Dear Windy,
I am a software engineer working for a reasonably "young" company in
Delhi. I hear that you call companies other than your
own "start-ups". I dont know what you imply by that - we have better
projects that the trash you lick off the streets of Atlanta.
And we pay and treat our employees far *far* better. In your next shpeal,
please define "start-up".
Lets not even talk about how your manage your people - the Human Rights
commission would have a field day with you. You
hit them with Steven Covey one way, and then cut their pay for reaching
office 5 minutes late. Is that what you mean by a
"paradigm shift"? I had mine ! You make them work all night and then
give them a 50 rupee dinner. Did you ever hear about a
word called "hypocricy" or perhaps "double-standards" ?
You don't pay your employees - you are worse than a non-profit organization,
more like a government one. Where does that
money go ? To fund the Honda City of your head ? Who slaved for that
money, and who got it eventually ? How are you any
better than Microsoft ? What are you giving back ? You ARE just a training
institute and should remain so. You have flooded
the Indian market with substandard educational courses which the simple
naive masses lap up, hoping it will help them reach the
software Mecca. Like Microsoft flooding the market with trashy software.
It didn't need a Godzilla or Bill Clinton to prove that
"size does matter". Keep off software development. One MS is bad enough.
Mr Wind, if we are "start-ups", then yours is a "shut-down" company.
I agree that a Government Organization like yours has security, I mean
anyone working in a company that prizes and worships incompetence IS secure.
It IS secure for a technical person to be working in a company where his
seniors are
pulled out from the bottom of some unemployment heap, or were moldering
for decades in some forgotten department of some competition-phobic Govt
organization. And non-profit organizations like yours are also fashionable
to work in, especially when you tell the neighbours and donation collectors
and slum dwellers.
But for challenge and success, you need to take risks. Just since professionally
managed companies like mine (we arent run by a bunch of Santa Clauses)
pay well, you shouldnt feel insecure about it.
We have *real* work, so we pay well.
We employ capable persons, *even at senior levels*, so there are no overheads, no cross-subsidizing of salaries.
We don't treat our technical staff like pawns on a chess board. They
will not be jumped around and kicked about from client to
client or project to project or onsite to offshore, as though the "world
is a game of Chess" ! Gosh, how frightful the thought
is. The world is a world full of people with lives, aspirations and
careers, people who deserve dignity, respect and care. Especially our dedicated
software programming community.
How much did you pay for V Anand's brain ? How will he play Chess after
taking his brain out, so that he could promote your
training courses. What a collosal loss to the country!
Dear Mr Tucker, if you are reading this and one day you surely will,
noticeably pissed though you may be, you need to develop
some sort of conscience to start with. There's no such thing as a free
lunch and your chaps wont give it to you much longer.
Clean up your act.
Or see yourself becoming "just a training institute". The McDonald of Training. One billion students fleeced.
Mr Wind and associates, there is a very simple law in Nature -- that
of hyper-parasitism. Hyerparasites do *not* survive. The
damage that persons like Billie and you inflict on mankind, however
widespread it may be, never lasts long. One day you will
feed on yourself. This is written in the very fabric of the universe.