Comments on: IBM To 700 New Recruits – You are Fired

By: Somo

Somo — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:20:01 +0000

One fact that I cannot resist to pen here. Being in IT/ITeS industry one must be prepared for this ! When its hay-day, we bring home much more than other’s do in their life-time … and when otherwise, obviously will get kicked like this only .. ! Life is either too kind or too cruel for people in this industry. So,no hard feelings .. live life king size and store some grains for harder times
Cheers to this profession !

By: Raghu

Raghu — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:03:03 +0000

It’s a big game happening here! A perfect script that needs to be told to public by a good filmmaker like Madhur Bhandarkar who has shown the hard realities of day to day life..

By: IT Pro

IT Pro — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 06:26:13 +0000

This looks to be a secret drive where newly inducted engineers(B.Tech and B.Sc graduates who even had a tie up M.Sc IT program) were shown the way out by conducting a complex performance exam which was targetted to achieve this objective.
The newbies were threatened with having to pay back their M.SC IT course fees (about INR 70000) to submit their own resignation letters indicating personal reasons to cover up the retrenchment.
Also heard they a couple of mainframe deals they had, got cancelled which may have been another factor.
In fact, they have recruited these B.Sc graduates with a combined MSC IT program (a reason why many of them joined IBM, instead of pursuing higher studies, so that you could be on the jobs well as earn a degree in 2 years) and then left them on the roads without the job, the MSC program as well as losing out an academic year if they had gone for higher studies.

As somebody said, though retrenchment is common, it is a truly unethical and shameful the way how they did it, and what they anounced to the media. Nothing truly graceful for a company like IBM.

By: krishna

krishna — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 15:27:05 +0000

i feel dis is d problem of entire software industry….why becoz no company is giving proper guidlines to d freshers especially abt the industry,and thr work

By: Kaka Nirvikar

Kaka Nirvikar — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 23:59:32 +0000

I guess software employees will now learn that they don’t rule the world. Till now, the trend had been for employees to dictate terms to employers irrespective of their real skills.

Now companies are kicking ass & getting their own. Good for the industry & its participants.

By: gregory

gregory — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 16:46:40 +0000

shocking, ok, if you want to feel that, go ahead… but it is also an eye-opener, something to learn from, what is global quality, what is real education and innovation… the top guys don’t have to worry, but the middle ones cannot become complacent, or it will be back to the village and your father’s shop … not a bad life, but not what you wanted

By: Naveen

Naveen — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:47:41 +0000

This is very shocking news for all guys, Those who are associated with IT.