It happens so I joined an IT service organization in the year 2017. It was my first in-house project. I have worked for service oriented IT companies before, but as a consultant. I was outsourced rather sent outside to a client place to work. In other words, I was working and have worked for a product development organization all these years.
Now it happens so, this in-house project made me realize what a notorious shit hole an IT service company is. Full of quacks, people with no heart, no interest to work, roaming in the building carelessly.
Sad to see, when I enter global village IT park to go to my office, or during lunch, I see hoards of people just sitting, doing absolutely nothing, chit chatting. I wish not to mention which organization, but it happens to be one of the other competitor service oriented organizations in Global Village known for hire and fire policy. So many people simple sitting, doing nothing just speaks of the amount of work being given to Indian IT.
Never mind, I had worked very hard over the last 6 months, written lots of code and established such a fine working relationship with my German Colleagues, I'm still proud of that. But the sad part is some of my allocated task couldn't meet timeline.
Some of the allocated task of my team members didn't meet timelines. It had lots of loopholes and complaints, escalations from German management. So my manager considered this.
When I told him I had got equally good appreciation, he told they don't count. Only escalations count but not appreciation. In english language its called hypocrisy!
So, all my hard work went to gutter and got a rating of 2/5. It means moderately meets expectations, or rather needs improvement. Any person who gets this rating never gets variable pay or bonus. But I got them. I got my variable pay 100% of what the company allocated out of the given amount. What an irony.
On one side, I need improvement, on other side, I get a bonus reserved for performance. I guess this happens only in a service oriented organization.
The best part is I still enjoy working with Germans, I think, the only reason for me to stick with my current service oriented organization, is the fact that, we have a very good relationship with onsite team and equally bad relationship with our offshore team plus its close to my home.
5 members of my team have quit. All of whom had problem with Indian management and not a single complaint against German management.
I think service oriented organization works just like this.
What I feel is mid level management is like a mid layer fat on a human body (result of Bengal famine?)
Muscles at the shoulder or biceps help us to lift loads, muscles on legs and thighs help us propel or walk long distances. But mid level fat does absolutely nothing, helps us to sustain famine situation?
So mid level management is like this fat, absolutely unuseful for an organization. Just adding complexities to our working environment.
Oh I forgot to tell you, my organization management is very jealous of the fact that I'm too close with German's sitting over here and they aren't able to achieve the same level of closeness. How little they know its all about hardwork and intellectualism.
Somone please tell them, quacks can only quack!
Cheers,!
PS - I wanted to write this for a very long time, but exercised restraint and lack of time. Today I'm in good spirits :)-
Now it happens so, this in-house project made me realize what a notorious shit hole an IT service company is. Full of quacks, people with no heart, no interest to work, roaming in the building carelessly.
Sad to see, when I enter global village IT park to go to my office, or during lunch, I see hoards of people just sitting, doing absolutely nothing, chit chatting. I wish not to mention which organization, but it happens to be one of the other competitor service oriented organizations in Global Village known for hire and fire policy. So many people simple sitting, doing nothing just speaks of the amount of work being given to Indian IT.
Never mind, I had worked very hard over the last 6 months, written lots of code and established such a fine working relationship with my German Colleagues, I'm still proud of that. But the sad part is some of my allocated task couldn't meet timeline.
Some of the allocated task of my team members didn't meet timelines. It had lots of loopholes and complaints, escalations from German management. So my manager considered this.
When I told him I had got equally good appreciation, he told they don't count. Only escalations count but not appreciation. In english language its called hypocrisy!
So, all my hard work went to gutter and got a rating of 2/5. It means moderately meets expectations, or rather needs improvement. Any person who gets this rating never gets variable pay or bonus. But I got them. I got my variable pay 100% of what the company allocated out of the given amount. What an irony.
On one side, I need improvement, on other side, I get a bonus reserved for performance. I guess this happens only in a service oriented organization.
The best part is I still enjoy working with Germans, I think, the only reason for me to stick with my current service oriented organization, is the fact that, we have a very good relationship with onsite team and equally bad relationship with our offshore team plus its close to my home.
5 members of my team have quit. All of whom had problem with Indian management and not a single complaint against German management.
I think service oriented organization works just like this.
What I feel is mid level management is like a mid layer fat on a human body (result of Bengal famine?)
Muscles at the shoulder or biceps help us to lift loads, muscles on legs and thighs help us propel or walk long distances. But mid level fat does absolutely nothing, helps us to sustain famine situation?
So mid level management is like this fat, absolutely unuseful for an organization. Just adding complexities to our working environment.
Oh I forgot to tell you, my organization management is very jealous of the fact that I'm too close with German's sitting over here and they aren't able to achieve the same level of closeness. How little they know its all about hardwork and intellectualism.
Somone please tell them, quacks can only quack!
Cheers,!
PS - I wanted to write this for a very long time, but exercised restraint and lack of time. Today I'm in good spirits :)-
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