It will not be a bad idea to ameliorate your brain of all the ethical junk they taught you at your university, because as an engineer, you are bound to get a beating of a donkey in the industry. The Industry in all its mightiness is nothing but a bunch of people talking nonsense to each other, putting their better part to vacillate cash from nincompoops at expense of the lives of engineers. The gears that roar in the Industry’s engine are engineers, they bring to life the prospects of solving societal, architectural, technical, social, economical and sometimes political problems. Contrastingly these little gears ruin their lives building empires for people only proficient at being turgid, in specious hopes of getting a better life ahead. A future promised to them at the cursory price of their social and personal life. Years of health wrenching education and hard-work fated to manufacture minions taking orders from people who are Greek about the product they sell.
The practice of overworking employees has lost its stigma in the unquenchable thirst of achieving more from less, by keeping a tight fist on the cash kitty. Rather it would not be wrong to say that offering remuneration for putting up extra work for a companies benefit has evaporated totally. Relentlessly and remorselessly the working class is asked to come to work on holidays, and let alone the hardship, there is no talk about paying the employee back. It is not even considered customary to even ask if the employee can surmount the extra load. More lamentable is the fact after the ingenuously time-lined project is over, the companies get over the customary ethics by sending a thank you email: “Thank you, jack for rattling your posterior on the weekends, here is gentle pat on the back. You will be reassigned to another project very soon.” and that’s it. I mean when was the last time you ordered a meal at a restaurant and gently patted on the owners back in return? Never, and when you tip the waiter he is all thankful only because you appreciated his service in terms of monetary benefit. While this cant be equated with the rightful hardship for extra work, but the point I am trying to bring home is that leave the courtesy to horses, Leastwise employees should get their rightful share. Management shouldn’t be quiescent in shackles of their masters and should stop being obsequious. A happy workforce can deliver better outcome than the overly oppressed.
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This article is based on the narratives of different employees that have been meeting for a year.
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