Rant about my office

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Sourav

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Dunno if its the correct place to post this, but i am seriously upset with my office today. And loads of people here are working too, so just wanted to come in here and :@ :@ about my stupid office. Here's what has happened so far.

No use telling which company i work for, but still, its among the "SO-CALLED-TOP-THREE-INDIAN-IT-GIANTS". Anyways, for the past 3 months i have been kept as a buffer resource. Simplified, that means, no work. Zilch. Zero. None at all. My Project Lead has been assuring us (our team) that we shall be put into a good project soon. Not that i am any eager to get into one, as i don't know sh** about coding and stuff, but still, some work would be better than no work at all.

Pay no doubt sucks, and to top it all, usage of internet is so damn restricted, i can only use google and thats about it. Everything else is blocked. And , my system admin it seems is some sort of a freaking geek. No matter what proxy you use, within a few days it gets blocked. I mean, its ok that you have blocked sites like orkut and gmail and yahoo mail and yahoo 360 for obvious reasons. But , even damn proxy sites are blocked!! :@ :@ I have never heard of such a work environment. Surprisingly, few days back, it was on TV that my company happens to fall in the top 3 companies to work for in INDIA :rofl: Man, only if they knew how wonderful it is to work here.

Small incident i'd like to recollect. I was transferred from Hyderabad to Chennai in April'07 . During a transfer, we are put up at the company guest house(which was definitely not a guest house by any standards) and we are issued a relocation advance thingy(to take care of settling down in the new place and all). I raised a request for getting the relocation advance, and i was denied it instantly! I looked at the reason and nearly fell of the chair. The payroll people rejected my claim for relocation advance because they said i wasnt transferred:S :S . Finally after begging and squealing and cribbing to my Project Lead, i managed to get it sanctioned. took me 3 weeks to get something which should have been sanctioned in a few hours.

Again, if you dont submit the bills towards guest house stay(yes, its not free, we have to pay for it initially, and then get the bills reimbursed) the entire relocation advance is deducted from your salary. I couldn't submit it in time as the morons at the guest house had given me a bill without a bill number, so it was taken off my salary. So i spent another month without salary, barely making it through. When i submitted the fresh bills, my claim for reimbursement was rejected again! :@ :@ Reason?? They said i wasnt transferred:rofl: :rofl: again. Again after a lot of squealing and shouting, i have managed to get it sanctioned, lets see when do they transfer it.

And today i am really really upset:@ :@ . Being an ardent Potter fan :ohyeah: i was so hoping to watch the movie this weekend. But my stupid company's network was down since morning, cuz of which i could not book the tickets for this weekend. And when i called up the network people, they said everything's working fine. Bunch of liars :@ . *&%$#@*&#$%

Sorry if this post seems offensive. Mode please dont ban me in case its that offensive. Thouroughly upset today people, so decided to come in here and rant.

How do you people feel about your workplace?
 
Only 3 Months??

Welcome to the IT World mate :D.

My previous company was among the Top 4 India IT Giants(If such a thing exists) and was the Best Workplace to work for in a Hewitt Survey(Why am I not surprised?).

The bills and $hit thing is routine, get used to it.

So, you are free??

Start solving puzzles, preparing for CAT/GMAT/GRE etc.

And start pursuing one or more of ur hobbies seriously.

As for the "Bench" thingy, its better to be on the bench than work 12 hour day :(( (lol,joking), but do consider some of my advice written above :).

All the best!
 
lol. my workplace is good. AC is the problem for some hours.. but net access to any site all the time.. cant access PRON as admins come to know.. got printer/scanner attached to my pc and have the most powerful pc. others ur celeron with 128mb ram. my pc is p4-2.66 non HT with 256MB that too is friggin slow when i use photoshop :P anyways.. good service of tea/coffee whenever needed.. every morning i get to drink nimbu paani and get fresh.. and paw wadas and other nashtha at every evening... its fun. always have to order peons to deligate most of the work and manage many things at times.
 
