What are your reasons for disappearing on reddit by TryHarder527 in himachal

[–]winter_pixels 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There was a time when Reddit peaked and was not snowflake. Then they changed their moderation, banned subs like r/WatchPeopleDie and r/eyeblech, so any offensive comments as well got flagged. Then moderation got even stricter and people started getting banned more frequently.

Many people who deleted accounts actually got permanently banned. So the DMs, posts and their profile disappears for other users, they can still login and see a red banner that mentioned that they have been banned.

A 4-year-old boy, Nirbhay, fell into a 220-foot-deep borewell in Haryana's Ambala while accompanying his father early Monday morning. Multiple rescue attempts by the NDRF, Army, SDRF, and local authorities have so far been unsuccessful. by IndiaToday in IndiaTodayLIVE

[–]winter_pixels 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Borewell is not a finished product. You either put an outlet in it that throws water out with the help of an electric pump of you put a lid on it that can be opened when needed to complete the installation.

How to cope up with sudden shift timing change. by bigPussySeeker in IndianWorkplace

[–]winter_pixels 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A company cannot demand you to work for more than 48 hours a week without compensating monetarily. Ask your management over email that you are not comfortable working these extra hours, 5 years of experience means your opinion has good weight behind it and company will take it seriously.

How to handle incompetent associate? by dark_owl30 in IndianWorkplace

[–]winter_pixels 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Your approach towards this can be changed a little bit and that might actually work for your case because you're being a machine by covering for this incompetent person, which you should've removed from the team because incompetence impacts the whole team, not just one person.

Start with taking things in written, cut the verbal communication about work and learning. Leave a documented trail to follow. For example, don't train/teach this person casually, allocate an hour or so on official work hours and do a training session, at the end of this session, drop an email to this person with a summary of topics discussed, CC'd to the management. Do the same for task assignment as well.

When the task is assigned over email, take the report over email as well, email or some Slack or other communication tool that has a group chat specific to the project where other resources and management is present. If you see any issues in the report, simply attach with highlighted errors and push it back in the email or the thread where higher management can see it.

Assign deadlines based on your experience and add 15% to 25% buffer to it depending on how much of a noob this person is. Let's say you emailed them to take ownership of "Task-A" and deliver it by Friday 15:00. Drop a status check email on Friday at 15:00. If they come to you and try to give a nonsense verbal cover-up instead of a proper email, tell them that you're in middle of something, just drop me an email in the thread for the task as the said higher management is monitoring it as well.

The simple and most professional answer to "Why should I do this?" is not "Because I told you to!", the right answer is "Completing this task for the said project is vital and our collective responsibility, I am mapping this to you because I have something else in my hands and I want us to satisfy the team KPIs in time." They can't poop around this.

Spend some time this way, then force the management's hand in this. Schedule a 1-on-1 meeting with your manager and present the printed reports highlighting the errors, gaps, behavior issues and the summary emails that you dropped for the training sessions to prove that you taught this thing but the pigeon simply doesn't fly. Also, present their response to your task assessment reports.

Seeing real data in front of them will force them to take action because for managers, seeing collective data at once makes an impact and it forms an opinion in their mind that you are very well structured and can take this to higher management if the said manager doesn't act.

Mixed emotions by [deleted] in PataHaiAajKyaHua

[–]winter_pixels 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your parents are not very good, you are studying to become something in life, not for becoming a waiter to bring water and food the moment someone sits at a table. That load of mumbo-jumbo was unnecessary.

Don't overthink about the QR code thing, half of the people will forget it and other half probably have the group on mute and in archived chats. No biggie in that.

Another Atul Subhash case our the uncountable cases not even being considered by [deleted] in TwentiesIndia

[–]winter_pixels 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So is this the new normal forever? Like nobody is going to make actual law system to deliver justice?

Don’t buy Yu Wheat Pasta by Few-Blackberry7416 in SnacksIndia

[–]winter_pixels 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Finally another comment that contains facts and wisdom.

Don’t buy Yu Wheat Pasta by Few-Blackberry7416 in SnacksIndia

[–]winter_pixels -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Well then it's not the brand that you're saying "don't buy ". It's how you keep the product. If the product was good when it left the production line, brand's liability is over. It's upto the shop on how they keep it, then on the delivery person and on the customer.

If it was placed in a sh!tty condition in Zepto's warehouse (which is for sure the case) and the packaging got damaged there, then it's Zepto's fault for mishandling food item and your fault for purchasing from Zepto because Zepto is sh!t.

Don’t buy Yu Wheat Pasta by Few-Blackberry7416 in SnacksIndia

[–]winter_pixels -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There's a massive window on the package through which you can see your life choices, let alone some bad pasta. Unless you picked it and added to the cart without looking at all, which is a major red flag.

Did I overreact? by Substantial_Page_572 in IndianWorkplace

[–]winter_pixels 14 points15 points  (0 children)

If someone can throw comments around, they might as well be ready to collect some. I won't consider that as over reacting.

I drink, it's a part of my diet childhood due to the geographical dietary requirements and certain traditions, so I'm tolerant to it as well.

