Software Engineer

I died reading this. Because everyone is true. And I hate it. But....yahi hota hai :(

Brand marketing manager

We've an epidemic in workplaces. Everyone just wants to appear to do things  so the hard things don't get done

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We've an epidemic in workplaces. Everyone just wants to appear to do things - so the hard things don't get done

Much as we might like to think of organizations as rational machines - the reality is that companies are social organizations and people interacting with people is the way decisions are made and how work gets done.

Yes! And...

The office is a theatre, and work is an unfolding narrative on the stage

Product Marketing Manager

The office is a theatre, and work is an unfolding narrative on the stage- Grapevine

Most workplaces are like this. It’s all facade.

Product Manager

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Picture this: a typical review meeting, and out of the blue, the manager decides to dub Rohan as the star of the show with a casual "Rohan, tu chutiya hai." However, in a sudden plot twist, our manager does a 180 to save him from the wraith of HR, proclaiming, "tu akela chutiya nahi hai, ham sab chutiya hai jo ye sab kaam karte hai!" 
It's like the office drama you never knew you needed – a rollercoaster of emotions right there in the meeting room….

Traits of Toxic Manager-FinTech

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Full fledged PPTs and Business Cases are being made for initiatives that will be forgotten about in 3 days, everyone trying to appear busy while adding no real value.

Have seen this across multiple departments where people are spending full days doing god knows what. 

This activity becomes more frequent after first round of layoffs, post which people are trying to justify their jobs by doing essentially nothing.

‘Fake Work’ epidemic

Corporate Strategist

I graduated this year and have been working as an intern in this company for a few months, full time now. And at first, everything seemed okay. People were okay to talk to, the managers were polite, etc. But as I've gotten to know them better.....all I see is the silent drama that goes on about the most petty things. My 35-ish manager has the ego of a 15 year old teenager and thinks he's hiding it well by talking 'nicely'. There's this whole unsaid division in the team where one side is the suck-ups and they're all best friends with each other and have this "us and them" thing going and no points for guessing, the manager loves them. They'll literally share every little thing with the guy, basically snitching on the rest of the people. And the other people are just at odds with the manager and his gang for whatever reason. The other day, the manager passed a comment about 'masturbation' on some other guy. This kinda thing really makes me not want to work here.

Apologies if this feels unstructured, I'm tired after a 10-hour work day.

[Rant] Office politics is very draining.

Is office politics a perpetual thing at every workplace?

Human resources

We had just gotten done with the morning standup and a bat entered our office. 

It started flying everywhere above our heads. Just like it happened in the show 

Most people ran out of the office, but some sone cold people stood there working and unaffected 

Lastly, the bat is still somewhere in our office. It hid itself somewhere in the ceiling and hasn’t been located 😭

An actual scene from the office happened to us today

Founder

The title is pretty self explanatory but I'd like to give some additional context.

I work at one of the stable, good biz unicorns of India. Good WLB, chill manager and work recently started to get interesting ( I joined ~10 months back). I have been getting bigger tasks and asked to look at the overall processes and monitoring.

The reason I'm looking for new roles is not because I'm a prick and too good for WFO but I've come from working for a seed stage startup for ~1.5 years. So, whatever work I get here I do it in 1/2 or sometimes 1/3rd the discussed timeline and mostly the rest of the time goes in playing office politics (design, product clarifications, minor updates and QA signoffs) which I strongly believe can be done from home. 

Tl;dr - I get bored in the office and feel like I can use this time to learn something, build something or you know just some zazza 💀

TC - 22 + 3 (I believe decent for 2 yoe?)

Mandatory WFO - Should I look out for new roles?

Frontend Engineer

I am 26 now. And started my career in 2018 when i was 21, and from my first day till now I am doing a wfh. Initially it felt good as you get lots of personal time, no travel time and expenses. And then in covid while people where panicking switching to wfh, I was already adapt to it very well. But lately I have now started seeing some negative  impacts of it.
1- Social life is at stake as I went to study outside my home town and almost lost all my connections here.
2- No personal interaction with people on higher position than you as that helps a lot in ones upbringing.
3- Following same life style for years and years.
4- Poor physical health and mental health being in a room for 8 hours of work, 8 hours of sleep and 2-4 hours more depending on other tasks.

