Okay so I have been told this many times, be cordial with everyone, you never know whom you may end up working later in life.  I'm 100% OK with being cordial, but OK with being treated like a footm...

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Okay so I have been told this many times, be cordial with everyone, you never know whom you may end up working later in life.

I'm 100% OK with being cordial, but OK with being treated like a footmat everytime someone needs anything 

End up not responding, not having the network especially when you need it

How to get out of this loop?

P.S. Strictly professional terms, not personal. Never be friends with ex

Never know where you end up

Consultant

Never know where you end up- Grapevine

Becoming too much friendly and little close with colleagues is good or bad thing? 

In my company/team most the people are from same age and mostly male. I found there is too much unnecessary discussions and arguments and worse thing is you have to respect each other. 

Just curious because today my junior almost disrespected me and I was very confused how to react.

Too much friendly with Colleagues

Frontend Engineer

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

Here’s mine,
Care deeply about any work that you touch, give your best and more.

The effort really shows, especially when you can solve something better than what they hoped for.

[Thread] Grapeviners 🍇? Drop one lesson from your learnings at work.

Product Manager

Tell us how and when you realised that you need to move away from the people around you for your betterment.


There's a saying, "You're the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with."
This unknowingly shaped us for periods.

🧵 when did you realise to change your circle

Growth Manager

We have all been told by our managers… Speak freely. It’s confidential, we’re working on YOUR growth plan. 
We have been gullible to believe it.
What are your top mistakes and top things that you should have not told your manager?

Corporate mistakes

Software Engineer

Hey guys,
So I'm a senior BTech CSE engineering student from a Tier 2 college in Karnataka and I will be interning at a Top MNC in Bangalore over the summer for 2 months. 

Any advice for me? As I will be entering the infamous corporate world as a new chapter in my life, I wanna know how the dynamics in corporate works and what I should prepare for. 

Thank you lads.

Any advice for a student who will be joining his first company?

As title says, I have resigned and my boss who is also the founder of the company has set up a 1:1 session with me. 
I was fed up of him because of his micromanagement and stupid asks. Basically he was just being a person who think if I have paid, I can ask anything from my employees. 

Now,  I wish to tell him all of this in 1:1 and say how he is not at all worthy to run a employee friendly company. 

Do you all think it'll be a good idea? Will it impact me in future in any way? Will my next joining be impacted by this?

Telling Boss how bad he was during Resignation

Welcome to Data Scientists's Private Community

I have been working in HSBC GSC HYD for more than a year and as this journey comes to an end now, I would like to share my experience with you all. 
The first thing that comes in our mind while joining any new company is about their workplace environment and their HR policies. 

There have been quite a few incidents that happened during the last one year which I neglected thinking "Isn't this what corporate life feels like?" I neglected everything to the point where it became unbearable for me and made me go through some serious mental health issues and panic attacks. 

The most recent incident that I would like to share with you all is when I was ethnically humiliated by one of my colleague.

The incident happened on 22 April 2024 when I was subjected to ethnically insensitive remarks by my colleague AA. The exacts words which was used by him is 'EK CHAMAAT MAARENGE, BIHAR PAHUCH JAOGI' which exactly means - I will slap you so hard, you will go back to Bihar. 

I did follow the protocol and informed my manager AT about the whole incident but nothing came out of it, except for a team meeting where I was told that my colleague did not physically assault me, it was just a hatred comment which I can let go of. 

I reached out to the concerned HR team and filed a POSH Complaint for the same, after weeks of the incident, on 3 May, I received an email from the HR team to give feedback for the same without any updates on what action was taken. 

I did let go of everything thinking that anyways I will be leaving the office soon as I am currently in my notice period when another incident happened. 

I was on a smoke break when VKR, AMO from the UK CDD team approached me and made objectifying remarks on me. The comment he made was 'Tmhare jaisi ladki hum aaj tk ni dekhe hai, akele pura UK team ka naam kharab kr k rkhi hai.' which means - He has never seen a girl like me, I have ruined the name of their team. I did ask him the reason for saying such things to which he replied 'tmhare alawa kisi UK team ki ladki ko hm ni dkhe hai cigarette pite huye' which means - he has never seen any girl from the UK team smoking cigarettes. Later while going back inside the office, I saw him eating tobacco and spitting on the wall inside the office premises. 

