Monday, March 06, 2006
I am told that everyone does it and that there's nothing wrong with it. Apparently, "dropping" a CV in response to an ad or just for the heck of it is totally acceptable despite the fact that you are employed elsewhere. Hmmm - either you get it or you don't and I guess this is one of those things that I just don't or rather, won't get.If CV dropping is acceptable, why is it always done on the sly? How come the people who will be most affected by someone's departure are always the last to know? Why can't people come clean and say, "I am looking around because I need more money, or I am bored here, or whatever? Because, they want to keep their options open!
I was informed recently, by a "trusted" employee, that he, like everyone else, has been sending his CV all over the place and has even gone to interviews, but NOT because he wanted to leave. Pray, why then? "Oh, just to see where I stand". Right! Self-esteem booster potion, at other people's expense. What crap. And what of the poor HR sod who has to sift through all these CVs, many belonging to people who are just checking out the scene and want to know what they are worth? Is his time and effort worth nothing? We all know how difficult it is to find the right people. So, when people who are happily employed go on these CV dropping trysts, just to gauge what someone else might pay them, an HR team is shortlisting candidates, conducting interviews, evaluating potential, discussing remuneration packages, etc. for losers who aren't even interested. And what about other potential candidates who may lose out? Is this decent, ethical behaviour?
Oh, and what of the "I respect you immensely and would never do anything to hurt you; you've always been like family" types? The ones who decide to move on (which is A-OK!), but don't tell you that they are planning some major changes until the day everything's done? Values, ethics, and business principles have been reduced to trite forms of nonsense that are found in annual reports and corporate corridors. Perhaps 1 in 6 million people "live" the values that they supposedly prescribe to. I guess I will be accused of being too sensitive and will be told "yay to hota hai". Haan, haan, of course hota hai bhai, I've been working since I was 15 and have encountered and dealt with every kind of wannabe, sleazeball, dumbass, and, it must be said, a bunch of absolutely stellar and wonderful people too. And I am in no way suggesting that people should not look for "better opportunities" but I do believe, with intensity, that there is a way to go about these activities. I guess this deceit-ridden world isn't for me, and like Microsoft Windows, I feel it should never have come out of beta testing.
8 Comments:
Yup. As long as human resource is treated as commodity (and not talent), people will continue to keep their bids open for more valuable auctioneers, not that I'm inferring that you have such an environ at your place. It's just becoming a larger workforce psyche, mainly because it is considered 'right' to be a career necessity (I call it hubris of the young) :) It is also something that is instilled deep in thier minds during highly competitive 'result oriented' education of today.
Values, sadly, have nothing to do with a workplace environment in this exceedingly corporate world, which is quite a paradox really, since most loyalty and care is still found in the so-called 'seth' or family business model than multinational imperial 'resource deployment', if you know what I mean.
Visited and enjoyed your blog after a long time. :)
ZH: I am relieved that the first comment to this post is from someone who "gets it". For most people, there is no such thing as "enough" and they are on an eternal quest to amass more and more - wealth, status, stuff, whatever ... competitiveness follows and life begins to get messy. It's tragic.
"multinational imperial resource deployment" - hehe, loved that!
Cheers and glad you enjoyed the blog.
S
There were times when in the "Valley", you'd see a whole bunch of job postings, sometimes same postings from different blood sucking recruiters, offering you a job that didn't exist - just to fill up their resume database! I guess there are bad apples on either side.
MA: Thanks for pointing that out. It's true, the glaring lack of honesty and values can be seen across the board, globally :-(
i bet that guy was just seeing whether he'd get a better offer else where and leave the moment he got it.
vintage: Bilkul. Nothing more to it. Wish people would just come clean especially when they profess to share values and beliefs. When the time comes to live those values, they pack up and run.
as for being 'family', this is a fair action for the types who treat their families this way, too: like those who inform their wives after years that they've got another spouse or (better still) tell them at breakfast, casually, in response to "what's new?" ... "er...I got married again last week to a friend of yours ... hehe" [happened two years ago to someone i met recently]
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