Sometimes what you see is not what you get, in fact its most of the times these days. Reality is a hard pill to swallow. Its better we accustom ourselves with reality (instead of talking crap or rather diplomacy)
Its about one such organization where an IT employee worked. It was located in one of the small localities in Hosur Road. It was situated in an IT park nonetheless, but it was surrounded by clothing companies, like the one's which stitch clothes for export. It was very close to NICE road of Electronic city and one could escape to Hosur, Tumkur, Kengeri, Bannerghatta road and where not. Couple of times, we had escaped Silkboard junction and directly took NICE road to Kengeri/Kanakpura road.
People coming from KR Puram faced traffic hurdles, but rest all seemed to be fine with the arrangement. Plus it was at a slight distance from the main road causing issues locating the building.
But top leaders (Indian) of the organization felt otherwise.
- They thought, they had to move to a technology park.
- They thought, the working next to clothing companies did not provide the right marketing presence required to attract the brightest minds to work for them.
- They also thought working next to a world class organization would rub off some of their charisma on to our employees.
- They thought the new IT park was located at a central place and would reduce most of the traffic woes.
This resulted in the IT organization being moved to a IT Park close to Marathahalli. It costed 3 times the rent paid to this current building on Electronic City. What happened after the shift is nothing short of a Bollywood movie.
I prefer not to write about it. The charisma rubbing off from the neighboring companies phenomenon went to the gutter, but what really rubbed off from the neighboring IT companies was sure, the smoke and ash, which the continuous chain smokers left each day and night!
And the biggest irony occurred when the VP of the organization came all the way from US to India for a business visit. The IT office generally functions from 11 am to 8pm. On almost all days during his visit, the roads on Outer Ring Road / Marathahalli were choked. People coming by office shuttles came as late as 1 30 PM when the login time was 11 AM.
Most employees were late and the office resembled a barren desert during his visit (11 AM to 1 30 PM). It must surely have painted a rosy picture of productivity to him. I am sure the Indian think-tanks would have been very pleased at this sight!
After all, what you see, may not be what you get.
Cheers,
Its about one such organization where an IT employee worked. It was located in one of the small localities in Hosur Road. It was situated in an IT park nonetheless, but it was surrounded by clothing companies, like the one's which stitch clothes for export. It was very close to NICE road of Electronic city and one could escape to Hosur, Tumkur, Kengeri, Bannerghatta road and where not. Couple of times, we had escaped Silkboard junction and directly took NICE road to Kengeri/Kanakpura road.
People coming from KR Puram faced traffic hurdles, but rest all seemed to be fine with the arrangement. Plus it was at a slight distance from the main road causing issues locating the building.
But top leaders (Indian) of the organization felt otherwise.
- They thought, they had to move to a technology park.
- They thought, the working next to clothing companies did not provide the right marketing presence required to attract the brightest minds to work for them.
- They also thought working next to a world class organization would rub off some of their charisma on to our employees.
- They thought the new IT park was located at a central place and would reduce most of the traffic woes.
This resulted in the IT organization being moved to a IT Park close to Marathahalli. It costed 3 times the rent paid to this current building on Electronic City. What happened after the shift is nothing short of a Bollywood movie.
I prefer not to write about it. The charisma rubbing off from the neighboring companies phenomenon went to the gutter, but what really rubbed off from the neighboring IT companies was sure, the smoke and ash, which the continuous chain smokers left each day and night!
And the biggest irony occurred when the VP of the organization came all the way from US to India for a business visit. The IT office generally functions from 11 am to 8pm. On almost all days during his visit, the roads on Outer Ring Road / Marathahalli were choked. People coming by office shuttles came as late as 1 30 PM when the login time was 11 AM.
Most employees were late and the office resembled a barren desert during his visit (11 AM to 1 30 PM). It must surely have painted a rosy picture of productivity to him. I am sure the Indian think-tanks would have been very pleased at this sight!
After all, what you see, may not be what you get.
Cheers,
