1. Variable pay - this is used by companies to harass employees and nothing else - at least with fixed pay, you get your month's due AFTER you have worked hard for the month without pay. Note that employees resigning lose the complete variable pay. Thus, losing variable pay is just a threat to the employees and nothing else. 2. Creches and all are fine - mostly in European companies - these are the best companies to work for. American companies are exploiters and in India only for the cheap labour and nothing else. As the costs are increasing, they try to cut costs by whatever means they can. 3. Most companies recruit so much that there is no parking space and damage to vehicles is normal - we love our vehicles - the companies should understand that. 4. The same excess recruitment means less seating space and competition for seats - this is unhealthy even for the employee and the work culture. 5. Companies have a tendency to harass employees who protest (on logical grounds) by giving them work that is considered inferior or by not 'favouring' them when a good opportunity arises. 6. Overtime is often 'expected' wihtout clocking the same which means that people are encouraged to lie. However, without the record, the employee can never argue that he did overtime. 7. A whole year's work can come to nought if you fight with your manager the day before assessment (even when it's his fault) 8. BAsically, Indians lack the respect for human life and human values.
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by Kaushik Das on Feb 03, 2008 09:31 PM Permalink
cont... 8. ... that is why people like narayanamurthy are respected because they were less greedy than the others and were open to the idea of other people becoming millionaires. 9. This is not true of most companies - satyam, for instance, has pathetic employee satisfaction and huge regionalism (unlike what appears from this writeup), same with infy (although it's slightly better), TCS (this is the mother of all pathetic companies), etc. Amrican MNCs are just marginally better - they do have better policies but they know how to circumvent policies if need arises - the policies have those open ends with clauses like - board approval or board discretion. Wipro appears to be a good candidate as I don't see many of them leaving in a hurry.
European companies appear to be the best. If possible, join them.
