A man resigned on his first day of work after his Indian boss scolded him and dismissed the concept of work-life balance as a ‘fancy term’ and ‘western behaviour’.
Yeah, I quit one of my MSFT contract jobs a decade ago after 2 weeks. Team Lead verbatim told me he expected me to work overtime without pay, which is actually a breach of the contracting firm’s terms.
Applied as a DB admin and data analyst.
What this guy wanted me to do was make perfect little graphs in powerpoint for his slide deck meetings with superiors that were not actually possible to do with the visualization software provided.
So use paint! Use photoshop! Ok, follow his instructions verbatim. He comes back 2 hrs later, oh actually I think this minute detail should change and this color should be slightly less ‘bright’.
Ok, do that. 2 hrs later: No no no that’s too dark! That other change I asked you to make doesn’t look good, put it back!
But anyway, at other contract jobs for MSFT, I routinely saw Indian managers from a higher caste being horrifically rude and abusive to Indian temp workers from a lower caste, just screaming profanities and threats in Hindi.
HR’s line was that actually that’s just a cultural difference and it would be rude and untoward to stand up for those guys because it would be perceived as racism.
But anyway, at other contract jobs for MSFT, I routinely saw Indian managers from a higher caste being horrifically rude and abusive to Indian temp workers from a lower caste, just screaming profanities and threats in Hindi.
Yeah, see that shit first person got me all sorts of uncomfortable…
Can’t even really say anything since they got so e wierd dynamic either without looking like culturally insensitive shit lord
Yeah, I quit one of my MSFT contract jobs a decade ago after 2 weeks. Team Lead verbatim told me he expected me to work overtime without pay, which is actually a breach of the contracting firm’s terms.
Applied as a DB admin and data analyst.
What this guy wanted me to do was make perfect little graphs in powerpoint for his slide deck meetings with superiors that were not actually possible to do with the visualization software provided.
So use paint! Use photoshop! Ok, follow his instructions verbatim. He comes back 2 hrs later, oh actually I think this minute detail should change and this color should be slightly less ‘bright’.
Ok, do that. 2 hrs later: No no no that’s too dark! That other change I asked you to make doesn’t look good, put it back!
But anyway, at other contract jobs for MSFT, I routinely saw Indian managers from a higher caste being horrifically rude and abusive to Indian temp workers from a lower caste, just screaming profanities and threats in Hindi.
HR’s line was that actually that’s just a cultural difference and it would be rude and untoward to stand up for those guys because it would be perceived as racism.
… So yeah I don’t work in tech anymore.
Yeah, see that shit first person got me all sorts of uncomfortable…
Can’t even really say anything since they got so e wierd dynamic either without looking like culturally insensitive shit lord