Friday, March 03, 2006

profiles of a frustrated mind- my stint with a indian software gaint

Statutory Warning


This piece of writing is not at all for people who are jingoistic towards the organization, nor for people who are more than necessary optimistic .It is exclusively dedicated to all those poor associates, asses/workers/masons rather., who have been facing the brunt, have been exploited as a ritual, and have nothing more than frustration, rage and vengeance in their minds.
I, would, on their behalf treat them all equal and a victim of a serious physiological epidemic –the BMF disorder. For those who are new to this term, it stands for Bulk and Mass Frustration. Well, in the welfare of all such people , I had made up my mind long ago to write something, containing all the anger, miseries, grievances, something that clearly reflected our minds, thoughts., vagaries etc.But the real impetus to write was provided by my Great Guru “GGP ** ”.,who is whole-solely
responsible, for the few moments of happiness that I have been able to steal from destiny.
(no pun intended).


This piece of writing is thus dedicated to all my poor associates, whom I will be addressing as GUFAS- grossly underpaid and frustrated associates. and obviously to my guru ghantaal “ GGP ” **




** No names are being revealed because of security reasons















Well , Lets play a game. You just have to guess something based on the clues.The first one right there:

Highest percentage of dissatisfied employees. Got it ? No. so have another one.

Pay-checks reflect penury. Not yet….Highest attrition rates. Not still, last one…..employees never ever given any sort of benefits. i.e No gifts, No incentives, No bonuses. They all are hypothetical terms, bloody management lingo that is never ever put to practice ..… Now you all should get it… Right.. No names please!!!




Ok , lets plunge a little deeper into the details. Lets talk about the resources and infrastructures

But , first please remember this golden rule, which keeps the company running.


Company Profits (CP)
Blood left in associates(BL)
Employee grievances(EG)


So putting these terms to the HR and getting the manipulated result as:

CP =k EG/BL where k is a constant of proportionality called the Employee Dissatisfaction index, value varies from 0 – 100

So the final golden law (as HR says) that holds good for the company is

CP= 100 EG/BL


No wonder it is still widely accepted.



Before putting an end to this page , I would offer sincere thanks to the great guru ghantaal,referring him as GGP .ji because all this mathematics used is strongly influenced by him as he is a master at this art.



Let’s talk about LEAVES at Mithya !!

Talk about casual leave and the Management at Mithya try every possible measure to discourage the associates from applying for leaves. Applying for leaves is an automated process. Once you apply for a leave a mail is sent to the upper GUFA who has every possible right to exploit you(no pun intended, just your group/module leader.
He makes it a point not to readily approve it and sees the mail or pretends to see the mail on the last day, 5 minutes before you are planning to leave for home. Finally, he makes you change your plans, ruining your plans.yeah,that’s all. Even the leaves /plans you make to travel home are skillfully manipulated to make them Business Travels(onsite!!),that too when you don’t get to claim your expenses. Great!! Is it not?

Well talking about laptops at Mithya is such a topic that I can write pages and pages about it. One more true incident. This is about a project which Mithya got from the US. No wonder!! Truly ONSITE.

Many of the GUFAS. Went to the client side carrying the dreaded black boxes- yeah laptops. I got to overhear a part of their conversation.

G-1: Hey!! I am going onsite for implementation at the client side.
G-2: Great news buddy. What is the onsite compensation?
G-1: Few thousand cents yaar ;)
G-2 : seems a liberalization of the HR policies.
G-1: Yeah! But I know it is going to be a nightmare yaar.
G-2 : What?? Why?? (bewildered expression)
G-1: They are giving me a laptop this time L.A nightmare come true.
G-2: Oh No!! All hells broke loose. May GOD be with you dear.

G-1: Well buddy. Why fear when we are walking on a bed of burning coal ;)









The story when our dear G-1 has reached onsite……………..

It is the first day,the most important one.He is preparing himself for the kick-off meeting. Very fine!!So just in order to revise the key-points of his presentation he takes out his big black box(laptop).But to his utmost shock, he discovers,there are no power plugs(the fat ones used in India)—Indian ishtyle ones.,rather they are the ones which are completely incompatible with the old beast(thin ones!! Used in US)the Black Box is also helpless because it is not supposed to run on battery.(against company-laptop policies)
But its meeting time .So all the associates at the client side rush to the conference room with their sleek trendy laptops and our poor GUFA has to carry a big pile of papers(the printouts of his presentation)
The client seems to take pity on our poor GUFA and gifts him a laptop till the time he is there.
What else left to say?

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