IT Employees - How Tough Is Your Job?

[raksrules]

Do not really know. What ever inputs you get from here, never ever get into a company culture. Be what you are, and as a person respect your privacy and personal life, then only the company which gives you salary will do the same. If once in a while you manager asks you to sit for 12 hours to complete a client escalation, cool. But if you feel like coming home, and sleeping or writing posts on TE, choose us.

I am completely with you on this. I personally don't like sitting late hours and only and only if i need i will sit. I have a office laptop so incase work comes i can come home and still work.
I never insist my team members to sit till late and in case ever i will require them to sit till late, i will also ensure that i will sit with them.
People, especially bachelors sit through out the day in office here where i work. Their counter statement is, they can complete the required hours (my company requires us to complete some hours per day average) and being bachelors they don't have much to do at home as no one else is there.
In fact there are some stupid managers who use this statement against these people and say "Tum to bachelor ho...ruko office mein...kya karna hai ghar jaake".
I would appreciate if Indian IT companies start thinking above mandatory working hours and give freedom to their employees to work in flexible timings and preferably work from home. I am pretty sure more people will be happy even if they don't increase salary drastically.
Give us work life balance and we will be more happier.
One of the reasons why i loved being at onsite. :|

 

[booo]

is it "working for 12 hours" or "staying at work for 12 hours"

I've worked for service based companies for some time and I feel that there is never work to do. hardly few hours of work per day. the culture is bad but frankly there isnt enough work. its just irritating that you have to stay at work even if you dont have work.

on the other hand, in product based companies there is lot of work but there is lot of flexibility too.


whenever someone says they are working their ass off in a company like infy I dont believe them.

 

[Sei]

is it "working for 12 hours" or "staying at work for 12 hours"

I've worked for service based companies for some time and I feel that there is never work to do. hardly few hours of work per day. the culture is bad but frankly there isnt enough work. its just irritating that you have to stay at work even if you dont have work.

on the other hand, in product based companies there is lot of work but there is lot of flexibility too.


whenever someone says they are working their ass off in a company like infy I dont believe them.

One of my friends used to make up for his "required quarterly hours" by sleeping overnight once in a few weeks in office. :|

 

[sharktale1212]

I am completely with you on this. I personally don't like sitting late hours and only and only if i need i will sit. I have a office laptop so incase work comes i can come home and still work.
I never insist my team members to sit till late and in case ever i will require them to sit till late, i will also ensure that i will sit with them.
People, especially bachelors sit through out the day in office here where i work. Their counter statement is, they can complete the required hours (my company requires us to complete some hours per day average) and being bachelors they don't have much to do at home as no one else is there.
In fact there are some stupid managers who use this statement against these people and say "Tum to bachelor ho...ruko office mein...kya karna hai ghar jaake".
I would appreciate if Indian IT companies start thinking above mandatory working hours and give freedom to their employees to work in flexible timings and preferably work from home. I am pretty sure more people will be happy even if they don't increase salary drastically.
Give us work life balance and we will be more happier.
One of the reasons why i loved being at onsite. :|

This part so true. Have faced it during my time at my current company. Always wanted to slap the fellows who stay late for the sake of being there. Heck I even have a female colleague who got married stays late till 8.30-9.30 every 2nd day. Just pushing more and more work. Always completing strenuous, time taking work before time. And now they look at me as the sole defiant member of the code, feels like First Blood each day I go to office.

This actually prompted a huge incident at work. One of these times, a stupid TL promised 4 times the work (according to standard estimation used). The reason was simple: Due to the over exertion people put in each it was doable. On fighting (no discussion or argument) with him, he pulled a rabbit out of the hat - I was not only a bachelor, I was taking too many bathroom/tea breaks. After the fight one of the guys was so scared he took his breaks after 3 exact hrs (ignoring all the pressure building up in the bladder ). The plan was to get 5 ppl work like a donkey and get the work done. End result was: 5 more people were brought on board (without billing) to complete the work.
Most people dont even understand the law of diminishing returns.

So, @OP IT is not exactly the place to be if you want a proper work-life balance. And forgot abt your privacy too. If you take a leave without reason be prepared to be persecuted.

 

[blkrb0t]

I thought Software and Service based are two different categories under IT. So obviously I did not know IT!=Software.

So IT company always means service based ?

No, they include both. The Indians just assume as such.

 

[asingh]

So, @OP IT is not exactly the place to be if you want a proper work-life balance. And forgot abt your privacy too. If you take a leave without reason be prepared to be persecuted.

