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Manager is asking me if he should let the team know. I just feel it’s to early. Are there any cons?

When should you let your team know that you have resigned? Pros and cons. Notice period is 2-3 months.

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Is it wrong to ask a colleague whether he/she is resigning? I asked one of my colleague, that person started avoiding me, infact the entire gang started avoiding me? Is it so personal in a big MNC?

Resignation

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Thank God! We have Grapevine ❤️ because LinkedIn makes me 🤢🤮

Hit ❤️ if it’s true: because I got saved from a 🚩 company that got “Best Places to Work” award 💀

Product Manager

[whistleblower] what's stopping you from leaking your internal company information which you know is illegal/fraud or is not what your company portrays ?

Senior Software Engineer

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Well I've heard something about Grapevines culture, employees carry there laptop even when they hangout with friends.

Seems like prod issues are inevitable. ;)

Grapevine Culture

We got a round of funding in early 2022 and decided we hire aggressively. The new employees did not get adequate training and guidance. 

Till August 2022, 4 members of my team left and no one asked the manager why is this happenening. The remaining were just being loaded and loaded with work. 

From August, we went on a hiring freeze.

Then one more person left and things got serious, we were loaded with work.

In November, we had layoffs.
One team member quit voluntarily.

For a company that boasts its great culture, no one fucking asked the manager why so many people are leaving your team. The remaining are just waiting for a good opportuntiy to turn up.

And don’t get me started on the manager.

Complained to HRBP, no action. While our counterparts in the US are getting everything and everyone in need. 

Our all hands meets are about cost cutting, conservative appraisals and other bullshit while other teams are roaming the world and chilling. 

Just wanted to vent out.

Fed up with Chargebee

Id love to see Grapevine create a catalogue of Grapevine approved verified anonymous accounts of detailed employee accounts of how good or terrible a company is. Think The Ken but filled with employee reports. But the style of writing leaning on the casual office gossip side. And the content saved in an archive and searchable. The biggest problem of course would be getting people to verify their identity to a Grapevine mod or writer may be tough.
Me personally, I’d love to talk to some writer about my experience at my previous businesses. So many scoops and insane stories!

(I dislike Glassdoor for the HRs infiltrating and BSing everyone)

Grapevine Verified Inside Scoops

I’ll go first.

To me, it’s all about access. 
Access to authentic ideas.

The best search result you get on Google is high SEO but low authenticity. On LinkedIn, there are so many people but everyone is shilling a course or 1:1 resume reviews. 

Mostly it has become a place which started as vanity signalling 

Like
( I have started a new role…, I have been accepted at …, I have received offers from F, A, N and G and I’m joining G.)  

And now people pushing mindless content with “Agree?” or “Comment Interested”.

Somehow, everyone is truly inauthentic to please a wider audience and say the exact same generic gyaan to maximise engagement.

For now, Grapevine is where people are genuinely themselves and I get to hear interesting things that you get to hear near the coffee machine.

Kinda feels like we’re all a big community where we all contribute and learn new things about the professional landscape around us.

Godspeed Grapevine. 🚀

Hola Grapeviners! I would love to know why are you on the platform?

Does such grapevine flow to employees from top management?

What are some early signs of a layoff happening at the company?

The job market has not been good for the last 12-15 months, but organisations around are offering good severance to their employees and aiding them for their next steps. But UC conducts "performance reviews" twice a year, which is basically a platform for managers to wage a personal vendetta against the "low performers"(read: people who don't suck up to them). And hence, they strategically 'ask people to leave', in return of making sure that terms like 'fired', 'laid off' would not be associated with them. So, people put in their papers, and serve the one month notice without working, and get that salary as their 'severance'. 

Leadership team goes on to boast the fact that there hasn't been any layoffs in the company. Well, fair, because one needs to own the fact that they've laid people off, and funnily enough one of the UC values is 'ownership', and managers do OWN the indifference to the sudden absence of a certain team member from meetings. 

Apparently, people perform fine till the time these half yearly reviews are conducted, because there isn't any concern about their performances in the regular one-on-ones with the managers, but cometh the review, cometh the concerns with performance. Managers nit pick over employees not responding within 15 minutes to their messages. Also, there isn't a 360° view of performance, so your peers, who work much closer to you don't have a say in your performance.

UC brags a 'meritocratic' culture, and rightly so, where ones merit is their ability to show their work as 10x of what it actually is, appearing to be busy with a completely packed calendar, and always saying yes to whatever manager says, even if it means bending over backwards for them. 

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Urban Company - A spineless org with hypocrite leadership & incompetent middle management

Have noticed over the course of time, one of the clearest marks that somebody might be an asshole:

1) In front of seniors: Extremely nice, subservient, "How are you doing", "How was your weekend hehehe", They'll aggressively try to match lunch times, so on and so forth

2) When only juniors are around (absence of a senior): Clearly moody, won't talk properly, might even be aggressive in their asks, miss greeting them when crossing paths, avoid them during lunches, generally low energy around juniors 

We all know them, but it's an interesting way to gauge the people around you I feel. 
Anyone else noticed this/some version of this?

People who treat juniors and seniors differently

Recruiter

Corporate Strategist

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Random thoughts: is there a Grapevine for Grapevine employees?

Grapevine for Grapevine 🍇 Employees?

Software Engineer

I am not sure why grapevine pm is not thinking to roll out referral feature for this great community app. I'm not sure it's missing or hidden.

Grapevine is missing a major feature

Operations Manager

How often you scroll through your mobile phone while in the office. 
Do you use it in front of your manager or when he/she is not around.

Scrolling phone in office.

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I really liked the concept. It has best of both worlds. Easiest way to create content is audio, and consume is text.

However, I think it will suffer because it might not promote controversial stuff or negative comments.

Humans have a negativity bias. Name-calling, insults or blind hate, are things that no one likes - but also things that no one can look away from. And those engaged in it can't easily pull away. 

One of the reasons why Grapevine is so good because in an anonymous forum, people might be less likely to step in and stop negative behavior. People either promote propaganda of one company or to spread shit about other companies.


Even X is infamous for rewarding conflict. Most negative comments come from anon folks. elafda get the best engagement.  


The audio first social media app Airchat has a second order effect that people can write way more mean shit than say it aloud. Plus it's not natively anon. 

I really wish it does work, in a world where there's so much negativity, we need airchat to thrive.

Why Airchat might not work

Director Product

I have been managing teams for multiple organisations for quite a few years. It saddens me to see most of the organisations trying to exploit employees by paying inadequate compensation. Gender pay gap exists for real. I want to file a PIL and maybe get a law passed to ensure all employees are paid fairly. Can someone help me get in touch with a good lawyer who can help me file a PIL?

Looking for a lawyer to file a PIL

Engineering Manager

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There is one guy on my team who handles feedback so poorly that they engage in narcissistic tendencies. I've seen them bootlick the right people due to their closer proximity and utilize crony wordplay to show that they are harmless. When in fact they try to advance their own agenda to further their own gain. Every company on their resume is a checklist and the megalomania in them is palpable. 

Unfortunately most people on the team are too naive and won't realize it until it's too late. Which means by the time he is done using everyone else, he will bounce and do it at their next company while completely f'ing over their current coworkers.

Anyone had a similar experience?

[Story] Is one of your coworkers a complete sociopath?

If one goes by Grapevine, everyone in tech is working under duress and is being paid peanuts for it. Appreciate that this anonymous platform offers a safe space for people to let off some steam, but increasingly, starting to feel that regular exposure to such toxic levels of negativity is much worse off for mental health.

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