Currently its "leaving the company" season at Plexus. People are accepting offers from other companies and leaving this one. I was wondering that the "Leaving" season never ends at Plexus. Round the year, people are always leaving.. (And joining). The company itself is sound enough but people don’t seem to be happy. Why? Well, let’s keep this one till the end.
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Where to begin.. ??? hmmmmm
Almost one year ago, I joined this place. Within one month of my joining, two programmers quit. What a wonderful way to start a new job. huh ?
Then, by the end of 2006, three more had left. One left in January, Three in February, One in March (another one was fired), and one in April (not to mention two resignations in April). One guy will leave next week. and one guy will leave the week after.
Well, i played a game of my own and will leave this place by the Last week of June. Mentioning of June, There is another confirmed quitter besides me in June. Man,,. you must be wondering whether the team is so big that it doesn’t affect when a few leave the company. The answer is quite the contrarily. The team is a small one and leaving means that the work load is to be pushed on the remaining ones until a new hiring is made.. The management tries to hire new ones but people don’t accept their offer because they offer so less. (The primary reason, people are leaving this company)
So, with this situation. when a programmer leaves, the company hires a manager at *high* salaries. This really pisses me off. On one hand you guys are literally fucking the employees and on the other hand you are hiring managers no less than 100K a month and what are they doing ???? attending meetings that are NEVER going to be finalized, and yeah they themselves leave on time, and do other consultation jobs while what they give to us ??? force us to stay here ruining our personal life, don’t fucking give us enough money (as they say: You’ll get monkeys if you offer peanuts) and what ?
To, cut it short.. I am pasting the detailed explanation of my Resignation’s reason as asked by my management. I don’t know what they want to do with it, but won’t mind if they use it in the toilet when there is no water to be found… heheheh
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This document is just a collection of random thoughts. There was no intention to write an essay out of it and neither any such attempt was made.
- My decision of resigning was a resultant of many individual factors which; if considered independently are considered very insignificant but once combined, they proved influential enough to let me take a bitter decision.
- Perhaps the biggest factor to let me take the final decision was the “Money” factor. The difference in salary that I am being offered from my new employer is significant enough to topple me off my feet. After considering the difference I realized that I will not be able to make this much money even if I keep on working till the next financial review which is still half a year away. So, I considered this opportunity as a head start in financial terms.
- The burden of work was ever growing. Although I have never refused to take on any task, yet it never meant that my “over-cooperative” attitude is to be exploited. A change in attitude is going to be fruitless as the perception has already been created. The only possible escape that I thought would give me temporary relief was to …..
- The organization must realize that an employee has a flip side of life that he should return to after he is finished with work for the day. Whether it be the family, the studies, sports or just relaxing chatter with some out of the office friends. As long as the organization portrays a constant possessive attitude towards the employees, the retention problems will always arise. I felt the same issues in my case.
- What I heard from some folks that my new employer have better processes and that their HR policies are well defined as well. They follow work timings from 9-6. Although I am cautious enough to buy this but It couldn’t have been worse than the schedule I am following currently. And when you add the extra money factor, it all seems acceptable.
- I am also told that Saturday is a non working day (and in case one is working on client site where you have to work more than 5 days a week, you are paid for that day). You are also paid additional TA/DA when you’re working on client sites.
- There could also a possibility of me going abroad for some international assignments.
- The company will offer me Health/Life insurance after my probation period of 3 months is finished.
- The reason of informing in advance was for informative purposes only. It was just intended to let the news reach the management before I take any definite step. It was never intended to get into a negotiation/bargain phase. I personally do not subscribe to any ideas in which one bargains for better compensation by waving an offer letter from some other company. I consider such an act as un-ethical and blackmailing. I would certainly NOT like to be called Burhan “The cheap Blackmailer”. I would rather suggest that the company should review financial packages proactively rather than reactively. Maybe they can think better of those employees who are still committed to work here.
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I will write about the discrimination game (as we guys call it) in the next post.
Burhan: Rants and Beyond... 