All good things have to come to an end, yes its last week in my first company. So what is so special about it? doesn't it happen to everyone? everyone has to go through this phase at some point of time, what do they feel? first of all what makes people to leave their first company? the company which helped them to groom both personally,professionally.
So here are my reasons why i wanted to move on-
The company you work should feel the employees are its strength not liability and should give them what ever they deserve if not pamper them and what my CEO said is "employees who are staying for long time here are like dead wood and fresh water flows" what do you expect after your CEO says this.This statement from him has created a sense of insecurity,frustration.This gave me the first hint, if want to be like dead wood stay here otherwise move on.
The second hint i got when i came back from my Malaysian assignment, to close the foreign travel request and to settle the amount it took nearly 3 months for me and i didn't get salary for those 3 months.The people who are involved in settling the expenses felt like i have enjoyed the vacation for a year and i can wait for 3 more months to get the salary.No communication, no update, no response to mails, and to close the issue i got to escalate it to L3-manager and the issue got resolved after 3 months.So the issue got resolved after my L3 manager intervened in the matter and sent a mail saying do what ever i have asked for, then everything fell in place, and i felt this is heights of red tapism. For getting my salary why my l3-manager has to send a mail, am i a stupid? trying to explain the issue and the way it has to be solved??and that guy doesn't even bothered to listen until my manager sent a mail.I guess this is not the way to do deal with colleagues.
And then this happened - just to get more money from customer, we started delivering the solutions which are sub standard. I asked my manager is that fine? we would have done much better, we would have given them much better solution.The answer i got was let them comeback then we can give them not now, let the project run for some more time.
I met people who said 'don't train the freshers properly, don't give them all the details and make them good because they may leave the company once they learn everything', what a way of thinking. My company says they are correct and that is how it should be, i tried my best to convince but no body really cared.
Now a days recruiting is in its full swing and the ones they have recruited don't have the passion we had 4 yrs back, at least i feel they don't have, its just that they want salary at the end of the month and my company is happy with them. There is a famous dialogue in telugu 'think what you gave to the country and not what you got from it', probably that is what my company believes in.
So don't i know these thing for the past 4 years? hmm may be i know but i didn't care much about these things as i was working on one of the finest projects i ever did, now things got changed and my first project no more exists, and even the money i earn here is almost half of what i get in other company, yeah money is not important if you are doing good work and you get the respect you deserve.
Initially i had the sense of 'my company' which no longer exists.If you don't feel its your own, you may let it go but if you own something you will try to go that extra mile and makes sure it gets done.
Hopefully the new company will not have all these ills :) :)
Hopefully i will not have time to look around and find the ills ;)
