Trending @Infosys; Story of my Life ft.Infy
I am now working for more than 2 years and in this 2 years I have understood few things, which one should avoid
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Favouritism
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Partiality
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Fake Promises
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Bad Mouthing
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Politics.
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Favouritism: There is 1 guy in my team, who dont even know abc's of technology ask me a lots of basic questions (Eg:- What is ECLIPSE IDE for?) and irritate me sometime I felt he's interviewing me. But I silently answer him everything thinking its in turn gaining my knowledge. Neverthless he don't work much always escape with excuses like, Eye Strain , Headaches, Emergency Work.
I have to take his work and complete. I never said anything, But one day I said my Manager that this is too much, He's always escaping. My manager patiently listened to me and stood by his side saying he's having this problem and so and for you to work in team you need to bear this basic things.
But my manager forgot that he's working 1+year now. He should've known basic things and for eye strain he/she can get specs.
There are hell lots of excuses comes from his side, But still my manager dont know why always be his side. I would accept all of this if he would have more technically advanced than me or would have done some mastery in providing solutions But no, He didnt did anything like that. " God Knows why I am only taking this pain"
- Partiality : There are times when I think that I have done this job meticulously I should tell my manager and get some appreciation but, No, My manager do not appreciate a thing done my me where as I have developed a f*cking api testing suite which was not required just to make their work at ease, Developed and maintained cicd Pipeline which should've done by devops team, Developed methods to log CONSOLE logs and report it by mail, But no, No appreciation.
But if He would have done the basic duty allocated to him, My manager would rain thankfulness and Gratefullness to him
I just want to cry sometime.
Ohh my god? I read everything? Is everything you have mentione here is true and exactly the same happened to you or have you exaggerated? I know my previous manager was kind of like this......taunting what even have you done in the project when I literally went above and beyond what's been told to me!!! If allowed I can also mention the shitty managers name, she herself doesnt know anything and pretends to be bigger than the employees who report to her!!!!
Its not exaggerated its consolidated! 2 years frustration in a page looks like this only. I also asked myself after writing all of this, that did I wrote this much, Maybe its too much or in too detail. But being silent for 2 years.
Maybe this much all I can do..
Its too much!!! You give it back to them because If you dont stand for yourself they will keep stepping on you. Also raise a HEAR against them with all the proofs. Please be vocal stand up for yourself dont be so quiet that they step on you completely.
Same is happening with me as well. Even I have completed 2.4years of my life and there are 2 developers who are JL5 and are dumb who don’t know abc of the project. They ping me all the time to ask basic questions which even a 1year can do. Total 4 devs. I joined as a fresher and I am unable to survive in this salary. Its too low i get 19k in hand in which around 14k goes in monthly rent and all. I am unable to survive in this salary but still going with the flow.
There's also a day when my manager asked me to develop one framework for his/her friend, and Make a short tutorial video of how to make it , I made a framework pushed in github, sent the repo link, made a tutorial video uploaded privately in my youtube channel and sent the links to her. She thanked me ( I appreciate this)
Next few days She asked me to a framework within 2 days a complete framework with dependencies in a POM model, I made it in 3hours and handed it to her. She said thanks( I appreciate)
and one day I felt ill, I told her that I cannot do work much cause I think I am infected by malaria, She said, Apply leave, I said I dont have much leave can you spare me one day I would be back by tomorrow.
She said in my face who do you think you're ? That even if you dont work you wont apply leave..and not only that she also asked What I have done for this project that she would accept this leverage to me.
I silently listened to all of this
fast forwarded this month, That Guy I mentioned above in the post, Is getting married in a month, and he is not doing single fucking work , Not responding to group like he is on leave but, He's allowed to apply wfh.
I see all of this, But I dont say anything.
I swear to god not also an enemy deserve this 2 year that I have gone through.
- Politics: about this I wont say anything,about politics I know you all go through this.
but Still I manage to smile and talk with humility and politeness with them. I hate them from the moment I hear their voices but still I choose to be silent.
Fast forwarding to today; Now when I told them, I want to resign cause I would go for higher studies( I am lying i know, But I also need to survive).
They're saying..
- We would change your project.
- We would talk about your compensation revision too
- Please think otherwise here you get time to study
- You're good assets, You've done this you've done that, We cant forget your contribution.
- we know that you're a brilliant fresher and lot more... they're now agreeing on everything I ask
But The Glass is broken right, I am tired of this journey of 2 years 4 months.
