Electrical Engineer

Why is the Indian Workplace basically a season of Bigg Boss?

Honestly, working in India does not feel like teamwork and more like being under constant surveillance. The default corporate culture isn’t trust. It’s suspicion. Startups, corporates, are all the same. You take a 20-minute coffee break? Your manager thinks you’re giving an interview in the parking lot. You log off at 6 PM sharp? “Oh, lagta hai kaam kam hai iske paas” You fall sick on a Monday? HR wants a medical certificate, a blood sample, and a sworn affidavit before approving that one day of SL. You don’t reply in 7 minutes on Teams? Suddenly you’re “unresponsive” and “not proactive”. And the bloody theatrics. Every task needs a status update. Every status update needs a follow-up. Every follow-up needs a meeting. Then the meeting ends with “let’s take it offline”, which is jus code for “nothing will happen, but please keep looking busy”. Why are we like this? It’s the god damn Indian scarcity mindset. We don’t view colleagues as teammates. We view them as threats. The “bhai-bhai” culture over sutta breaks is the biggest scam. The same guy calling you “bro” downstairs is CC-ing your boss on a passive-aggressive email upstairs, just to cover his own ass and throw you under the bus. Everyone is hoarding information like it’s nuclear codes. Nobody documents anything properly because then it is simple for someone else to do it and everyone knows how long it really takes. If I tell you how to do it, I become replaceable. So we have this weird ecosystem where people pretend to be helpful while gatekeeping the one spreadsheet, the one process, the one contact that actually matters. And then there’s the obsession with control. Biometric attendance like we’re entering a high-security prison. Managers treating WFH like a personal insult because they can’t physically see you typing. productivity only exists when you look miserable at your desk under tube lights. I’m tired of the constant CYA (Cover Your Ass) emails. The “as discussed” weapons. The screenshot culture. The “looping in seniors for visibility” drama. fyi only and the fake urgency. The fake niceness. The fake “we’re a family” while everyone is quietly sharpening knives behind the scenes. We spend 40% of our energy actually working and 60% proving that we are working. It helps absolutely no one. It’s just exhausting. And the saddest part? When trust is missing, even good people become paranoid and act out. Everyone plays defence. Everyone focuses on keeping a trail. Everyone assumes the worst. You’re not building a company at that point. You’re just doing absolutely nothing.

Fixing NCR - Outsiders perspective

Yes, the region being close to India's Capital has all facilities - huge roads, swanky malls and shiny cars, everything that fits in a person's perception of development. But there are problems, which can be solved but they'll take time and effort. 1. Urban planning and mobility: Yes, there's metro and RRTS, but the last mile transport (within 5-10 km radius of metro station) can be improved through feeder minibuses. Also, planting more trees in the space between roads and footpath really helps with dust and shade. 2. Anger issues: It doesn't matter if your net worth is Rs. 10,000 crore, if you act like a do-kaudi ka brainless, classless person who picks up fight with anyone, snowflake ego and a need to project their "tohra", people won't respect you and treat you like a roadside goon. And those kinds of people don't have any respect, people will stay away just like how they stay away from rabid dogs. 3. Classism - Yes, that maid and that Blinkit delivery boy are human and they deserve basic human dignity. The way you treat the less fortunate and underprivileged defines your character and value as a human. If you can't climb 15 floors, don't expect that delivery boy to do the same either. 4. Development over theatrics: Malls don't mean development if your road next to your gated compound becomes a river in the rainy season. Having a Royce doesn't mean shit if the road potholes can only handle a 4x4. Ask your local municipal corporation to make good public infrastructure. Many of these issues exist in other cities too, but are very prevalent in Delhi NCR. If only these are controlled, NCR might be a super-megacity of India.