I think most Indian firms are like this, not only IT. See consultancy (I am into that); marketing and sales, IT (which we we are discussing), finance, PSC. Probably where there is good balance is the education line. Once the school is over you can go back. I know a friend, who specifically sought a bride who is a teacher. His reasoning was amazing. End-of-the-day, Indian managers (and management); really do not know what the concept of work life balance, actually is. And they deem fit, to question reasons for coming late and/or requesting leaves >=2 days. Or they will provide BS alternatives, like ask a cousin to do the work, catch a flight at night to your home town, some BS crap. Another aspect which has seen immense popularity in India is work from home. People were 'carroted' with this idea to lure them into better work life balance. What actually happened: Now professionals sit longer hours at home (even); for office work and come to office for meetings, and go back and work late night. Hail the VPNs, remote desktops and toll free bridge dial-in numbers. The icing on the cake is the official email ID binding to the smart phone in ones pocket. Slave to your company.

Any ways, you all take care, gotta open my Outlook. Jeeezzzzzzzzzzzz....

 

[eggman]

I thought Software and Service based are two different categories under IT. So obviously I did not know IT!=Software.

So IT company always means service based ?

Ya..There's Product based company (Like Oracle ,SAP, Adobe, etc..) and then there's service based company (InfyTCS) etc..

Life,pay and the quality of work is always better at a Product based company, but getting into one is a tough task as they won't mass recruit and all and interviews would be tougher.

But usually people there chill mostly, I usually come office at 10 and leave at 5...rarely staying past it :-D

But one downside is , hardly any onsite opportunities.

 

[sharktale1212]

I think most Indian firms are like this, not only IT. See consultancy (I am into that); marketing and sales, IT (which we we are discussing), finance, PSC. Probably where there is good balance is the education line. Once the school is over you can go back. I know a friend, who specifically sought a bride who is a teacher. His reasoning was amazing. End-of-the-day, Indian managers (and management); really do not know what the concept of work life balance, actually is. And they deem fit, to question reasons for coming late and/or requesting leaves >=2 days. Or they will provide BS alternatives, like ask a cousin to do the work, catch a flight at night to your home town, some BS crap. Another aspect which has seen immense popularity in India is work from home. People were 'carroted' with this idea to lure them into better work life balance. What actually happened: Now professionals sit longer hours at home (even); for office work and come to office for meetings, and go back and work late night. Hail the VPNs, remote desktops and toll free bridge dial-in numbers. The icing on the cake is the official email ID binding to the smart phone in ones pocket. Slave to your company.

Any ways, you all take care, gotta open my Outlook. Jeeezzzzzzzzzzzz....

Well in that case your friend has the same idea as me.

 

[dinjo]

is it "working for 12 hours" or "staying at work for 12 hours"


I've worked for service based companies for some time and I feel that there is never work to do. hardly few hours of work per day. the culture is bad but frankly there isnt enough work. its just irritating that you have to stay at work even if you dont have work.


on the other hand, in product based companies there is lot of work but there is lot of flexibility too.




whenever someone says they are working their ass off in a company like infy I dont believe them.

True i have seen people discussing about playing carrom and other games in cafeteria because they want to stay back in office and they dont have enough work , i have hardly encountered the no work scenario in fact my work place offers flexibilty to come and leave any time if there is no work i can even leave in the afternoon they have the motto that work should be done.

 

[raksrules]

True i have seen people discussing about playing carrom and other games in cafeteria because they want to stay back in office and they dont have enough work , i have hardly encountered the no work scenario in fact my work place offers flexibilty to come and leave any time if there is no work i can even leave in the afternoon they have the motto that work should be done.

Sadly not all organizations follow this and they fail to understand that employees will be far more happy if they are provided such flexibility. :|

 

[pradeep200417]

True i have seen people discussing about playing carrom and other games in cafeteria because they want to stay back in office and they dont have enough work , i have hardly encountered the no work scenario in fact my work place offers flexibilty to come and leave any time if there is no work i can even leave in the afternoon they have the motto that work should be done.

I used to work for one such organization before. Its usually the foreign MNCs which offer such flexibilities.
I could leave any time if i had no work. In fact i needn't come to office too, if i don't have work.

 

[raksrules]

I used to work for one such organization before. Its usually the foreign MNCs which offer such flexibilities.
I could leave any time if i had no work. In fact i needn't come to office too, if i don't have work.

I always envy such people.
God i loved onsite because of this so much (yes i am repeating myself).

 

[hareshr29]

In my previous job in a IT MNC company i used to play table tennis during working hours if there is no work it was too sweet........But after an year getting pink slip as there are no profitable projects was so bitter
Right now working as a business system analyst in a bank.....its peace time

 

[dinjo]

They dont really stress you on working hours and i work for one of biggest IB and at times i work from home when i feel a bit tired or I'm not well and whole team understands that , but i no onsite from here