How to deal with Office Politics | Tips and Tricks | Career Talk With Anand Vaishampayan
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Sir I have 4 years experience in Testing. I left my job in 2017 DEC. I started Business, unfortunately it did not succeed.
Can I come back to IT job, please give suggestion
@@mnjssm2013 Yes
@@mnjssm2013 yes just start applying
Exactly
90 percent people are switching jobs because of politics .
And rest 10% learn politics 😂
10% are gulam and chamchas
Right
Agreed with you !
All companies have politics
In my first company one guy name Balaji and he jealous on me. He tried all his best with politics to ditch me . But I got better offer shifted 2 companies. But recently I came to know , that guy stick to the same company ,lost his job. Finally died in cardiac arrest at a age of 50 .people don't hard work and confidence on self do politics to travail their job. We never realize we are not going achieve in life by harming others .
In Wipro, i faced a lot of politics being 10 years of experience. I was not recognised whatever i did for Wipro website and someone else took that benefit and he raised higher designation.
Bro you should definitely jump ship. 10 years in Wipro is equal to almost 30 years it's that hard, I dono how your still there but trust me your better off in a start-up that supports you and grow mutually.
What a paradox. Wipro founder Azim Premji himself said that good employees leave companies because of bad managers.
Document as much as possible, develop writing and communication skills. Express your self more. Majority IT folks don't express themselves or don't ask questions.
Exactly right but I feel nervous and feel anxious even after 10 years of work ex, may be because of low confidence, how to improve
@@siddharthsharma5959 First check are you truthful to yourself?
how do you document stuff
@@sak7381 confluence, onenote, notepad++
Thats because you have to be ready to pay the consequences of asking questions, not only bosses,managers are intrigued by questions but peers too, and indians are ahead of everyone to judge the people who asks questions....that turns them on & darkens the political game...
I came across one such office politician, Bhaskar, He used to get the information using his regional bias and seniority, however while sharing he never helped with correct information at the right time.
Later, I came to know, he even summed up my approximate savings during my onshore deployment and passed a remark that I can sustain at offshore with my savings. Hence, I don't need any extension at onshore.
He is a master politician, as he never took responsibility or charge of any situation.
I had that experience, ppl becomes your friend and then backstab you, one need to be very cautious while making friends in new organization, analyze the behavior of your colleagues whenever you are making friends with anyone.
We can't trust anyone in the office i had this kind of experience set limits & do ur work
Friends in company are actually enemies. Find friendship outside work, other companies, school buddies, etc.
U r the first person who has come out with this nasty topic which is a crucial factor and if ignored can destroy a career, can destroy a home and surely many homes destroyed. But not a single politician in office is punished and always go scott free.
Applause for this initiative.
Actually HR is the one who plays most politics
When you are working for 2 years in the same company and your team lead says I don't see your work what you do..This is the most frustrating situation..Part of Politics from Team leads..
Those idiots are still staying in mnc's
this is exactly what I am going through. Working in a corporate for the past 1 and half year, things that I did in this little time have never been done before. Still I get to hear the exact things you wrote above from the wider team and seniors. All my recognition gets limited within my reporting manager. He would say personally to me that you have done a great job, but in front of seniors (who responsible for promotion etc) he would never take my name not even mention that I worked on that project. Even if there is a project that I did single handedly he would still not take my name.. Suggestions from the video above are worthless because this people are in the company for past 8-10 years, no body would listen to a new guy.. I just leave all this to KARMA.
You are single handedly handling then when your higher-ups comes you have to create problem in work you do, simple no one can rectify it then they will know your importance.
@@BongBrothersGaming Please check his other video I will give the link in my next comment. He mentioned the problem faced by employees who works but doesnt grow or not that relevant in market. Even after working hard, he or she is not able to state his core skillset as he constantly drifted from this work to that. In long run one employee must work on building his core skillset first, no lead or manager is going to do that for him.
I play politics 😂😂😂, I have to play, if not others will play with me... iam GOVT employ working with people and politicians side by side... so I must play.
In year 1998-2002, Harpreet Rana was playing polytics for his own selfish motives, taking personal benefits from people in company and hiding his lies and justifying himself as very wise and right person. He damaged stake holders, team leaders as well as other employees. After 20-22 years he is in depression and lost his job, career. family, money as well as health.
