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I think the general mindset of people in Indian IT is that we will work for 15 years and then open our business with our savings. Government should also intervene and make strong labour laws against forced resignations.

I recently read a news about an IIT MTech graduate crashing his superbike into a divider and dying on the spot. I think this general mindset of people living life on steroids has to change. Generally what is happening is that there are people who get into these startups milking good salaries. But the amount of stress is insane so to vent out the stress they generally buy these super cars, superbikes, heavy drinking on the weekends. It's none of my business to tell people what to do in their lives but I am clearly sensing burn out in the industry. What is even the point of money if you are in stress 24*7. The whole point of money is to reduce stress not increase it.

Basically this servant kind of mentality is inculcated by Sr. Indians into their subordinates, who later become managers & rub this nonsense on their team. It’s a vicious cycle where no one be blamed. The only solution to end such kind of toxicity: Current gen IT workers should keep aside their egos, maintain some standards, treat their colleagues not as competition, shouldn’t get into shameless/gross bitching, be united & give feedback to your management on such bad practices and there will be still some manager’s chamchas who shamelessly want to stomp onto their colleagues by revealing/backstabbing. Never encourage such toxicity, fear only god or yourself(if atheist), remember we all are just small tiny organisms in this universe! TAKE A STAND!!!

This is also true in the US at Big 4 firms. There’s an expectation to immediately start completing deliverables on day 1 of a client engagement with almost no onboarding time.

I am 67 today: never ever worked even remotely in an IT sector of this current world. in my humble opinion, it is not a problem which can be pinpointed to one section of the entire industry. [ Client - Customer - employee -> ] this is what we see from the outside world and try to to blame someone in this process; but add to this [ society - governmental "greed" for GDP ] and it further becomes toxic. also Needs or replaced by "wants" which is part of the societal creation. as this happens to be a sort of golden era of social media, individuals should start to "resist" this toxic work culture [ I would say the Western materialistic culture] by posting their dissidence on whichever platform convenient, so that corporate managements wake up and address the issue. maybe a pipe dream but still one of the solutions which came to my mind. if i am wrong please discard it like garbage. regards

Thank you you are doing God's work. Employees are also to blame because they do not stand up for themselves and are not united. They are just running after money.

We are caged chicken, next batch in pipeline.

Yes, we have experienced it, especially during year end! We have celebrated new year along with year end lots of time in the office😊

When individual is not delivering overstressed, then immediate concern from the client would be " Skill Issue" rather behaviour issues, As mentioned " Cheap resources " Replace with new resource, When New resource not up to work over time client also realize , they are not cheap resource, by the time contract itself will end and run for another client, cycle continues.

Right on… the industry is running this way …. Working IT services is trading one set of problems for another and how long one can carry these boulders …, what else can one do after been doctorined working in these pathetic situations for decades Glad you are presenting these, also echoes HBR papers yet Business continue operating this way

Now lowest priority ticket needs to resolved by 3 days. 10-15 years by 10 days. Now foreign client is employing indian to manage tcs and Infosys creating a devasting environment for work

This is Capitalist World/Economy, Profit Driven Economy. Here Employees know how to to slavery. Employees do not know what is human rights, what is there rights, they have submitted there rights to employers. This is happening because people not electing/choosing Good Government, Bad people hold power, Bad people (politicians and corporates) support one another to exploit poor, innocent, uneducated, mass people (employee class). This will not go until people get educated/know about there rights, duties and responsibilities. Unfortunately our education system do not give this education. our education system is teaching how to become slave. politicians and corporates create education system, so education is that way and employees are slaves

We are Exploited by West companies and this includes most Indians. New East India company. We need strong labour laws.

I do appreciate this genuine video. Industry is driven more by process, but less by humans. Appreciate if you can share some more tips and scenarios to handle the work environment. I would like to share a scenario with you. I worked as a QA analyst within short span of 3-4 weeks into the project. Since I got lot of questions regarding the functionality, I tried to make up a notes to clarify with seniors. But, in scrum call they mentioned that they will address the issue. But post scrum call no one gave inputs. This created lot of lag In completion of testing the product and it backfired my work .

Indian IT industry did not invest on people skilling and nor did they focus like China on product development, semiconductor & chip design, AI etc as they were happy till a decade back with resource model with T & M which is impacted now due to value /outcome based fixed cost model. Infosys had Finacle and TCS had BANCs products but not sufficient to sustain. Most Indian IT service companies survived on system integration, maintenance projects, operations support work which required people at one point and now reduced drastically now due to Automated tools. BPO industry got hit really heavy too.

Is this only in service based companies and people working for lesser salaries? What about high paid employees?

Hi Pavan, I've tagged in one of the post where Ive summarised oneof your videos

Brilliant video we need more of this please keep it flowing People need to think deep as it’s helps them and leaders are forced to be future fit 🎉 it’s been years of burn out not worth it Keep it simple fun and open to all across sectors esp across finance so more creativity and more money in the long run. They are running after quick money and people are forced to follow only if u allow that trend to continue 🤩

What about the dark realities of Business management, Consulting, Legal, Pharmaceutical, Govt job, Entrepreneur, Political career ,teaching, driving, begging etc ??😊

Good work 😊, please keep Posting, you are a ray of hope in this greedy, selfish IT industry.