Here is a news item including an audio clip purporting to be the conversation between Tech Mahindra's (TM) HR person informing an employee that he has to sign his resignation letter: http://www.thenewsminute.com/article/quit-tomorrow-or-get-terminated-it-worker-leaks-audio-clip-heartless-sacking-hr-person-64812
As per this article, CP Gurnani the CEO was paid Rs 150 Crores for the last FY.
The audio clip is very interesting:
The HR girl has a very sweet voice and it's interesting to hear her tell the employee that he is fired as part of company's cost cutting. How difficult it must have been for her to have sat through the meeting and answering the questions while the guy (employee) was in such distress. If she was humane, she would perhaps have felt sick at the end of the meeting. And God knows how many such meetings with other employees she must have had.
I have rarely come across anyone who has enjoyed being in the position of that HR person. I have only heard of one person who apparently enjoyed being in that position but that is another story.
The employee obviously is distraught that he is given only a day's notice. I came to know about another employee of the same company who also has not received his salary for about a month and perhaps going to be terminated.
And then Mr Gurnani makes 150 crores. Is this fair?
The company is not bound to provide life time employment. The company reserves its rights to terminate any company as per the contract signed as long as the contract is relatively moral. When the company is in troubled times it makes sense perhaps to cut costs and survive with fewer employees than risk all going down together. Even a mother crocodile, when she does not have enough to feed its little ones, tends to eat one of its babies in order to survive longer and take care of its other babies and to reduce the amount of food needed for its brood. This enhances the probability of the survival of the brood.
What about the crocodile baby that got eaten you may ask. What can one say?
What about the crocodile baby that got eaten you may ask. What can one say?
The question now is: Are human beings no different from crocodiles? When you have to survive you tend to behave like an animal.
Is this right? Now, that is a question I do not know how to answer.
Supposing I was fired and I live in an expensive rented flat. Would I not leave that flat and move to a cheaper place? Would this not adversely affect the landlord? Would that have an impact on my decision to vacate the expensive flat? I have to cut cost to survive and I would cut whatever costs without cheating. Is this improper?
Supposing I was fired and I live in an expensive rented flat. Would I not leave that flat and move to a cheaper place? Would this not adversely affect the landlord? Would that have an impact on my decision to vacate the expensive flat? I have to cut cost to survive and I would cut whatever costs without cheating. Is this improper?
Coming to Gurnani. The amount he is paid is a contract between Mahindras and him. And Mahindras would gladly pay Mr Gurnani 15 lacs or 15 thousand rupees a year if they could get away with it. Unfortunately the CEO does not come cheap and his price was decided based on the value he conveyed that he brought to the Mahindras.
Can we say that the person, whom we heard in the audio clip, has enough to eat at least but the farmers in Maharashtra are committing suicides by the dozens?Should we ask the TM employee in the audio clip to share what he has with the dying farmers? By bringing Gurnani's salary into the picture are we not indirectly suggesting the same thing?
Any relationship between two parties exists because both parties find it good to have it. When either of the parties decides it's time to quit then the other party can't say he is not ready to quit. There is a pre-closure clause in their contract which comes into effect. Such is the way of modern business life (and in modern personal lives also when they have prenuptial contracts).
Our heart does go to the injured party. But let us not forget that the party that short closed the contract wasn't doing it for fun or being sadistic.
And lets not forget one thing - the HR girl was doing what she had been told to do by the management at Tech Mahindra. She did not do it because she wanted some fun.
And lets not forget one thing - the HR girl was doing what she had been told to do by the management at Tech Mahindra. She did not do it because she wanted some fun.
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