{mosimage}'Welcome to IT!' This is what my friend told me when I was shocked at the sudden lay off in our company. Fortunately (or unfortunately) I was not one of the victims, but the experience was shocking, sending shivers through the spines. This is an inside of otherwise extremely glossy IT field. Here just the revenue generated by you is counted, there is nothing like recognisation of your talent, humanity, blah.. blah.. Of course every industry retains the employees who are productive for the company, but only in IT the axes fall based on the life of the project. No matter how much talented you are, if your project ends / terminates, automatically your service also is terminated without indication. I just am concerned about the well being of my friends who faced termination recently.
In our case the good thing happened is that those guys were given a month salary as bonus, a relieving letter dated in future and give positive reference to their future employers. Also they had been given access to their systems for 10 days to practise in the platform to docment their knowledge, for their future interviews. Ofcourse even though we all are upset, the management's gesture towards the victims deserve a mention.
I always noticed that it is MANDATORY to keep oneself in limelight or "visible" to top level management, so that when it comes to ticking off the lay-list, the management should be reminded that this guy / gal is the one who did this / that. Whomever prefering to stay in the back end were the first one to get axed. This is what the management calls as "Communication". In my colleagues' case, the guys who were terminated were the ones despite being talented, didn't take much efforts (proactive) to tim-tom their talents.
Right now all my prayers are that they mustn't mind whatever happened, keep the past aside, let them get into good assignments. We all are trying to get them placed through our friends network. They all deserve more because they are really talented. No doubt they will land in something better that where they were. All they lacked was the knack of marketing themselves / position themselves as "inevitable" to the company. Above all, they must not become cynical about the loyalty and relationships towards the workplace. May be they might have learnt a lesson "Never fall in love with the working place".