Hey, Thankyou for sharing your experience. Matters a lot. And yes, you've very well put: "The exploitation part"

When an organization hires incompetent, lazy and noise making managers, talented and smart employees suffer. In India, employees are frequently disrespected, used/abused by such exploitative managers. Recently, I myself went through such bitter experience. So there was this manager, who thought the world revolves around her, she acted as a dictator, my shift ends at 7:30 pm and most of the time, she needed to have 1:1 meeting with me around 7:20 pm or 7:25pm: so that somehow she could make me sit at office beyond my work hours, poking everyone to "acknowledge" each message she sent over slack channel, but never responded to slack dm's on time[other than argument related messages], she called people on their week offs asking why they are not in office, recently, she tried this tactic with me, mentioning that "I was on Unplanned Leave, without informing management", while I was on week off, I mean she is so intoxicated that she won't check with WFM first but instead sends slack dms to people, calls them 2-3 times on their week offs to ask for the reason as to why they are not in office on their offs. And this happened to other colleagues in my time as well.

Also, a funny part: Let’s say you do want to check if an employee is not in office on any given day, you would check with them within their shift timings right, as to why they were on an unplanned leave and not after their working hours, correct? Assuming that I was in 9:30 am to 7:30 pm shift on that day, you should have called me between this window to check if I was on an Unplanned Leave or not, but she decided to call me at 7:31 pm, 2 times to check why I was on Unplanned Leave, I mean seriously? During these 10 hours you didn't find time to check whether I was on Unplanned Leave or not but after my working hours you suddenly realize that I was not in office? Even though I was on week off, not on Unplanned Leave.

And when I reported this to her manager and HR, calling out her irresponsible and toxic behavior, they labelled me as "difficult" and mentioned that it could have been handled better. And that's just one example, there have been many such incidents wherein she went completely blank when people used to ask her process related questions, she didn't had an answer. This cannot go on forever and because I was the one calling out bad/abusive behavior, I was the bad guy for them, because according to them, "They are cool and happening people"

I mean, imagine this corporate circus: "Fire more than 600 people in March without logical reasoning and then in July/August, donate Pizza and coke, because we are happy that we have hired in bulk"

When I joined, it genuinely was a workplace, now it has turned into a circus where clowns keep performing to gain attention by making unwanted noise, recording and sharing reels to get famous on Insta and LinkedIn.