Comments on: Ethics(good) and Ethics(bad) http://expertdabbler.com/2006/11/23/ethicsgood-and-ethicsbad/ Rombo nallavan Fri, 18 May 2012 09:00:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Prabu Karthik http://expertdabbler.com/2006/11/23/ethicsgood-and-ethicsbad/#comment-5561 Prabu Karthik Fri, 24 Nov 2006 11:33:00 +0000 http://expertdabbler.com/2006/11/23/ethicsgood-and-ethicsbad/#comment-5561 msp i guess every IT pro has a tale to tell abt long working hours. once i was coming home around 8 PM. And i saw my neighbour coming from office too, he never comes home before 11.30 - 12 inspite of being newly married. so i wondered how come he's home so early. his response astonished me. he's home early bcos he has a midnight flight to catch to germany. no prizes for guessing where he worked, Infy sholinganallur and ofcourse we'll have NRN and the likes give gyaan about people being productive for 8-9 hrs and go home msp

i guess every IT pro has a tale to tell abt long working hours.

once i was coming home around 8 PM. And i saw my neighbour coming from office too, he never comes home before 11.30 - 12 inspite of being newly married. so i wondered how come he’s home so early.
his response astonished me.

he’s home early bcos he has a midnight flight to catch to germany.

no prizes for guessing where he worked, Infy sholinganallur

and ofcourse we’ll have NRN and the likes give gyaan about people being productive for 8-9 hrs and go home

]]> By: msp http://expertdabbler.com/2006/11/23/ethicsgood-and-ethicsbad/#comment-5560 msp Fri, 24 Nov 2006 10:01:00 +0000 http://expertdabbler.com/2006/11/23/ethicsgood-and-ethicsbad/#comment-5560 Hi Prabhu, am an irregular reader of ur blog. Can't help commenting on this post //also neither the workers nor the copany have much regard for the worker's free time// I am not sure about the workers but the company has no regard. In the company I was working this was one thing that more than offset all the other positives. There were 2-3 new hires whom I was guiding. America call-ukkaaaga Adyar office-la okkArndhirukkaradhu en thalayezhuthu. But the new hires were just learning about the project at that time, so I didn't ask them to stay. Once my boss asked me how come I was staying back all the time whereas the new guys left early (adhaavadhu 7PM early-am ). The exact words he said was: " These guys are new to town. What will they do going home ? Let them stay in office and learn" I was too shocked to react. Not only was his attitude terible, but the fact that it didn't even trouble him to put it in words was even more shocking. Idhula tragicomedy ennanna, the project I was working on was about predictive analysis of HR performance :-) Hi Prabhu,

am an irregular reader of ur blog. Can’t help commenting on this post

//also neither the workers nor the copany have much regard for the worker’s free time//
I am not sure about the workers but the company has no regard. In the company I was working this was one thing that more than offset all the other positives.

There were 2-3 new hires whom I was guiding. America call-ukkaaaga Adyar office-la okkArndhirukkaradhu en thalayezhuthu. But the new hires were just learning about the project at that time, so I didn’t ask them to stay.

Once my boss asked me how come I was staying back all the time whereas the new guys left early (adhaavadhu 7PM early-am ).

The exact words he said was: ” These guys are new to town. What will they do going home ? Let them stay in office and learn”

I was too shocked to react. Not only was his attitude terible, but the fact that it didn’t even trouble him to put it in words was even more shocking.

Idhula tragicomedy ennanna, the project I was working on was about predictive analysis of HR performance :-)

]]> By: Prabu Karthik http://expertdabbler.com/2006/11/23/ethicsgood-and-ethicsbad/#comment-5558 Prabu Karthik Fri, 24 Nov 2006 04:25:00 +0000 http://expertdabbler.com/2006/11/23/ethicsgood-and-ethicsbad/#comment-5558 subha 6 hrs dhaan maximum. enna problem na we have this culture of taking calls in office after 6 in the evening. that adds immensely! also most of them are IT services based companies.cinema production madhiri dhaan. time is money for them. also neither the workers nor the copany have much regard for the worker's free time. subha

6 hrs dhaan maximum.
enna problem na we have this culture of taking calls in office after 6 in the evening.
that adds immensely!

also most of them are IT services based companies.cinema production madhiri dhaan. time is money for them.

also neither the workers nor the copany have much regard for the worker’s free time.

]]> By: Prabu Karthik http://expertdabbler.com/2006/11/23/ethicsgood-and-ethicsbad/#comment-5559 Prabu Karthik Fri, 24 Nov 2006 04:25:00 +0000 http://expertdabbler.com/2006/11/23/ethicsgood-and-ethicsbad/#comment-5559 WA unmai dhaan. but i;ve always thought developers have a bigger world than ppl like us :) WA

unmai dhaan. but i;ve always thought developers have a bigger world than ppl like us :)

]]> By: Prabu Karthik http://expertdabbler.com/2006/11/23/ethicsgood-and-ethicsbad/#comment-5557 Prabu Karthik Fri, 24 Nov 2006 04:22:00 +0000 http://expertdabbler.com/2006/11/23/ethicsgood-and-ethicsbad/#comment-5557 bala small world indeed! adhayum add panirukanum. but i thought its a smaller workd for designer types like me! bala

small world indeed! adhayum add panirukanum. but i thought its a smaller workd for designer types like me!

