Wo Lunch wala mere sath bahut baar hua hai 🥺🥺 5 pm and I'm still working with no food kyunki Lunch tak deadline thi

I don't eat lunch, I just say, "I'm still working on it" just to push the deadline

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Kal post Kiya, aaj 4 reports ke liye 4 shabd use hogya 😭

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 de...

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?

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What are some common stereotypes you've all encountered in Indian corporate culture?

I'll go first; the meetings that are never ending (and could have easily been an email).

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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?

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

Kal phir office 🤬

Do you catch up weekly or monthly?

Strategy & operations

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One thing that I did not know about corporate world before joining it

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@president_trump's meme really made me do it 😂

Hello people, 

Hope Monday is bearable :) 

Welcome to the watercooler: the place for any conversations that feel a bit small to create a dedicated post. Manager acting shady today? Had a heavy weekend and still not recovered? Office food was stale? This is the place to share anything random.

Look forward to hearing from you all :) 

- The Unpaid Intern
Disclaimer: For legal reasons I must confess I do get paid

Watercooler: 26th Feb

Intern

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- Tell me, What do I need to do/ what do you expect me to do?
- Tell me, What do I need to do when?
- Tell me, What do I need to do when, and why, and report to whom and who will give me feedback?
- A boss who doesn’t breathe down my neck and sends email at 2 AM
- Compensation that makes sense, doesn’t make me cry in the shower, and requires me to side hustle
- Opportunities for growth that don’t involve waiting for someone to retire
- Learning and Training resources that's beyond PDF and don’t make me feel like I’m back in school
- Being heard, not just nodded at
- Recognition that’s more than a pizza party
- Onboarding that makes sense and exit that is respectable
- if you dont want me here - just tell me, dont just walk up to me one day and say "we are done"

Bonus:
- Can we please get some decent coffee in the break room? Because if I’m going to be here for 8-10 hours, I need something better than brown water
- Mere referrals ka karte kya ho?
- Sach batao ESOP kyun diya and kya isse paise banenge?
- openly favouritism kaun karta hai?

Honest Employee Wishlist

Human resource

Hello folks from FAANG and other top companies, what gift did you get in Diwali (or did you get cash bonus, like my friend from Ericson got 35K)?

By the way I got a cabin trolley, okayish!

Diwali Bonus/Gift in Google

If today was supposed to be your last day, what is the first thing you'd do

Data engineer

My manager messaged in the group that today we can do WFH. But I have muted that group and didn’t saw it, and now I’m sitting in this empty office. Dispression ho rha hai bros 😐

Came to office when there is WFH 🥲

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I normally use mouse ziggler and take sweet nap in afternoon whenever WFH. 😌 
Anyone else has some mindbowling tricks for such slacks ?!

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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?

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