearted way to suggest that perhaps eating biryani with hands, Indian street-food style, might not be the most common practice in our office culture?

Looking forward to suggestions!

Rant: Frustrated with the way people eat biryani

OP, I will give u an easy option -  
  
 1. Capture an uninhabited island near Antarctica, create clones like you 
 2. Make yourself the crown Prince/ss  
 3. Declare Biryani as National Food 
 4. Declare Biryani-Spoon as National cutlery  
 5. Pass a law on anti nationalism  
 6. Execute those who can’t eat biryani with spoon 
  
 Hail the king of Spoon-Biryani Kingdom!

Hey folks.
Happy Friday!

What this post is: a place to hang around and chat just about anything - without having a specific topic to discuss.
Think of it like the watercooler at your office.

Look forward to hearing from you all!

Daily Watercooler - 4th Aug

Last two months had been great, I was consistently building a morning routine. Included little fitness too.
Happy how my body felt energetic.
Until one day, "I didn’t feel like getting up"
Two weeks, Schedule is back to groggy mornings, skipped breakfast, put on visible fat

Work has got shittier.
My day starts with 2 hours of compulsory, back-to-back meetings, followed by more 1-O-1s through the day. 
The meetings are just crying how things are bad, not working out, employees are not putting efforts, revenue is down, sales is not performing, clients are leaving - 3 hours later, we still haven't got a action plan. What's the use?

This wasn’t meant to be a rant. 
Just that cannot tell people to fuck off.
I feel should tell a part of me to fuck off too.

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