Chaos. But this is toxic chaos. Maybe u’ll get so used to it that u start caring less. But if it’ll impact ur health then change job asap

Software Engineer

Your manager is the 'Chaos King'! Let's bring 'Shaanti' in life, buddy. Bedtime is for dreams, not bhasad.

Analyst

Because my manager brings up a new bhasad every day, EVERY DAY! How f up was your company before I joined!  Also, he will text these new "things to take care tomorrow" on WhatsApp at 10 pm, so I wo...

Because my manager brings up a new bhasad every day, EVERY DAY!
How f up was your company before I joined!

Also, he will text these new "things to take care tomorrow" on WhatsApp at 10 pm, so I would remember them

Now I cannot even sleep properly

What do you call Bhasad in English?

Corporate Strategist

What do you call Bhasad in English?- Grapevine

Write a corporate horror story in three words.

Copywriter

Boy oh boy!

Senior Product Designer

Welcome to Ask Grapeviners's Private Community

Mine was okay, started managing a new product/platform (matured one), lots of moving pieces. 

Kuch samajh nahi aa raha hai 🤷‍♂️ Still leading the calls with clients 😬 and leadership 🫤

Living each day as it comes

How was the workday?

Product Manager

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

Do you catch up weekly or monthly?

Strategy & operations

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Manager texts me on teams after work hours (we don't have login and logout) ,if I don't respond. He will text me on WhatsApp.
Do irritating,how do u guys maintain boundaries

Boss off hours shenanigans

Anyone on the same boat as me?🤦🏻‍♀️

Monday Blues😵‍💫

Tech lead

Anyone who completes the whole workday apply process should directly go to 2nd round of interviews.

Kya Bawasir hai bhai ye 😂

Workday bullshit.

When it's 5 pm before long weekend and your manager enters your area with this look

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

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How many companies still have 6 days working? I am in robotics/manufacturing in MSME, I have a 6 day Workweek, is it a general trend in manufacturing or general trend in MSME?

6 day Workweek

Robotics engineer

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

Finance Operations

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So this hiring manager tells me "I only hire people who are 110% committed to the job" mid-yawn. Big one… like you could see his molars, his cavities, his fillings, his tonsils, caught a glimpse of last week’s lunch stuck in there somewhere, and I swear for the first time in my life I witnessed someones soul leaving the body. Anyways .. so I’m nodding like I am not distracted with all that and I care, and he starts scribbling his requirements for the position. I kid you not - 5 words, max. Couldn’t even tell you what he wrote. I’m thinking "Okay, maybe the guy’s a minimalist. Keep it simple. Right???". He then gets up, picks his bags and leaves the office. 

It was 4 PM.

Should I ask him - Dude - where’s your 110%?
PS: He’s got a team of 11… maybe he’s taking the 10% from each of them to make up for his 0%.

Thoughts?

What’s your take?

Human resource

Not in a bad way, like not calling me something, but openly says MC BC etc 

I am not used to this kind of work environment, but they are 5-7 years my senior and there is no way for me to give feedback

They just insert in random sentence like “Yeh data toh data hua hai bc”

Is this really a common thing? What would you guys do?

My manager openly abuses in Hindi

Hello everyone.

Starting the Watercooler for today - the place for all casual conversations and thoughts that might feel too small to make a post out of :) 

Look forward to hearing from you folks!

Daily Watercooler (17th July)

Founder

So thing is  In last 1 week my manager/project lead has been threating that you will have to work on weekend if you dont complete your task by friday and put the the task to testing.

And this boils my blood soo damnn much . But as a person who is on lowest level i cant do/say shit. I just disagree with him and dont argue.
What would you have done .[ practical advice only]

And thing is i do all my dev work on time even earlier almost everytime and he just goes around and threatens everyone with this. Soo annoying thay dumbfk needs to get rekt .

Work on weekend?!! Advice needed

Data engineer

I'll go first: "I want you to focus on doing good work and not on how much money you're making." Achchha aur mera rent kaun dega?

What's the dumbest thing your boss has said?

I thought I was the only one frustrated with meetings until my colleagues also mentioned they were not able to get work done because most of the day was spent on meetings

Plus our boss (CEO) loves talking, anyway the meetings are agenda-less. He stretches 30 min calls to 2 hours and then has the audacity to question the productivity.

Cannot tell me this, he gets very touchy when feedback is negative for him. And then writes sarcastic messages.
Also, who wants to take up fights with person who pays your salary

What to do in this case? I'm tired of working 12 hours each day

Too many meetings, and our boss is one yapper

Recently, a friend joined a bank. He was late to office a few times. To “teach him a lesson”, manager “changed his desk”. 

When he asked the reason for this, manager said “this is your punishment for coming late to the office”. 
I mean, is this school-level micromanagement rampant in your org as well?

What do you call Bhasad in English?

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