Hardly a week has gone after Anand Mahindra’s apology on social media following the firing of an employee at Tech Mahindra, A 25-year-old software engineer jumped off the fourth floor in Pune, India because he felt there is a lack of security in the IT industry.
Several companies in the Indian IT industry have issued pink slips recently, but does that stop life ? In my opinion there are two sides of it. Both the company culture as well as our attitude need to change.
The person would have been working in the same company for days, months or years. And the company does not keep any humanitarian value while giving the pink slips. Are they not humans who take such decisions ? It could happen with them as well. In IT industry (at least in India), company pays the employee 2 months salary while firing. So can't they just take a soft and humanitarian approach while firing ? If a person is given a pink slip and told to leave immediately, he will feel the heat. But if he is convinced and given an option to stay till he finishes the notice period, He will be feeling better comparatively. Anyway he is given the salary, what's the harm in allowing him to go till he finds another job ? A matter of resource utilization ? He would have given a lots for the company, can't the company even fire with a soft touch ?
On the employee side, we all know, there can be a pink slip, any time. But does that stop our life there ? Even if you do not get a job in IT, is your life meant only for that ? I would term people coward ( its my personal opinion), who go for suicide. Getting a pink slip is not end of life my friends.
Don't go only by your heart, don't forget that God has also given you a brain.
Everybody has hardship in their life. Even your parents would have taken lot of hardship to meet their ends and bring up you, did they quit ? Is this the reward you are giving in return ? We have to evolve out of these hardships and there are many ways. For some time, we may go through very tough times, but life will always give you opportunity my friends.
This culture need to change. No artificia intelligence can change it, its all your natural intelligence, which can ship you out of the hardships.