I want to cry and scream at the top of my voice. But its okay. we're men we cannot do this
I am facing the same thing but i am a woman even though I can't cry at work
Bhai Itina toh padh nehi skta bas Ye bol skta hun. Itina Gyan nehi nikalta agr tum Bina projects m Bench per 2year betha hote toh 🥲🤡
See I agree to your point! But the Point is Why would anyone consider themself, Working in corporate means you would be sitting in bench! There are lot of my friends in bench , who are going through a lot what I am going through!
and there are people in bench who're anyway earning same as of the people in project and even if they dont know anything. ( I have interviewed some of them thats why I know).
Buddy I know the skills but the point is I am dying inside as the rust killing my skills and you know the real people who are serious about career they don't like to cheat with themselves 🥲🥲if possible help me to get a projects I am from CIS UNIT , SKILLS - UNIX , LINUX , SQL thanks
It's good you vented it out here.... But no one gives shit about your shit ... everyone's got their own shit. So buckle up and move to place where work is appreciated. If I would have even 1/3rd of the knowledge you mentioned.... I might be out by now. No one cares, you take too much pressure,you're in loss
Yeah trying to Leave for better Opportunity as you know in Product Based Company, They need more than you expect it to be.
Bro just an advice... Fix your first problem first and then move to next one... Step by step ... And within those steps, most of your problems will be fixed ... 🤞
For peeps who've readed all of this Please dont give me sympathy, Just avoid doing the mistake I did, Maybe for Many of you guys this is your 1st company/org. For me too it was My first Org. I have learnt a lot from here.
My main learning is:
- Stay Silent but stay strong.
- Being strong not mean being Vocal
- Learn Time Management, Continue evolving your skill
- Dont try to be someone's favourite, Be your Best student.
- Be ready for switch everytime, cause change is the only constant.
Bhai jaao chill karo thoda weekend enjoy karo
Mere bhi career ke laage paade hai 😑 aisa laag raha 2.5 yrs baarbaad hogaye hai life ke but kya karsakte thoda chill karo aur switch ki koshish jaari rakho
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Fake Promises: They Have done lots of fake promises regarding client recommendation, Appreciation, Increments, NSA, Team Change, Project Change Nothing got completed,
I have been crying in front of HR,Senior Project Manager, Scrum Master, to change my project, they said they wont do, There is no such policy we cannot do it. One day My manager came to me saying if you solve this issue, I would bring you Client Recommendation, I solved it too, It was 31st 2022 December night I was working for them, I submitted the work on 1st January 4am. My manager said Oh good, this is great we've been stuck for 2 weeks on this. Thanks and then said I would talk to client regarding this..and now its april 2024, I am still waiting. -
Bad Mouthing : One day I received call from unknown number I was travelling to my hometown on weekend. It was my scrum master, He asked me "salary chahiye ki nahi tujhe?" ( Do you want your salary or not?) I said Yes sir, I do... what happened? He said, Who do you think you're? Why dont you filled your timesheet, I said, Sir I was very busy last day, Cause I was chasing their bullshit DQ score certs. He told me " Teri salary katunga tab tujhe samajh ayega ruk" ( I will cut your salary then you'll understand)
cuts the call - Marked me on leave for the whole week my 5 days leave credit gone. I have screenshot too that in Infyme it was showing, Onduty/on Leave.😊 I chose silence, I asked my senior project manager on this. He said he'll talked to my scrum master and nothing happened My leave got wasted. I was collecting that leave for my emergency.
This is too much to bear, Start applying aggressively in roles outside Infy from today, if you need referral I have one friend in fully remote job I will talk to him, company is nice and pays decent.Just leave these sorry mfs.
Bas kar bhai. Rulayega kya? What you have written pls drop a note to your DM, Delivery ahead and AVP and VP above them. Such managers and leads should be brought to task. I am still a firm believer that most JL7 and above in Infy are good/great folks. The original core of Infy. Same can’t be said about JL6. This does look like emotional outburst but a very factual unfolding of events. Remove references to others in your team only put points that effected you. Hope they gave outstanding ratings for your contributions atleast. There are two types of managers one of who is scared of you because your talent (doesn’t want you to grow as his shortcomings will be exposed) and the second who knows your worth and grows himself by taking care of your growth as well. You seems to have the first type of managers. And such managers need to be exposed. Don’t listen to anything they say. Just go. But make sure you save others by exposing these type of managers who think they are gods. Coming from a performer people will stand up and take note. My sincere request pls do it, don’t hold back. And let this group know what happened.
