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you must have noticed people speaking against anything big/small issue that happens in the west but rarely say anything about issues in their own country.

are they afraid of the government?

you won't see any celebrity or famous person saying anything in support of farmers protest or manipur violence or any other oppression faced by people.

what do you think is the reason behind this mentality?

Selective/Fake outrage: Is this limited to the upper middle class?

Senior Software Engineer

I just don’t get the meaning of it. You work, you get paid. You love your work, your pay should make you happy. You can be a corporate bull or a slave by choice. 

So I don’t get it when people blame the corporate system. If you’ve got the mass in you, no one can enslave you!

What’s a corporate slave?

Product Manager

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Were you a Corporate slave before founding your company
What was the switchover point for you
How do you manage all depts in your company like sales can be difficult while also taking care of finance

Corporate Slave to Founder

Let me show you something, this is how these companies are treating their employees even in a full time remote role, they think if they hire someone and give them salary they can make them do whatever they want. One of my friends is working in some MNC and they are pushing their work hours everyday single day like 5-6 hours like its no big deal that too with no compensation/flexi leaves, one day they sent this link of Google meet 11:30 am to 5:30 am (18 hours) and then they starting doing this everyday, its like we were practically living at work, with bosses expecting them to pull 18-hours shifts like it's no big deal. And when he finally spoke up about it, they accused him of not being flexible enough. So, when the project was finished they laid him off by saying that he is not flexible n all, How can anyone flexible of working 18 or 15 or 12 hours. This kind of toxicity is happening even in big companies.
Remote role doesn't mean that you will sit on my head , make me join some 18 hour meet link and then do the tasks while being in the meeting so that the PM can interrupt me whenever he feels like it with his idiotic comment of:
"is it done"?

Employee Exploitation: The Harsh Reality of Corporate Culture

The more I age, the more I have started to respect my sleep. 
  
 Quality sleep > 5% "Handsome" Hike

Data engineer

Software Developer

Sad reality of corporate - What can be done to change it?

I've seen this only a couple of times as a hiring manager. 
  
 It was a bloody dogfight with the TA teams and Business Finance to get approvals to come somewhere near the market parity comp for experience. 
  
 The usual culprit is folks who don't speak up and demand that they be paid for the value they are adding ti the org.  Mostly due to a severe inferiority complex and lack of confidence to ask!

Sales Manager

Corporate circus

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

Program Manager

Software Engineer

Sharing something I saw on X. 

https://x.com/smb_attorney/status/1745609324544536778?s=46&t=75M9ooHyv6ZxcnXYHYGynw

I thought she asked the right questions and that Cloudflare team actually were just throwing corporate doublespeak.

Saw this. Thoughts?

Brand Communication Manager

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Low Salary, No recognition, Shitty work-life balance

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Is this your Corporate life?

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Tech spending has gone UP by a lot. These companies are playing on the USDINR arbitrage and still will choose to pay you peanuts so that they can enjoy insane profit margins in this business. You are literally being treated like a daily wage labourer here, the only difference is you are dressed up in formals. 

Let this be your call to start something new or switch jobs.

Why don't IT employees realize that they are being treated like corporate slaves?

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!

Slavery under Paytm

Rant alert: 

Have you felt the same way? How many years of work ex after which you started feeling this way? 

Stability and money I’m grateful for. But I hate the constant comparison and competitiveness among peers/colleagues. Makes me want to quit and do a Teach for India fellowship. A little corporate detox. 

Wish I had become an athlete instead. I know it’s not an easy life, but It’s the kind of competitiveness I’m inclined towards. Not inclined towards the kind where you compete with people to please a company that will never care for you as a human. But people fail to recognise that, lose perspective, and lose themselves too. People have no class in this shitty world. If I have kids, they’re definitely becoming athletes and not entering this hellhole. 

Most ironically, I’m borderline considering an MBA to escape the corporate life for 2 years, but obviously I’m aware I will only get entrenched further in it due to the degree.