Adding to it now i feel it makes more sense having a office job which makes you feel more lively and a part of society.

Work from home- A unordinary lifestyle

Team lead

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I work at an early stage startup, and I just can't get work done at the office with all the distractions. I always end up coming back home and getting back to work again to meet the deadlines. I really want to get most of the work done at the office so that I can avoid working at home as well. 

Are there any tips to increase productivity and actually get the most shit done at the office? I really need help 😭

Low productivity at the office

Frontend Intern

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I always heard about the office politics but never faced. But in my current company, I got caught up with the petty dirty office politics.

Manager keeps his ass safe by not taking any actions. He’s also one of them though. People take complete advantage of his inaction and lick his boot to safeguard themselves. Behaviour takes u-turn when the manager is not around.

Mediocre behaviour and no intent to do better.

One of the worst experience of my life. Have to get out.

Office Politics derailed trajectory

Investor

Most of my peer colleagues are working late at night and on weekends as well. But I don't want to do it, now my manager (program manager, product manager, personal manager) is questioning my productivity and trying to compare me with the same level folks. How long I'm going to survive and what is most likely to happen PIP or Layoff?

In this situation, what do you suggest I'm kind of fresher.

Need your suggestions 🙏

Retention manager

Speaking out your stress helps to attain mental peace, discuss out your problems in comments and let people suggest you the solution!

Office Politics

DevOps Engineer

Lately it's been really hard trying to cope up with derogatory comments and people trying to pull you down.

I build/refactored some of our codebase and things go south in terms of performance at few places. 
I realised the mistake and fixed the performance bottlenecks that happened because of me in least time possible. 

But people still look down on me on and manager keeps passing hurtful comments about the incident every now and then.

Moreover there's worse happening fellow people start blaming you for the performance of code you haven't even touched. You are just utilizing some function in your codebase written by some other person.

I don't know how to handle all this and what should I do to avoid this? 
Mistakes happen, bugs go on prod, things can break but as far as once everything stabilise, we should move on.

How do you guys deal with Office politics.

Office manifesto we should have

Consultant

I've recently come across this phrase several times on this app. And people also mean different things when they say this phrase. Someone meant product requirement discussions and meetings. Someone else meant dynamics among team members in a team 
I wanted to understand what people mean when they say this. Especially in the context of saying a company is bad to join because of 'office politics'. Looking for a switch so wanted to get this clarified

Office politics

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Real Estate

Ever wondered how many love stories orgs have killed? Right at the start, in the middle, intentionally adding to the cold start or making the friction more pronounced. Think about it: corporate policies, unwritten rules, and so to say "culture" might have ended more love stories (and still is) than we care to acknowledge.

Imagine two colleagues who hit it off -only to be told that their relationship violates some archaic HR policy. Or worse, they keep it hidden, living in constant fear of discovery. Why? Because the org demands a separation of personal and professional lives that’s unnatural and really there's no switch to human connection. How do it fucking turn it off?

I mean you spend more than half your day at the work place right? falling for someone out there - Happens. Then, wouldn't it get to you that you have to say something but cant say, have to wait, but cant wait, and the distractions and more. I have seen most sides I guess - exceptional performers getting together, one high one low getting along - good outcomes, I have seen public spats too - really ugly ones. I have seen folks in depression. I have seen the founders being shaky with the gossip and more..

So you got to ask:
- Does this really add to morale? who really wins here?
- Does it take you away from your goal?
- Why are folks so divided on this topic?
- Is it about control or culture or someones belief system coming in the way?
- What’s the real impact on employee retention?
- Do we really trust our employees enough?
- Can we redefine professionalism?
and What if we embraced love stories? 

Moral policing is not the answer. Neither is we dont know what they would do next - no one in the right mind is so horny that they bang right on the office floor (at least I would like to believe that) ... So.. is our insecurities too high, our principles too shaky, or we just like to be really really convenient. 

Your take please.

Office Love Stories

Human resource

Discussion has shifted to productivity in work from office vs work from home debate. I feel it’s a narrative which is kind of created by employers and their pr firms.

In reality it’s more about the power dynamics between employers and employees.

Employers are reclaiming control over their workforce by making work from office mandatory. By enforcing work from office policies, companies are subtly reminding employees of the limited job market, making them feel tethered to their current positions.

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