Hi-Tech Bribery - Recruitment Business in the Current IT World!

Just wanted to share this with folks around. I was thinking ‘Do such things happen?’. How offensive it would against the company if its employee takes bribe to fulfill the opening. He/ she who took bribe along with he/ she who bribed for the position will be sacked immediately and would be black listed in NASSCOM, if found guilty. I know corruption & bribery is there everywhere, but this is like ‘selling’ the jobs. OMG!

Why should one bribe for getting a job? I could think of only one reason – looking for a break in something in which he/ she doesn’t have any experience and which pays way much higher that what he/ she used to get. And why would one take bribe for filling an opening, again one reason I could think of – a sick and money minded nature of that person who is ‘selling’ a job taking ‘disadvantage’ of company’s trust on that person. We should be very careful with and keep distant from these kind of encounters, lodge a complaint against them as well with Company’s Compliance & Legal departments. Agree/ Disagree?

Below is the recent email from someone about ‘selling’ openings, which is awfully unprofessional, especially in the current IT market.
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From: Me
Date: Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 6:35 PM
Subject: Re: We have opening for your profile
To: XXX YYY XXXYYY@gmail.com
Who are you and where did you get my email address??
That too 'selling' jobs to people from an unofficial email address?
I will be lodging a complaint against you with Cyber Crime.


On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 6:31 PM, XXX YYY wrote:
Hi
We have an opening for your profile we are charging 3 months Salary
If you are interested please send me your updated resume i'll call you
Regards
XXX

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I've come to know that one of my colleagues at my current work place did take a bribe to fulfill an open position. I just don't have any proofs for that, else I would have made his life tougher.

Not just this, I've heard that of late, TCS did catch hold of it's employee who took bribe from a candidate for filling up an open position. He just got sacked immediately and black listed in NASSCOM.

 

Each company, no matter big or small, should keep an eye in this recruitment field as well, without blindly trusting its employees. There should be multiple levels to be followed in the interview process before confirming the candidate based on just an interviewer's opinion. Only then these inappropriate and irrelevant recruitments can be stopped and worth candidates will be considered to fulfill a position.

If you can't go to your management to complain against the person who took bribe from you, lodge a complaint against that person/ organization in http://www.ipaidabribe.com/. Someone will be truely listening to your frustration/ anger :)

 

 

PS: The pictures are taken randomly over Web and are not mine.

Motivation @Work

Just wanted to share with you my opinion on how important the motivational factors are @work place. Motivational factors plays significant role in keeping up the spirits of an employee and you know, that a motivated employee is one of the key factors for a break-through in the business. I'm not happy with my current occupation though I am contended with my work and pay.

Just 'work' and 'pay' aren't the only factors that motivates an employee, there will be so many other ways for an employee to get motivated. To name afew:

* Team Outings: Company Sponsorship or Team's Contribution - helps in filling the gaps among the team members, if any.
* Rewards & Recognition: May be once in a Quarter - highlighting the special achievements of an individual/ team towards making the business effective.
* Birthday Goodies: By the Company - Can be Anything, not crossing the budget constraints.
* Work Satisfaction: Reduce the Idle Time - utilize the resource(s) in all possible ways when the employee comes forward, keep them busy.
* On-time Pay: Salary, Appraisals - No one likes to wait for long to get their payments.
* Complements: Emails complementing an individual's or team's efforts.
* Surveys: Also, there should be some way to take each employee's opinion on how they feel in his/ her current role in terms of their satisfaction levels, in the form of Surveys (of course anonymously as an option) which helps management to take any necessary action(s).

There will be many other ways to keep an employee motivated and not limited to the above specified.

It all depends on the Company's culture and the retension policies which are in place. In my opinion, a company which doesn't work on retaining it's employees will have high attrition rate and may not attract new people to be part of it's family.

Any thoughts? More motivational factors that you feel are important as well? Your inputs are welcome and will be highly appreciable.



