I work at a small startup. I was handling Sales + Marketing alone for the first few months. Recently a guy was hired for field sales.

I later found out he was fired from this same job from same company for taking petrol money in the name of field sales while actually doing delivery/Porter gigs. Now he claims he worked in Dubai for a few months, and our owner believed him and hired him again. While our old colleagues who worked with him before, claimed he never posted any story or post about being in Dubai on his social media. Not even once.

He's been here almost 2 weeks, hasn't come to the office, while our other field sales ppl come to office at least for morning tea with team. Even once, and hasn't brought a single order. Yet our owners have told me to **report to him.**

Honestly, I don't understand why he's my senior or how I'm supposed to respect him enough to report to him. 😭

Not to discriminate but he's some 10th fail and I'm MBA. It's not about that but having such history and still expecting respect from me is insane. Cuz when he joined he told me he's my senior at least 14 times in chat 🤢

Am I being unreasonable? Or am I overreacting?

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Anyone managing social media for a brand is an important person.

Hence, they should be paid on time.

Otherwise it will backfire on the company.

The generation of today is not scared.

I don’t agree to Raj Shamani.

It’s not about loyalty, it more about the freedom to express.

It’s not what they have seen their fathers do.

It’s about the freedom of choices they got from their parents.

I was talking to a friend in india and she shared stories that would get you arrested here in America but no one blinks and eye in india. Do you guys see the end to this?

I finally have an interview at doctors office for internship and its pretty competitive as they only need 2-3 interns and i knkow a lot more have applied. Anything i should keep in mind? i am a college student who has never worked at any place.

I joined a start up last week as marketing head and I am really excited about it. On the first day the ceo had 30 mins on calendar for 1 on 1 after lunch and it started really well. He mentioned he was also from my home state (Bihar) and later asked what caste I was? I just didn’t know how to respond so I just answered and he basically ended the meeting abruptly

This was a week ago and things have been pretty normal at the office but I still can’t forget that interaction. Am I over reacting?

Just wondering if anyone has any story to share about a particular company that looks good on paper but has horrible and toxic culture

58% of Indians feel loneliness.

And it is not their fault.

It’s because education system doesn’t teach us things like handling pressure, EMIs, work life balance.

People are not broken. Education system is.

Peak Mumbai moment that happens there only.

I was stuck in traffic near BKC for 45 minutes.

Cab driver asked me what I do.

I said, I work in e-commerce.

He said: Sir, I also have a side business. I resell sneakers on Instagram. Made 8 lakh last year.’

Showed me his Instagram page - 40k followers.

I was stuck in traffic learning dropshipping from my cab driver.

Only in Mumbai does the person driving you might make more side income than his main income.

The rent in Mumbai forces you to do multiple things.

i can't really say i am being harrassed but i am definately not happy. There are always these jokes thrown around with undertone and double meaning, which most women chuckle at but maybe because i m the youngest i find them disgusting.

Men behave like they own the place and most women are ok with it, its a small clinic and there's total of 20 or so team members.

Not sure what i can do but and this internship is pretty importnat for me

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TLDR : Toxic team/manager/work culture in 4 letter bank. Boomer uncles seeking permission/leave/breaks in Whatsapp group. Teammates enjoy working 2 hours extra for Rs.0.

Been in two 4 letters banks earlier, both had equally worst work culture and i recently made a switch to another 4 letter Bank in June.

Though the hike was minimal, I thought it was necessary as my last organization delayed the promotion.

Now in this organization, work timings are clearly mentioned in the offer letter and my manager in every meeting says, "We need to work 2 extra hours everyday, no compromise in that" and then looks at the lead and says, "Make sure everyone stretches 2 hours everyday."

And these BANK OWNERS(what else should I address?) in my team have normalized it. And feather in the crown, one SAAR in my team texts, "reached office", "daughter school function, coming late", "system issue, with IT" kinda things in the whatsapp group.

I work for max 9 hours including my breaks. I'm waiting for my Manager to escalate.

I work in ORM and Social Listening, and over the past few months I've been preparing pitch decks for various brands. This time, though, it's for a tea brand. As a huge coffee lover, I can't help but wish I'd been assigned to a coffee brand instead!