Background of the situation:
Sarah is an experienced engineer with good knowledge of her working domain. She gets into an organisation and starts a new journey. Being quick and independent, She completes the assigned tasks with in the prescribed time and contributes positively to her team.
Charan is an experienced engineer basically from research background and works under the same manager as Sarah but in a different project work.
Sarah and Charan reports to a same manager.
During the appraisal, Sarah gets good feedback from her manager about her work. When asked about her concerns, She informs about the increase in pay and possibility of being moved to other teams gradually over time.
This is not well received by her manager who in turn negotiates that she is paid to industry standards and anyway since she is married , she need not expect more hike.
Sarah is very upset about this attitude of her supervisor but ignores it and continues to do her work.
Meanwhile there is a new project which has shorter deadline and Sarah is asked to complete her task at an assigned date and moved into the new project.
This makes Sarah even more upset as she is not given enough time to be settled in new work and she has no means of providing her feedback as her manager is not open to her concerns.
Charan is assigned a task which he doesnt like very much but since he do not find any other project he tries to do justification in best possible manner to his assigned work.But all his ideas are neglected by his supervisor which in turn upsets Charan because he do not have a road map for himself in the current project.
As Sarah learns the new work on the job, She tends to do mistakes initially. This is not well received by her manager and he in turn humiliates her for bring bad quality into work.
As Charan's work do not have direct impact on production programmes , his work is always looked down up by his supervisor.
These issues pile up over time and One Fine day , it erupts as follows:
( One on One meeting between manager and Sarah)
Manager: You had been working well in the past but of late looks like you have a problem. Your work is not very good.
Sarah: Everybody needs some time to settle down in new job. Evaluating before this time is not correct on your part and You cant assign my work to another new graduate based on his qualification because it is experience that matters to handle issues.
Manager: You dont have to tell me about what to decide and whom to give work. Since you didnt complete your work on time , You have integrity issues. Also , You must be knowing team mate's salary which is again an integrity issue , thats why you had asked for good hike. Also , I heard last year one day you left office at 3pm with out informing me. I know why ladies leave office in between. I didnt take all those in to your merit considerations.
Sarah: Please do not assume things. I dont know any one's salary, As I am in the industry , I have fair understanding of where I stand. Also wrt timings, I didnt leave office any time before office hours. Please check the swipe timings. Also you should have brought that matter immediately and not this late after a year.
The conversation continues and Sarah breaks down in tears and walks out of the meeting.
From next week, She is on a job hunt and decides to leave the organisation as she has not received the expected merit from the organisation and due to bad rapport with her supervisor.
( One on One meeting between manager and Charan)
Manager: Your work do not have any impact at all. I think its waste having such an experienced resource.
Charan: You do not understand the sincerity and hardwork , I have put in this work.
Manager: I think you are not correct fit in my team.
Charan: If you are going to talk all this, lets go to HR and higher boss.
Manager realizes not to exaggerate the issue and puts and end immediately to the conversation.
Charan continues to work and informs higher boss about his moving out of the team over time.
Sarah finds another offer and leaves the job.
This situation has many learnings:
1. First of all , Manager is not matured to handle delicate situations and his way of talking is very rude and arrogant rather than addressing his employee's concerns.
2. Sarah must have immediately informed higher boss/ HR instead of being in the conversation for so long.
3. This also indicates that women tend to give up things more easily even though they may not be at fault.
Although Sarah continues her career in another new organisation, This is an important lesson on why many women fail to reach higher management in the orgnisation.
The above scenario is just an example.
Request all those especially ladies reading the post to send in your comments.
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