As a single man, I love my loneliness. 
 Relationship scares me big time

Product Designer

sigh!

Senior Software Engineer

sigh!- Grapevine

sigh! 😔

I've been working for the last 5.5 years in sales and projects. I kinda don't feel like doing anything anymore. Why do you think it could be? 
Things on the personal front are okay. I just find it hard to be consistently driven. 
This is my 4th company now. Got laid off from 2, and left 1 due to the pandemic. 30 y.o. now, single with an MBA with a niche specialisation from a decent college, which isn't being used anywhere. 
Had to take a pay cut while joining this one. Big chunk. Talk about ESI level salary. 
Feel a lack of growth in professional tools, and completely demotivated to even learn despite buying a million courses online, can't join FT cos obviously I can't stop working rn. (Sigh)

Sigh

Business Development Manager

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

Imploding after investors turned off the taps a year so ago.. investors spoilt the ecosystem chasing growth with weak business models.. disintermediation doesn’t always work.. neither does setting up models that impose costs and ignore risks …
the chickens come home to roost..

Agritech startups .. train wreck in slowmo …

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

Lately Ola's founder Bhavish has been discontinuing their dependencies on foreign products ranging from their own cloud servers to their own GPT's which people are specualting is just a wrapper over ChatGPT and lately launched their own Ola Maps which is itself a wrapper over OpenStreetMap. 

Will this benefit Indian Companies to compete with the global ones or will it just die down eventually. Ola folks can shed some light on it. 😁

What's your opinion on Ola's nationifacation of their products.

Ola is just doing big cost cutting. If cards played well they can be selling this as an API, cheaper alternatives to the big giants. Not the best but get the job down at a lower price. I am feeling optimistic about this for the only reason is Ola can switch back to the maps or chat gpt anytime they want. They are just building cheaper alternatives not something new.

Software Developer

There's a new post going viral on Twitter about Slice just copied CashApp's designed almost ripped off the entire content and design from CashApp. 

You can check websites of them both!

Ripped off

Project Manager

Software Engineer

The economy went down? Yes. Did it affect all kinds of companies? Yes

Did the banks fire any one? No 
Did the Railways fire anyone? No 
Did the media agencies fire anyone? No 

Did Large Tech companies and IT fire people? Absolutely yes 

Tech is the most ruthless-stupid sector that is so flimsy and short sighted that it doesn't care jack-shit about employees

Tech companies will pay employees large salaries in a heartbeat, they'll hire 1000s of them and then fire 100s of them in a heartbeat destroying careers. 

Sigh!

Tech has failed to be a good employer; Layoffs are just one example

Not the way it works. 
It's a function of how fast an industry grows -> The faster it is, the more you have to hire in advance, because you know if the pace continues, you'll need as many. 

Railways needs 5K people this year, they need 5K next year
Google needs 5K people, they need 7.5K next year (if things continue) 
At startup needs 500 people today, it needs 2000 next year (if pace continues) 

So when the pace does not continue, the impact is equally drastic.
Startup fires 25-30%
Google fires 5-10%
Railway fires no one.

Corporate Strategist

Growth Manager

I've been seeing a lotta posts where men are venting about not being able to find the right girl, so just wanted to know whether it's the same for women too

Here in Bangalore its hard to find a quality guy smh, (emphasis on quality). Dating apps are a dead end and even when you have organic “meet cutes” the men end up saying they want something casual and don't want to commit. 

How do you deal with this? Or rather, how do you distract yourself from these kinda feelings?

P.S:  don't come at me saying “its harder for men” - I'm sure it is lol I just want to know if there are women who also resonate with what I feel.

Women on GV - how do you find the right guy?

Content Strategist

This DSA is now getting on my nerves.
Frustrated as true af!

Unable to make
whether the concept is complicated or the faculty is making it more complicated!!!

🤟...😶‍🌫️...🤟

DSA gossips...!

Another self help guru turns out to be a fraud

Give me your crazy bangalore clubbing story

December 2017 
  
 Was clubbing with friends and one girl ripped apart the t-shirt of this guy friend. She then proceeded to rub alcohol on his chest. 
  
 Poor girl, the guys girlfriend was there and smacked her so hard on the head that she almost fainted. 🥴 
  
 I was so shocked that I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

Product Manager

Nothing more satisfying than rootless pidis being handed their a$$ to them. 

