IndianMaze

I may not agree on some points of the author but a worthy reading none the less. Sandipan Deb Fri, Feb 6 04:35 AM What does it feel like to be on the way home from work one evening, preparing yourself to tell the family that you don't have a job anymore? I have friends who have been through this, yet I can only vaguely imagine what goes through a man's mind in the moments before the inevitable confession to wife, child, parents. No one who hasn't gone through that moment possibly can more than vaguely imagine the feelings: the anger, helplessness, guilt, shame, fear. If one had a choice, one wouldn't want anyone to go through that experience. But I am also a person who has personally sacked perhaps two dozen people during my career. In the last three months, I have let three people go, on grounds of incompetence. But today, we know what the reality is, what the rules that run a market are. I have known young software engineers switching jobs thrice a year just for...

This one is for the spirit of the most popular R situation world is in! This situation has given the opportunity to all organisations on a silver platter to do what they want and blame it on R. There are cases being reported that replacements are decided at lower costs and then current set of people being asked to go. Travel levels being downgraded from business to economy, economy to budget airline and budget airline to train to correct the cost base. Salaries and "perquisites" are being "rationalised" (euphemism for cost cutting) with a vengeance. There seems to be a case of sadistic pleasure that owners/bosses are having in squeezing subordinates/potential employees. The balance has suddenly shifted. But are they forgetting that reputations are built over a longtime but tarnished in a moment. A company is known to have downgraded the perquisites of all managers and recently the CEO was seem as wining and dining in a plush top class restaurant with his cronies. Wi...