Working on Diwali -EY GDS
This is to bring into notice that we have been asked to work on Diwali day and following weekend just bcoz the client has planned sone data migration to production. Is it fair by company management to ask their resources to work on such festivals. People earn to celebrate such moments with family. Why can't they push a bit n do this the next weekend. We have been working long hours n weekends for the project already. But asking us to even work on Diwali is just too much. EY SERIOUSLY NEEDS A BETTER WORK CULTURE!!!
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But isn’t that with newsrooms too? And a lot of blue collar roles and essential services? Plus, businessmen and hawkers, or farmers don’t have offs.
Is corporate culture taking things a notch too high?
While toxic workplaces are condemnable, a friend pointed out and I do concur- people earning 4x the usual salary need to slog more, and some of them are fine with it.
If I wanted a relaxed life, I chose such a profession. Many of my friends have turned to freelancing.
Choose your hell. Complaining might not help!
India is a land of slaves. Festivals are only for the Whites.
Should not be. We need to change this culture
Very difficult to fight this culture because MNCs know that if one employee refuses then the next one is ready to do that work even on festivals. Because the unemployment is very high and people are begging for jobs in the market.
This is a supply demand issue, there are 1000s of people ready to replace you with less pay and more work. As long as abundant candidates exist, exploitation will never stop.
This, same dialogue was received by my friend from a company's HR he was interviewing with, he refused the offer letter then and there
It is what it is man
Man, please don't let your managers do this to you. Here is how I see the situation, looking at this i believe you would not like to continue here for long and if that is the case then why let a manager ruin such a precious festival of yours.
Just be bold and say you won't be able to work as it's a special occasion for you and your family.
Only if people start realising their worth, this "culture" is going to change.
From last 1 year iam working on sat and sunday 😵💫. Seems no one cares here...
You sure made a good deal with the devil!
Deal is also pretty bad 😄, i feel like protaganist in '12 years a slave'.
Just say you would be with your family and will not have enough time to support if it is a holiday. If it is an additional leave and yet not applied before this information, then becomes difficult.
You can be firm and say that you will try and make time if possible, but would be mostly involved with activities at home and happy to support once you are free or the next day.
Just to add on the client part, they will obviously choose a time convenient to them. If it is a regulatory thing, they have no choice, if not, ideally the project manager should communicate with the client on this and communicate the holiday in advance.
I work in EY and forget Holidays, the client does not even expect me to work on my day off even though I have told them that I would be available for 30 mins to take the call.
Appreciated, but the ask is to work on Diwali day which is public holiday. The point is management should have informed client that it's public holiday. They should handle it n not always ask the resources to compromise. We have already worked on weekends but even on festivals is too much. I will definitely say No.
Unfortunately itna sab hone ke baad also ..these people are like that ... seriously
Are they compensating you for working on a holiday?
They are saying they will give comp offs, but we already have so many leaves pending. They don't even let us take leaves bcoz of workload .
It’s disheartening and concerning. While certain roles like in healthcare, blue-collar sectors, or even specific IT and white-collar positions, may require work on weekends, public holidays, or involve overtime, it is important that employees are compensated fairly for this additional effort. Overtime work should not be normalized.
See if you could get the overtime compensation agreement in writing and include HR in the communication for transparency
I bet we would expect half of us would expect our househelps to show up to work on Diwali.
Hypocrisy much?
EY, is a services company. Serves cross border clients and charges a premium for that.
That's how they make money to pay you a decent salary.
Why play victim? That's the game you signed up to play, don't like it? Find another place with a buisness model that allows you to have more flexibility.
No point complaining.