My LWD is 13 June 2024 and I hope this post reaches to everyone who are currently working in HSBC and to the people who are planning on joining HSBC GSC HYD before I leave. 

Source: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nitika-kumari-10996b182_workplacewellness-positiveworkculture-employeewellbeing-activity-7202948416249753601-P9mK?

Workplace Toxicity at HSBC

Story time- When I left my last organization, I was really pissed and hence released all my anger in the exit interview. Told everything - the politics, loop holes, what needs to be changed, etc. 

Now 2 months down, I got to know from a colleague that the same HR who took my exit interview, asked my ex manager, "ISKA FnF CLEAR KARNA HAI KYA, YA OR KHEECHE THODA? "

Yup, she said that. My ex manager was good enough to not entertain it and asked her to clear it ASAP. But the audacity of the HR!!!!!! 

I so feel like mentioning the company and THE HR'S NAME but let it be. I am sure with such practices, she ain't going anywhere. 

Share your dark HR stories below!👇

HRs Exposed!!!

Broke up in 2020, thought of giving all my energy to my job as my career won't wake up one day and say I don't love you.

Jan 2024 update - Got silent laid off from EY.
Anyone else going through the same trauma?
How to heal?

which is worse: Toxic ex or toxic workplace

External Audit

You know those type of people? The ones who believe they know everything, everyone else is beneath them, but in reality are extremely stupid?

The ones who will never admit they are wrong even if you show them why? The ones who will try to demean you at every step of the way cause it gives them pleasure? The ones who you just want to punch as soon as you see them in office?

Yeah, I know you’re thinking about atleast one person while reading this. My question is what has your strategy been in dealing with these people? 

So far in my journey, I haven’t faced any sadistic manager, so that has been great, but the people, my god, some of the tech guys in my teams have been absolutely the most frustrating human beings I’ve encountered.

Ofcourse the first thing to do is to take a step back and reevaluate whether if it is you who has been the actual asshole all along, but after that, if you are still convinced that the other person is nothing but the living embodiment of satan, how do you guys go about dealing with them?

How do you guys deal with annoying assholes at work

Software Developer

Timely completion is better than delayed perfection!

read that again.

Corporate lesson learnt in 20s #1

Hi all, I'm (kind of) fresher into the corporate workforce, ~2yrs of work exp.

What are some corporate etiquettes that a person like me should learn and/or be aware of??

It could anything but not limited to... from way of saying things to the things to be said to how to behave or how to work around/handle the power dynamics.

Corporate etiquettes

Inside sales manager

Talking to my team members gives me anxiety. 
My brain freezes and I can't work to my fullest. 
Just a random vent

Talking to my team members gives me anxiety

I will go first, it doesn't matter if you really work hard on a project, in the end only result matter, no matter how much efforts you made for it

Lesson you have learned from Corporate

Why? I don't know.
I honestly didn't care at the beginning, but having groups always helps, I guess. 

All they want to do is sutta which I don't. 
Either that or something I don't relate to at all.

I feel excluded by my coworkers.

Account manager

There is a senior colleague from another team who calls me on my mobile or on whatsapp whenever I do not reply to him on Slack. Sometimes post 9pm. Even when I have set OOO status on my slack and teams. 

The reason I do not reply to him is because he wants favours for his work. It's purely a lack of skillset. He doesn't google but expects me to spoon feed him. I initially helped him, but he has taken me for granted. Eventually, I stopped replying to his messages whenever such requests came. I do not ignore the important requests. 

What do I need to do? Any suggestions?

Contacting colleagues post working hours

What is one of basic things you realised too late?

Founder

How do you guys manage exiting an org (voluntary exit like resignation) while maintaining relationships with your seniors?
I feel like the moment I put down my papers my bosses react aggressively and get pissed, don’t know how to handle that.

Clean Exits from org

Project manager

What are your thoughts on making friends at work? I don’t just mean acquaintances, like deep, intimate friendships. 
When I started off I was given an advice to never make relationships at work be more deeper than it should be. 4 years later, I still follow that to the dot.

What are your thoughts?

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