congratulations Primal. You proved yourself and successes. Renuka ----- Original Message ----- From: "parimala shinde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <accessindia@accessindia.org.in> Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 10:54 AM Subject: Re: [AI] IT sector starts shedding its differently abled resources.
> Hay list!!! > > Sorry for the late reply > > It feels great to be writing to the list after a long long time. > > I remember posting my greeviences about the same on to the list a year > back, where I briefly explained the kind of discrimination 1 of my hearing > impaired friend and myself went through. > > Let me share the good news with all of you. > > Our performances have bin recognized, and we have bin converted to fixed > term hires from short service providers. > > And with the passage of time, we would even be converted to regular > employees. > > So, there is no need to worry about the job security for the differently > abled IBMers if the performence is good enough. > > I also remember writing to the list about the hostile manager who > pledged to destroy my career at IBM. > > I am thrilled to declare that my life at IBM is quite safe as the lady is > moved out of my team, and my new manager is completely confident about my > capabilities. > > Hope to hear some good news from all of us in trubble at work.> > Thanks and regards > Parimala >> >> Hope the list members recollect an issue I had raised about six months >> back - about the so-called new employers of the differently abled, the IT >> & ITES companies, keeping the disabled resources on long periods of >> contract, without confirming them. >> >> The ensuing discussion had centred on the benefits of the contract system >> and how it was really progressive. The issue was swept under the carpet >> unlike other "serious" issues like discrimination by airlines against the >> visually challenged, the mistakes in grammar in the list postings, etc. >> >> Now that the IT sector has started feeling the heat of the Rupee >> appreciation and the US economic melt-down, the poor disabled resources >> have started getting contract termination notices. Funnily, a >> multinational behemoth which describes itself as an equal opportunity >> employer and draws lot of media publicity from this is one of the first >> to initiate action that might impact some of our own list members. >> >> There is little that we can do but sit and watch as the most important >> social security mechanism available to the Indian blind, a steady job, is >> kicked out from their grasp thanks to biased corporate policies. While >> appreciating the fact that job mobility is the in-thing in a globalised >> existence, let us not forget that the disadvantaged in India, like us >> disabled, do not have an elaborate social security mechanism to fall back >> on in such circumstances. >> >> Finally, when all the hype dies down, the only recourse to the disabled >> who are not from well-heeled families may still be government jobs and / >> or traditional sectors like teaching, vocational trades and >> self-employment. >> >> Rgds >> >> RS >> M: 98 472 76 126 >> >> > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > please visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > > > --------------------------------- > You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster > Total Access, No Cost. > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > please visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
