Dear Selma, I don't know whether your chronic misunderstandings of my posts are genuine or on purpose, but now I am forced to waste precious bandwidth to clarify what I have written...
Selma wrote: > > In your earlier post you told me that I have a "bird's > eye" view of everything presumably in India, and that > no one is derided on account of leaving at 6pm. I did > not respond to your post because I didn't want to > shatter your youthful impressions of world. There is > time enough, when life will do that for you. Aristo responds: Note that all the employees in my company are not as youthful as me, but I still see 40 year olds running like juveniles to catch the 6 o' clock Bus everyday. Oh, and my "bird's eye" statement was a lighthearted potshot intended to ruffle your feathers! Selma wrote: > However, now that Sunith agrees with me (mind you in > part only, he didn't forget to emphasis that), > suddenly you tell us that you've been suffering from > BP, that 2 out of 4 bosses exploited you and you put > in 12 hour work-days. Aristo clarifies: Selma, there is nothing inconsistent between my post to Vivian and that to Sunith. I have only expanded what I claimed earlier. I acknowledged that I had been exploited in both posts, and that I stood up to it with no negative fallout. If you re-read the summary paragraph to my response to Sunith, you may just understand. We allow ourselves to be exploited, especially if there are HR policies in place in your favour. To explain for the 3rd time about my 12 hr "Work"- 12 hr "Play" policy (Goanetters, forgive me), the "Work" part INCLUDES the TRAVEL time between home and office, that is, say if I step out of my house at 8am, I have to step in to my house at 8pm, so that I can have some Hygiene time of 0.5 hrs, dinner time of 1 hr and family/personal time of 2.5 hours, followed by 7 hrs of required sleep. If my travel to office and back takes a total of 1 hr, I am WILLING to work 11 hrs with 3 breaks. But since it takes me 3 hrs, I work a 9 to 6. Period. Selma wrote: The good part of this "exploitation" was that it was a female boss and that you thoroughly enjoyed being exploited by her, so all is not lost. Aristo clarifies: Selma, I sense that you are implying that my female boss used her sexuality to exploit her team. In no way did I give that impression. How coloured is your vision? I specifically stated : QUOTE< one of which I willingly allowed myself to be exploited by, as she was an amazing Boss, simply because she had the art of getting all her subordinates to be willingly exploited through her motivational speeches! >UNQUOTE Note that the words motivational speeches are not in quotes, so no double meaning was intended. To clarify, my female Boss did NOT use her sexuality (there wasn't any to use!), but used her art of people management to make us work as a team to achieve the unreasonable targets set by the German client. She was my first Boss, and I have to say that I learnt a lot about people skills from her, which I have not seen in my bosses since then: Delegation, trust, motivation, encouragement when we did well, and stern warnings when complacency got the better of us. She looked out for our personal grievances and never made us feel like mere resources. She even gave me the opportunity to head a team of 4 at such an infant stage of my career, from which I learned a lot about dealing with ego's. In return, we blindy allowed ourselves to be exploited to work unreasonably long hrs. Selma wrote: Knee-jerk reactions to what I write are not a good way to enhance debate on Goanet. Aristo clarifies: I entered the thread only after Vivian's post. I had no intention to do so before that. My knee-jerk reaction was to my buzz words "trickle down effect" that Vivian mentioned. I have no wish to contradict for the sake of contradicting, but do take pleasure in taking lighthearted potshots and see the person get so affected! Anyway, to do you justice, I brought up this topic with my HR professor during evening college yesterday, and he informed me that the Labour laws in India regarding working hours do not apply for white collar jobs/IT industry. So there is an opportunity for companies to take advantage of this, however, larger companies have a responsibility and integrity to uphold, and do not do so, BY POLICY, and are by and large, PEOPLE FRIENDLY. Cheers! Aristo. _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org