PS: Pictures are taken randomly from web.

Does 'Professionalism' means 'Tying-A-Tie'?

~ Does appealing professional outlook means wearing a tie? ~

Recently I've got an internal email at my work place with a header 'Formal Dress Code - Grooming Session'. After reading it, I couldn't control laughing louder, reasons behind are many.

OK. Let me explain - a company which doesn't follow corporate ethics properly and yet pretends to follow, doesn't have that right to talk about professional outlook.

Just by looks, people around are not going to get attracted towards the company. There are many things which gives a company the fame and name.

I am totally 'pissed off' with my decision on why I chose to join here, reasons being enormous:

Just to name a few:
1. No corporate decency with HR personnel. As a corporate rule, an HR (any employee within the org) should respond to any email from other employees within 24-48 Hrs (48 Hrs being max). But here, you keep emailing HR (most of them, not all), no matter how many, you neither get any responses nor actions taken w.r.t those emails.

2. People who have joined in this company since the beginning have no ethics and got a very heavy head weight. Just like 'FROGS in THE Well'.... they don't know how things are happening outside the company and how this company can be developed. All politics..

3. The company's culture - argh!! I just hate it. No motivational nor hygienic factors, which are important for one to get a feel of 'going to office'...

4. They keep the charts in restrooms and other places about security measures on H1N1 (Wash your hands and blah blah....). But when asked for providing paper glasses, no response, no action has been taken. They just keep one single glass for each floor. And you can imagine what kind of people would be around and how they would use the glass. I myself have seen few senseless people.

5. Toilets - OMG!!!!! I don't wanna talk about those stinking public toilets (within the office building)

6. For coffee, so often you need to go around all the possible floors in the building, because you get sugar on one floor, milk on other floor and coffee powder on some other floor. No housekeeping methodology in place to satisfy an employee.

7. Air conditioning - hmm... interesting!!! They switch off the a/c in the lunch time, after 6 PM and blah blah - power savings - no matter people are still working hard for the company's benifit. So irritatingggggggg!!!! You feel like you are some laborer working in a construction company.

8. Rewards & recognition - well, fuh-get it!! You get one when you lick your boss’s ass. Your skills or performance doesn't work :P

9. Oh yes.... the IT team, you better know how to install a printer in your system than most of those team members. One person took a hell lot of time to install a printer in my system and yet with no luck. Also, you will not get proper responses when you email them, your emails seems to be routed to 'JUNK' folders.

10. The chairs at the work stations - you definitely will get a very bad back ache if you sit on them and work. If asked to change, no response............. they may think 'it's not my job'?

11. When you have been moved from one place to another, you will be moved with no prior notification and you keep searching for your PC and pedestals....

12. BTW, when you try escalating 'any' issues, people will start taking a personal 'grudges' on you :P If not officially, of course personally (like a ladies chit-chatting).. LMAO...

If asked, they say it's still a developing company, as a word-of-mouth :0 WTF!! It's over 10 Yrs old and by now they should be knowing how to motivate it's employees :P And with all these bloody stuff within, they insist to tie a tie just to look professional!!

What the hell, professionalism doesn't build by the way you dress, but there's much more to be professional! Now-a-days BIG Giant companies are declaring 'Casuals' as a dress code, and these people are still in early 1900's.

OK now, trust me! I have a very big list of such things to call this company very 'UNPROFESSIONAL'. I will definitely be a monkey soon (you know what I mean :P).

Anyways, all this blah blah is to throw my frustration outta mind and let people know how one gets frustrated with these kind of cheap behavior 'of' the company itself.

I am decent enough for not revealing the company's name here, but I'm sure people (who are/ were with this company) will get to know whom I'm talking about . OMG!! This is my worst experience I've ever faced in my professional experience.

Really, whatta company I've chosen!! Pity me...


Cheers!!

PS: The images are taken from web randomly and are not mine!!