Thursday, October 20, 2005

beginner's end

dunno how many of you have this problem...but while blogging is ..well..blogging...registering a new name requires a lot of ingenuity and imaginative powers...akin to wizards of yore...this is my third attempt at creating a blogspot for myself and i am finally successful.

actually, the second time i tried to create a blog was because i was absolutely upset with the 10-10 of the blogosphere...the treatment being meted out to gaurav sabnis and varna and of course rashmi bansal rankled and i decided to create a blog in support of them...later realised that the best course of action would be to wait and watch how things unfolded....unfortunately, it looks like it will die it's own death just like a million other happenings around the world....the only seriously affected person being gaurav sabnis...i wish him well and hope that the right company hires him and gives him the respect that he deserves...which brings me to a rather interesting point...

how are the industry's HR teams geared up to handle crises like this for their employees....what the IBM HR team did or did not do seems quite blurred at this point of time as no one has brought it up...but isn't HR supposed to take charge of such situations and help the employees out? looks like most HR teams nowadays focus on hiring and exit interviews after the employees resign...hope we begin focussing on it quickly before employee retention policies become a thing of the past.

my experiences with various HR teams have been rather interesting...a curious mix of the good, the bad and the ugly...and am sure that i will have more of these experiences before i can put together a 9-commandment list of what employees should not do with HR and vice-versa.

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