There are a ton of people on the bench at large corporations... if you want a real challenge, find a startup to work for ;)
 
nVidiaBeast said:
^^ i didnt get you
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I suggested he find a startup company, where he might have to do the work of 2 or 3 people... versus 3 or more people doing 1 person's job at a huge corp. That happens because large companies over-hire all the time (they have the $$$ so why not!), for many reasons.
 
Uhh..why would anyone want to do 2-3 times the work for not the same pay ?

..its not like these so called startups are offering stock options are they.
 
my office is ze best , i have 2 computers , a tv is next to my computer , i can take a break whenever i want , i can sleep whenever i want , i can play , surf , pron ,chat , you get the drift ... do whatever i want and my bed is just 2 rooms away ... :P

i work from home if you guys get it :P
 
Uhh..why would anyone want to do 2-3 times the work for not the same pay ?
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To get more experience maybe, also the pay can be really good and above all teh promotions there, they say are superfast.

Who so evers office sux and is d best, please mention the name of the company, pretty please....a fresher begging to know something :D
 
@Sourav, if you are really really unhappy, just slug it out for 3 more months and start looking for other offers within the 6+months exp. category.

Hope the company didnt make you sign any SLA
 
IT companies are like that only its better to be on the bench trust me i was like that earlier when i joind but when the work pourd in i had to spend several nights in the company and wud not go home for 2-3 days was in the same clothes and undies after that they dont even grant u extra leave if u spend the night in the office working

Trust me dude its better to be on the bench than slog ur A** off
 
Ero-Sannin said:
IT companies are like that only its better to be on the bench trust me i was like that earlier when i joind but when the work pourd in i had to spend several nights in the company and wud not go home for 2-3 days was in the same clothes and undies after that they dont even grant u extra leave if u spend the night in the office working

Trust me dude its better to be on the bench than slog ur A** off
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All this at the age of 19 ? Seriously u are missing out on coll life :no:
 
blr_p said:
Uhh..why would anyone want to do 2-3 times the work for not the same pay ?

..its not like these so called startups are offering stock options are they.
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Who said the pay is the same? And stock options are a major part of your package at a startup. I've worked for startups only to gain the experience I will need when I start my own company ;)
 
i think ero said he hasnt been to college in 2 years now :P

i much rather slog as a fresher and get experience, then chill later as i want to
 
hmmm... good. I'm enjoying every moment of my college life. Though spending on a rig is very difficult, no cash ever, I always find myself short on cash.... aah, what am I babbling about, u guys know all that.... just trying to enjoy while I can.

And I'm glad I'm never gonna have to work in an IT company...lol
 
Well thats what happens in the so called Indian IT Gaints. When my friend joined Infosys, for the first 8 months he had no work at all. Then the next year and a half he worked like 12~16 hours a day. Also recognizing and rewarding skills is very poor in these companies due to the massive number of employees working. My sister is working for Satyam and she as massive amount of work there without proper recognition.

As for me, I decided very early that I am not going to join any of the Indian IT Gaints. I didnt even bother to apply or attend interviews for the same in campus recruitments.

The company (MNC) I currently work for is a major product (software) developer (Windows and Mac) in the Publishing industry. The strength of the company is hardly 1500. Theres enough work for every one and as far as I am concerned, I work from 10 AM to 7 PM and very rarely I have had to work more than the required 10 hours per day. The work is still challenging and you get the satisfaction that millions of people are going to see the code you have written in action.

I have the satisfaction that my skills and good work were apppreciated and aslo been recognized as one of the top/important contributers. I have also earned more than 35k in the form of spot bounuses in less than 2.5 years.

As far as pay packets are concerned, I cannot say its the best in the industry like in Microsoft or Adobe, But still and I have the satisfaction that mine was almost Quadrapuled in just 2.5 years (which is a decent feat considering that I have been working at the same organization and not shifted.) and its among the top if not the best. Last year, I got a record increment of 90% because of recognition of my performance as being exceptional. This kind of recognition and rewarding just simply does not/cannot happen in the so called Indian IT Gaints.
 
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