SALARY !!! - April-May season

Here is an interesting writing about salary revisions that happens in this season. It was sent to me by one of my colleague named Al-Ameen. Here it goes....
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April-May season. And suddenly the National anthem has changed. Everyone stands up to say,
"We want more hike".
Is that a justified ask?


An Employee's perspective.

This is not something that happens every day. It is one year of hard toil, different learning, different emotions, and different experiences. And whatever happens or happened, I have and had done my best. Then why me???

A subconscious pledge

A fresh fiscal year begins with a fresh mind and fresh ambitions. This year, I am going to give my best shot to be the top performer. I shall do all I can to make my figures soar.


Reality

Different issues pop out. Deadlines, customer satisfaction, late nights, mind boggling issues, delivery numbers, rhetorical questions, resource issues, learning curves, mentoring, extra curricular, and reporting. You have been through it all. Everyone's been through it. To re-affirm your ambitions, you get nominated for a spot award as well. An even bigger surge of enthusiasm runs through your spine. You sit erect and decide to plunge deeper in to the black hole skipping brunches.

The D-day arrives with the big guys waiting with a pleasant smile. For a second you feel like the chosen one. And then came the neatly crafted letter. Jhapaaaang !!! Those figures stare at you like loaded arrows. A silent smile tries to cover your frown you just gave birth to. The manger whom you worshipped all year suddenly resembles the devil's accomplice. Your eyes blur and the Big Boss who just handed over the letter resembles a modern version of the Yamraj. A sudden impulse of hell runs through your spine but you still manage to hold than pen without trembling and imprint your lovely name as signature on the paper. Words' though refusing to come out of your mouth, a bleaky 'thank you' escapes your lips. A subtle exit from the room follows.

Post Mortem

Questions !! Questions !! Questions !! A never ending list of questions fills your already light brain. What did I do wrong? What more could I have done? What went unnoticed? What would actually make me happy? Is this Justice for all? Is Justice dead?
And back to your cube you blast Linkin Park's 'In the end' followed by GodSmack's 'I Stand alone' in your headphones. An aura you always seemed to enjoy now makes you uneasy as if in a middle of a swamp. Now thoughts replace the questions. Looks like the time has come. Looks like the world out there needs me more than in here. It's time Lord. Here I come. Take me…

Peoplesoft => HRMS => Employee self service => Submit …….follows…..


Critical Analysis

Ok Guys…. after that little horror story, its time to face it. A baker makes cakes and a guy serving him won't get paid until the cakes are sold. More cakes sell, you are in good luck and in good shape to get a raise. Most of our worries or anxieties per se come from relative comparisons both within and peer groups. The moment you have made this comparison, all you have got is a delta in the figures that is enough to shoot you to the bone and nothing else.
Any group we work as a part of is a constituent of this really huge apple pie. Yummy Yummy. Everyone's wish is to have a nice big bite of it. That is exactly what strives us to perform better. Some parts of the pie go stale, some parts grow bigger, and some stay the same. Now nobody decides these things but trends in the industry. So it’s nothing personal out here. You are one lucky candidate if you are part of the growing pie. Bad dreams if you are part of the stale constituent. All said and done never look at your neighbor’s wife. All you will end up with is jealousy and discontent. Rather search for a good one yourself. Hey…I aint advertising for a shaadi portal. So firstly if your chaddi dost in a different group is walking away with a fancy mobile and you still own a nokia 1100 then this is just the reason.
Next case is within the group itself. Everybody is not born the same. You thought you did your best then there’s somebody out there who has always done better. I mean that's how we learn, we benchmark and we become better. There is nothing personal out here as well.

So. When nothing is personal out here why do we take it personally and swear against our immediate superiors??? This is exactly why…because the reason for the differentiation and the justification never comes out. It stays silently under the sheets of confidentiality. Now if we all just pause for a second and think about it, this confidentiality is causing more harm than safe play. I mean c'mon. This is such a networked world. Even a swiss bank's password gets leaked. Are we talking about neatly wrapped envelopes?

Take this case. If everybody knows everybody's figures in an official manner tagged along with the exact justifications in terms of group performance, turnover and the little extra the individual packs, it not only silences the unnecessary critics but paves a way as a great benchmark for the employees to get direction as to where he should pump his effort and skill to get better or at least equal it. If the big shots featuring in the annual report are justified then this should be. Of course, it is definitely added work for the Human resources but the benefits are just way too much than you can imagine.

And finally, there are indeed a few, very few cases where the superior makes this a complete personal business that spoils the way everybody thinks. This one's getting weeded out too with this process and then we have a smooth Rolls Royce rolling in everyone's mind.

Guys…. Ready for the next pledge??? ;-)

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From Repercussion to Reperfusion....

Sounds strange ain't it? But, it is true. As a REPERCUSSION of a hasty decision which I made a year back, I'm heading back to the world which I left a year back. All my dreams were shattered in to bits and pieces and are being fed to the road hawks. I'd great expectations out of my current organization. If I glance through the achievements that I've made in the past 1 year, I think I'm aghast by the development. I've lost all my technical competency and have become a "bench man". I don't know where me and my career is heading towards. It's a big "?" ....

Now, I'm again back on my cruise to find my destiny.......Hope god is with me.....

"Help me to help myself.... Save me please..."

The journey from "Repercussion to reperfusion " has begun........ Is there an end to it ?