]]> By: Prabu Karthik http://expertdabbler.com/2006/11/23/ethicsgood-and-ethicsbad/#comment-5556 Prabu Karthik Fri, 24 Nov 2006 04:20:00 +0000 http://expertdabbler.com/2006/11/23/ethicsgood-and-ethicsbad/#comment-5556 balaji sir, idhu oru theeradha vyaadhi. balaji sir,

idhu oru theeradha vyaadhi.

]]> By: WA http://expertdabbler.com/2006/11/23/ethicsgood-and-ethicsbad/#comment-5555 WA Fri, 24 Nov 2006 01:16:00 +0000 http://expertdabbler.com/2006/11/23/ethicsgood-and-ethicsbad/#comment-5555 "i still think employees are bound to give their organisation proper notice and go out on a mutually agreed terms" - Apart from that manasaatchi part, I also believe its a small world. Not really worth burning your bridges on your way out, I don't think “i still think employees are bound to give their organisation proper notice and go out on a mutually agreed terms” - Apart from that manasaatchi part, I also believe its a small world. Not really worth burning your bridges on your way out, I don’t think

]]> By: Subha http://expertdabbler.com/2006/11/23/ethicsgood-and-ethicsbad/#comment-5554 Subha Fri, 24 Nov 2006 00:34:00 +0000 http://expertdabbler.com/2006/11/23/ethicsgood-and-ethicsbad/#comment-5554 I've never understood the funda of making employees work 14-16 hours. In a day, an average person's productive hours probably ranges from 4-6 hours.Beyond that, its going to be vetti timepass...so by forcing someone to work for 14 hours, companies are kicking themselves in their asses, reducing productivity, motivation and employee loyalty! I’ve never understood the funda of making employees work 14-16 hours. In a day, an average person’s productive hours probably ranges from 4-6 hours.Beyond that, its going to be vetti timepass…so by forcing someone to work for 14 hours, companies are kicking themselves in their asses, reducing productivity, motivation and employee loyalty!

]]> By: Bala (Karthik) http://expertdabbler.com/2006/11/23/ethicsgood-and-ethicsbad/#comment-5553 Bala (Karthik) Thu, 23 Nov 2006 22:47:00 +0000 http://expertdabbler.com/2006/11/23/ethicsgood-and-ethicsbad/#comment-5553 "Inspite of all this, i still think employees are bound to give their organisation proper notice and go out on a mutually agreed terms" - I agree but for a different reason :) I joined a company in 2002 (after gracefully exiting from my previous company thank heavens!) and on the first day there i saw a) my reporting manager in my previous company and b) a manager who had interviewed me from another company whose offer i had turned down Moral of the story: The world is small. Better not to burn bridges :) “Inspite of all this, i still think employees are bound to give their organisation proper notice and go out on a mutually agreed terms”
- I agree but for a different reason :) I joined a company in 2002 (after gracefully exiting from my previous company thank heavens!) and on the first day there i saw
a) my reporting manager in my previous company and
b) a manager who had interviewed me from another company whose offer i had turned down

Moral of the story: The world is small. Better not to burn bridges :)

]]> By: Balaji S Rajan http://expertdabbler.com/2006/11/23/ethicsgood-and-ethicsbad/#comment-5552 Balaji S Rajan Thu, 23 Nov 2006 19:06:00 +0000 http://expertdabbler.com/2006/11/23/ethicsgood-and-ethicsbad/#comment-5552 PK, We all could only moan. I too belong to your class. I have suffered the same when I was in India. I hate the culture of working more than the required hours. Here we have stipulated working hours and no company has rights to ask the employee to work more than the stipulated hours. Again our Indian companies are unique. They follow their culture from back home. Also, our colleagues(Indian) have got something imbibed in their mind. They think that they are the pillars and they continue they try to remain at work even if there is nothing to do. I cannot call them workholic. Many think that it is pride to say that they had so much of work. Most of the capitalist countries tend to do these with their employees. It is really sad that these things are getting worst day by day. PK,

We all could only moan. I too belong to your class. I have suffered the same when I was in India. I hate the culture of working more than the required hours. Here we have stipulated working hours and no company has rights to ask the employee to work more than the stipulated hours. Again our Indian companies are unique. They follow their culture from back home. Also, our colleagues(Indian) have got something imbibed in their mind. They think that they are the pillars and they continue they try to remain at work even if there is nothing to do. I cannot call them workholic. Many think that it is pride to say that they had so much of work. Most of the capitalist countries tend to do these with their employees. It is really sad that these things are getting worst day by day.

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