P.S. Sorry! I had to share this here for the political junkies. 

https://twitter.com/DanishKaneria61/status/1703477262161494495?t=zWN4NgAiqSlO9MlJWMb5sA&s=19

Abort the mission, this one a KILL!

Co-Founder

See a lot of intriguing/funny usernames here, and just curious what each one of them means. So thought of starting this thread.

What’s the story behind your username on Grapevine?

Welcome to Product Managers's Private Community

Everytime I open any SM app, I have advertisements lined up from various scammers/ex-Lavda/ex-lasun selling Product Management/Data Analyst and Full Stack Courses. 

It literally has made me delete most, if not all the social media apps. I'm just tired of these scammers. 

When I started in Product, I actually loved it. Now, it has become like Virar-Churchgate Local dabba with everyone coming and shitting up what was actual work. Even companies are hiring dogshit people who can't differentiate feature and bug from their elbow and ass. 

It is just tiring now. Everyone has now lost the plot.

Tired of PM Ed-Fluencers.

Welcome to Movies & Music's Private Community

I'll go first - 

Shut laptop, get in comfy clothes and watch Amar Singh Chamkila!
Imtiaz Ali after 4 years!!

What are your Friday plans?

Have to meet some arrange marriage prospects 🤧

Consultant

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

So I work in a new york based startup and they hired me as project manager. I am from tech bg with 1 year of experience and no mgmt experience. Completing 2 years in this company and have created processes from scratch to increase team size and team dynamics. There was one conversation which HR heard out of context and started politics with CEO. Now in my review their "trust" overshadowed my "performance". They even out of nowhere telling my leaves were not judiciary! Now i don't trust this company anymore. Already my managers were too underperforming and disappointing. 

There were many scenarios where I took in charge of anyone's absence and even in my absence took care of things. 

They giving NO raise !!! Not even something to match inflation!

I am feeling very exhausted with company's policy and CEO being nosy in each and everything. And too disappointed in company's "trust" definitions.

Talked to my manager and cleared out my performance. Talking to CEO in next days to reclarify their issues. 

Any help or word of advise???

Disappointed!!

Living in Bangalore is like participating in a daily obstacle course of stupidity these days. It's like the city is hosting the World Championships of Not Using Common Sense. Day by day, it’s getting crazy in here. People are literally just straight-away stupid.

Picture this: I'm in the metro, following the line like some good boii. But no, here come the backline breakers, sprinting ahead like they just got the memo that the free WiFi is about to expire. They won’t even have the patience to let others deboard from the station (bs ghusna hai sbko).

On the road: Small Aile is there, and these morons either walk in the middle of the road or walk slowly like they are going to maaiyat. There is no way to even overtake them.

One day a couple was literally just standing in the middle of the fucking metro entry gate, and all other people were going from sides. I was literally at my fucking limits; I controlled the urge to ask them that whatever shit they're discussing, if that is a national concern, then it’s okay; otherwise, please fuck around on the side.

And what’s up with this throwing garbage on the road thing, literally every morning on the road, tons of food, spillage, and disposals of whatnot can be seen. God, please throw it in the trash.

Rant! (Bangalore)

Lawyer

Security Analyst

Heard from a friend that he flew out to his office in the middle of the night from his wedding because mortgage backed securities started to crumble in NA during ’07 crisis.

Dude was bummed.

What is the worst thing your boss did to you?

Initially he asked me to fill his water bottle, bring snacks for him. Dint mind doing 1-2 times. But it was continuous with other juniors too.  
  
 Took a chance one day to spit on his water bottle and brought snacks for the whole team (20 people, kurkure and frooti).  🫢

Found this mail from two yrs ago
Was dating this guy for 6 years
who photoshopped someone's bike to show as own, begged his ex to take him back while we were 6 months old
I was so blind in love, accepted all apologies that came along - somehow he had reasons for what he did

Slowly I was tired of this, and stepped back
3 years after break up, he mails saying he has married (arranged setup) and told his wife about us - I congratulate (what else)
2 years after he sends this, Now I am literally annoyed. (P.S. Look at the time he mailed)
My MBA kicks in, well my mental peace does have a price.

Nonetheless, didn't get any response!

Glad I moved on and how!
*pat on back*

Friday Shitposting : Moving on from ex

Thinking of gifting a friend a handbag. 3k budget. Any leads would be appreciated.
I googled, but found a bunch of names. Don't know which one actually is good.

Also a mini rant. How are women's bags under 3k and men's bags ranging from 10-15k (likes of Samsonite/scarters ).

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