My first company's big boss still haunts me
So I joined a company as a fresher. Initially, they had quoted a CTC when they came for placements and later reduced it by 40% citing Covid.
I felt there was no integrity on their part and decided to leave the moment I joined. Now with four months, I had an offer, and I resigned. While serving my notice period, a family member departed and I was devastated. I couldn't hold my tears back and wanted to take work from home for a few days. To this, the big boss denied at first. Then he said I could take leaves but my notice period would get extended. After further persuasion, he said, I would have not be given FnF and I would have to pay the company for not serving the notice period and they denied me an experience letter. The HR was no good either - small companies! They tried to break me every way possible when I was completely devastated. I somehow held myself together and completed my notice period after which I was relieved.
Fast forward to 3 years, I had applied for a small startup - they had a promising product. The CEO and the big boss were batchmates apparently. The CEO reached out to the big boss for my review (without telling me). And the big boss, as expected, gave a very negative review.
Thankfully, the startup looked forward to hire me given my expertise in the field. But how low do you have to stoop to ruin someone's career and be so insensitive all along.
I am pretty sure, he did the same with another startup who was keen on hiring, asked for my documents and later ghosted. The VP there was a friend of the big boss.
It's been worrying me for a while, so wanted this out once and for all.
Now that I am a manager, I give balanced feedback because i have learnt that people who probably do not thrive in one environment might do brilliantly in other setup. Who are we to judge?
P.S. If you are ever in position of power, be neutral and empathetic to your juniors. Kindness goes a long way!
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Sometimes such encounters teach us - what exactly not to be, when you become a manager. Your big boss wouldn’t change as he would have years of experience and he shaped this way through all these years. Only lesson you can take is to treat others with empathy.
Great your a good human , I wish you to achieve all the greatness and serve ppl.
Sometimes we should just leave the places which are not worth. to see a new world
I also never give any bad reviews to my subordinates.
I never got a chance to say goodbye to x employers because of negative remarks
however I have been getting better positions and organisations continuously.
This world is cruel...
That's the worst part about Indian companies. Toxic work culture. You don't see any engineering department this toxic in any other country.
Idk why people don't treat toxicity as something unacceptable. It's all normalised here. They just say switch companies that's it.
I think some meetoo movement but for toxicity instead of sexual harrasment is required in India. All companies will have 40% vacancy after this.
With that same situation I am also going
Great message from your end. I think it’s quite overlooked that if an employee is not working good enough it might not be a productive environment for that employee. In those cases, the best you can do is to move asap. Otherwise it’s bad for both employer and employee.
I didn't know your previous boss has this much power so it's best to leave out a position from your resume if you got laid off or fired huh? I didn't know firms contact them for feedback and assumed the opposite party would be neutral while giving feedback to maintain good will.
How do you guys combat this especially in markets like these?