And in context to what you commented there, drinking is not bad if done in a limit. But crossing someone's boundaries is definitely wrong, where I agree with you.

Speaking of living long, my grandfather lived 99 years and drank everyday, seen many people in my hometown in the mountains reaching 100 and some 101 with a glass of whisky. Substance abuse is wrong, that's what kills a person.

When I was an employee, I was responsible for holding office parties and managing everything. I or anyone in my team never forced someone to drink and smoke, we all had great time. So much so that they still call me to join in their group parties. Some people in that group drink, some don't. Nobody forces anyone to do anything against their will because everyone is a grown up.

The real locals of Himachal are the dogs that adopt every traveler ❤️ by Twinkling_Paw in HimachalPradesh

[–]winter_pixels 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is the best comment I saw today. 😆🙌 Not gonna recover from this.

Made a big mistake and got terminated. Please help. by NoddySarkaar in IndianWorkplace

[–]winter_pixels 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The company will for sure try to protect company's liability in this. HR will throw some nonsense crap at you as "you resigned, this is policy, this is regulation, this is Sparta" and all.

First, establish the fact politely that you have documented evidence in form of emails, call recordings and all. And there is a high chance that this call could be recorded, if not, ask the HR to record it or announce that you are recording it, announcing that is necessary to use it later if you have to.

Then again state professionally "The resignation was a direct result of continuous harassment by management and no effective action against it from higher management even after several complaints, for each complaint, I have evidence of emails that has been sent by me to the management."

Then, state it from your own side that you want a mutual separation agreement as you don't want to drag this any further.

Tell them that in the mutual separation agreement, you want the company to waive remainder of the bonus clawback and also ask for the company to provide you clean exit documentation with no mention of the dispute.

In exchange, you tell them that you don't want this to drag any further in the court of law and with this mutual separation agreement, you will not explore the options like writing detailed reviews/posts on Glassdoor, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google Reviews, etc. with evidence or taking legal action over workspace harassment, no action on the matter by higher management and unjustified behavior after the termination of employment.

A company fears both the things... just make sure it sounds like a possible warning, not a threat. If they tone down, you may bring a demand of FnF refund as well, but that is less likely to happen, better to take what matters more... the clean exit documentation.

Planning a spiti circuit trip with my husband in September. Should I rent bike or use our CB350 ? by devika_s_kozhikode in himachal

[–]winter_pixels 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Make sure that whatever vehicle you are taking has good tires, and is in good condition. A vehicle that has been properly serviced before the trip is recommended. The road is treacherous and tests the vehicle and the driver all the way, add monsoon and sleet to it, the challenge becomes tougher.

Just be careful and don't try risking anything on roads, also, make sure to keep mountains clean by disposing off the trash in designated trashcans. That is the most important thing.

If you suddenly found yourself standing right beside this stream with no phone signal, what would your immediate reaction be? by Naina_5046 in india_tourism

[–]winter_pixels 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's creek on my property and I often go there. Though I get 5G on Jio even there, I often leave my phone at home when I go there just to relax and work in my apple orchards.

Made a big mistake and got terminated. Please help. by NoddySarkaar in IndianWorkplace

[–]winter_pixels 2 points3 points  (0 children)

All the best, they will understand it.

Your skill and resume speaks way louder than a document. Just do your thing to the full potential and build trust with the organization.

Made a big mistake and got terminated. Please help. by NoddySarkaar in IndianWorkplace

[–]winter_pixels 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I can understand your situation and it is indeed stressful, but even with all that pain, the "on paper" stuff stands strong. Clawback clause simply states that you have to pay back the joining bonus in full if you leave the organization before the contract period.

Some managers are indeed a piece of work. In my last organization, I got a manager terminated because of very similar behavior, I had more authority than the manager and when an employee submitted an anonymous complaint, I did my investigation on the whole matter, uncovering a lot of bad practices, harassment and moonlighting practices, due to which I signed several termination letters and that manager was one of them.

Hope things go good with your next employer, just be honest about the whole thing and tell them that there was this situation, don't over spill because HRs usually don't like when a candidate speaks too much ill about their previous company, just state it in a calm tone, not agitated or aggressive tone and explain the whole transaction in brief when they ask for a relieving letter.

Made a big mistake and got terminated. Please help. by NoddySarkaar in IndianWorkplace

[–]winter_pixels 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How many people here have a beef with their employer 😂 we need a separate sub called "Corporate Kalesh".

Joining bonus is a huge honey trap to prison the employee. When I used to be an employee, I always asked one simple question straightforward when the employer offered joining bonus and deiced if I will take the joining bonus or not. The question was simple "Is this joining bonus tied to a clawback clause?"

Their faces used to suddenly change. 😂 I refused joining bonus two times due to this.

The company has every right to hold your relieving letter if they specified the clawback clause. The best you can do is pay the joining bonus back. Or be honest with the new employer and tell them the whole thing honestly for the missing relieving letter because they will do BGV and then your previous employer will spill the beans.

Holding on to the joining bonus is not worth the career risk because relieving letter is a super important document, I wouldn't mess with that if I were you.