Infosys female Project Managers blamed
By Techgirl

Infosys, with more than 100,000 employees spread over 50 offices around the world, is the second biggest Indian tech company following TCS.  Under the leadership of tech icon and Infosys co-founder, Mr. Murthy, the company has set new benchmarks for transparency and honesty.  But it is still not immune to petty employer-employee spats which make it to the public domain.

Now Technoparktoday has published a bitter, farewell letter from an Infosys veteran who quit their offices in Technopark, Kerala.

Technoparktoday caters to an audience in Kerala and so begins their introduction by asking:

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Lots of discussions happened here, as part of different posts - Why Technopark Managers (keralites) are not professional/humane? Still it is not clear whether its a truth or that’s how they appear in front of employees. But this time we have to consider it as a serious concern. And this is an opportunity to dig to find what is wrong with the managers. Here is a farewell letter from an Infosys employee. We masked some of the fields to protect the identity.

From: XXXXXX. XXXXX[mailto:XXXXXX@infosys.com]
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 11:50 AM
Cc: XXXX XXXXXX; XXXX XXXXXX
Subject: GOODBYE, INFOSYS!!
Bcc: Intentional
CC: Not at all coincidental
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Parts of the emotional farewell letter at Infosys read

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On this day, when I’ve taken the decision to quit Infosys Technologies Ltd., I feel that this fits in quite perfectly as the first line of my “elaborate” farewell mail.

I still wonder why Infosys scrapped the interview from its placement process for a single calendar year. Had the interview been there, I feel that I might not have been selected as one among the 60-odd final year engineering students at College of Engineering, Trivandrum on that fateful day in August, 2003. The journey at Infosys began a year later and it has been quite an eventful tenure spanning 4 years and 7 months. Let me stick by my subject line and describe my life at Infosys.

I have never felt so disheartened and helpless during my entire lifetime, as I’ve felt during my stint at Infosys, Trivandrum. I’ve had the opportunity to work with two inhuman, mean, self-centered ladies, who were designated as my project managers, here at God’s own country. The dastardly acts of one of them in PE, Trivandrum do not even deserve a mention in this mail. The other lady in IVS, Trivandrum made me understand the “Use and throw” rule, a term coined by one of my best friends after joining this company, in Trinfy. This lady considers herself as a dictator and the omnipotent, and treats the people unfortunately destined to work with her as her slaves. I would never forget the mail I received from this lady, my manager, informing me about my release from the project. The mail I received from that moron on the 29th Oct, 2008 read: “Since the transition is complete, I am releasing you from the project with effect of 23rd Oct 2008”. I literally cried at this despicable gesture from the manager of my project, into which I had put my heart and soul for almost a year and a half.

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This diatribe against the Infosys Project Managers continues in the same bitter vein.

But this letter evoked some strong responses from some male techies at Technopark who have strong views about female managers.

Sarath K wrote into the Technoparktoday blog:

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This shows what is happening in companies like Infosys. The irresponsible female managers are always making problems everywhere.  They don’t know how to treat people, and how to motivate them to get the goals in a corporate world.

There are only a few exceptional female managers or leaders that have made a difference in the world.  All others were utter failures and they always created unwanted trouble. Because females are not meant for leading anything.  Their natural instincts like jealous, weakness and fear will always with them and that is the psychology and that’s how the world works.

There is no wonder, why the female managers acted so. For the No.1 reason they are Females and No.2 Reason is they are from Kerala. They don’t know the meaning of being a good professional in today’s corporate world, especially in a technology company like Infosys. Hope the management who is reading this can understand the pain of the people who is working under such managers.
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I think everyone needs to just chill out a bit. Guys, there are good male managers and good female managers.  And vice versa.  And you may not agree with me but Mr. Murthy will always credit half his success to his wife.

Techgoss note:  Techgirl is a senior Tech journalist who reports on the IT, KPO and KPO Sectors for a leading media house.  In her spare time, she dabbles in satire in her blog
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