Corporate is not for me

Oh man. Just hoping for the day i can quit it all. Right now on the blue pill, but ek din ayega. I'm convinced only sociopaths and people with no personalities can enjoy being in this rut. Lavda build something - it's just about keeping the hamster wheel rolling.

Brand Marketing Manager

Verified email screenshots coming from employees working at Skolar. 

CEO mass hires from colleges targeting internship opportunity crowd and promising them full time based on performance. Poor students fall in this trap.

Here is how the CEO, Muskan Rastogi makes people perform
- Promises office timing from 11am to 8pm but force employees till 11pm at night

- Holds the original documents of school / college certificates and uses that as a way to blackmail employees if they wish to leave

- Asks employees to pay from their pocket if they leave in month (usually by this time employees find the company is shitty toxic, but get mental torture that the company has certificates held)

- CEO Promises on time payment of salaries but has never come on time

- Deducts LOPs unreasonably if questioned

- Shouts and yells at employees to establish dominance at office

- Has zero empathy on employees.

Read the public email screenshots that are arranged into a single image for better readability. Name of the employee masked to protect their privacy.

More documents and proofs can be shared here if CEO continues this for future employees.

Toxic CEO spotted. 21 year employee shares her horror story

Is this accurate depiction of corporate life?

Been in this company for about 8 months. Company is great but there’s just this team that works on all the important things that’s absolutely hard to keep up with. They don’t share anything with us till the last minute. 
I was asked to share some copy for something and when I asked was more information, I was told that it’s “confidential”. I just pointed out that I can’t do anything about it if I’m not given more info. I’ve been begging for more responsibilities the past couple of months. I’m okay with mediocrity and just warming the bench for a few weeks. But can’t let my career take a fall with that. 
I’ve jumped between jobs too many times, I last a year at best everywhere and I want to stay here for a while and build up. But the more I watch them, making plans with the founders, doing their thing and hiring new people, all the while I’m here asking to be seen, it feels like this is just how it’s going to be. 
I get paid well, I spend only about 2 to 3 hours working everyday. Might sound like the ideal job for some but I definitely feel like if a layoff comes, I’ll bite the dust because I was not given the opportunity to be part of this group and did nothing important.

The core team feels like a gang that everyone else can never infiltrate

Growth Manager

Corporatisation can be generally referred to as standardisation and formalisation of a business firm along the modern techno-industrial lines.

This practice of corporatisation began in Britain during industrial revolution when big companies based on coal, iron and steam engine set up industries across England and there was a need for standardisation of business operation of a particular company all across the country. This later spread to United States (beginning from Cotton textiles and plantation firm having large holdings), France and Germany during 19th century.

As far as India is concerned, it has witnessed four waves of corporatisation 
 

First wave of corporatisation was based on Kolkata beginning with East India Company, which gradually opened up for multiple English companies after 1858 GoI Act. Later on several companies  of textiles, chemicals and heavy industries opened their offices in Kolkata, of whom many beginning to be owned by Indians too.

Second wave of corporatisation began in Bombay Mumbai when Manchester based textiles companies opened up their head offices in Mumbai in purpose of handling export of raw cotton from Gujarat and Maharashtra and importing finished textiles from England through Mumbai port. Later on several Gujrati Marwari textile companies opened factories and offices in Mumbai. Corporatisation in Mumbai went for a long period of time I would say, even after independence. It benefitted from spread of communism in Bengal, which made Kolkata unattractive destination for investment, and LPG reforms, after which companies boomed in India who subsequently only found Mumbai as most suitable site for office.

Third wave of corporatisation began in Delhi-NCR, Bangalore and Hyderabad coinciding with IT boom in India. Availability of talent pool became the biggest common factor triggering corporatisation in these three cities.

We are currently in fourth wave of corporatisation which is not limited to handful of big cities. Corporate world also streching their roots to multiple cities like Chennai, Vishakhapatnam, Ahemdabad, Bhubaneswar, Indore, Jaipur, Lucknow etc as well. Companies are opening their offices in other cities as well for managing their operations in regional level. Several start-up companies are also emerging.

In future companies likely to shift their peripheral operations involving technical staff in other cities and limit only managerial level tasks in respective offices in big cities.

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