After 20 years he will be retired. What's the use
@@diyasaxena9956 what goes around comes around, our present actions are fruitfull in future. it is true really what we did in the past it will come in thousand ways its our decision to choose good karma over bad. I hope it will help to understand the karma theory.
@@diyasaxena9956 he lost his family, he will die alone
Who is he?
Karma pays back
Thank you for bringing up such a useful topic, Sir. Yes, I came across such ppl, they try to get as much info as possible. And they try to potray a negative picture of their competitor, so that they have better visibility.
There was guy in office who used to take bosses to daru parties and used have a close connection with the bosses.
Yeah. He is smart
Brilliant Video..to the point..I had faced similar information related problems..
My female co worker took advantage of "larki bazz" attitude of my boss and blackmail me if I don't agree with what she had asked, or don't follow her instructions she should brought false alligation on me. And she did. No one listened me
What's your real name
My senior is doing politics with me. He gives the difficult work which no one can do to me. And when it streamlined he gives it to another and say it's simple anyone can do it? He is my senior can't deny him that I will not do. But this is wrong and I feel helpless there😢.
I can handle my college but I can't do any thing of my senior like CFO.
Absolutely and very much useful insight!!
These points are also proven in the popular case studies of Anituddha Dasgupta case and Debashish Guha case.
Thank you Anand! This is helpful!
Hi sir, I am a regular viewer of almost all your videos.
Almost all of them are very useful.
My son is working in UST Trivandrum.
In our work place, unprofessional people are surrounded, If we ask them for doubts r related to topics, they wont help.Instead , they will work our task, witout giving Kt or info and become safe from TL or manager. It usually happens who are from Same state.
don't think too much....just focus on doing good work...nothing else matters
Nah man..looks like you are very junior..reality is that it really matters..only doing good is never good
my lead Prakash Jha in TechMahindra , was in the same designation as me, having lesser technical skills and communication abilities kicked me out of the project for no reason.
The access from client was taking time, yet i had started reaponding to mails and resolving srs, he got so scared he got me out of the project.
Looking back it helped me get a job in tcs withing next weeks time. While hes still slogging in same company.
But honestly, nothing works with these scrupulous people with high insecurities and low skills
Your video is nice, but I firmly disagree with you when you suggest to reach out to HR.
1. Your suggestion about reaching out to HR: This will almost never work because this way it just back fires on the employee because of the symbiosis of HR and Project Managers. This is a sad truth but 99% true that HR would not help much. It is just unlucky aspect for the employee that this happens a lot in the IT industry and that too in the country.
2. Then there is a lot of partiality on the ground of regions from which the employee belongs versus from the region the manager belongs.
3. Then there is a lot of partiality considering the mother tongue of the employee versus mother tongue of the manager.
There are many more but from my understanding these are the major ones.
Let me know your clear articulate thought on thise aspects.
Thanks for the video.
I absolutely agree with you Abhishek. Hr and Operations are hand in hand, so its not use going to the Hr. Only those of same region, mother tongue and those who does bucketing will survive.
Clearly you are right...agree with u...I think people in the top management donot realize this,
Sir, I am a service engineer who works hard with honesty and gives my above 100%+ without seeing the time at my workplace. But my reporting manager always tries to make rumors about my working strategy, honesty, and time management skills. but I always complete my work within a period. He tried to fire me but higher management knows my working output therefore they gave me confirmation but asked my reporting manager. After that, he is playing lots of politics and tried to humiliate in front of my colleagues for a longer period, but the last few days ago, I answered appropriately in front of my office, He went on leave for a few days and started playing politics against me and Now there are some of my office members are also doing same with me and telling me, I have to follow his rules and regulations. According to them, I have to follow their order as well as they want. I have also discussed this with my higher management but they just follow the rule, keep calm and follow him as well as he wants. Please tell me what I should do. Sir, I am waiting for suggestions on who assist me to get out of this bad condition.
Your only option is to switch from company.. Don't be scared about interview process..
Glass broken is broken.. I also come across such situation, but fortunately he was moved out.. try to switch to the different team or different company. Chill buddy, your reporting manager can’t hold your career progress if you are talented, just Simply move away..
They won't thrive for a long time. Change will come to all. Relax, continue the good work and take break from work regularly. Things will change surely.
Thank a lot for you advise sir thank you it help me lot
What if your promotion is based on rating system and what if the rating is in hands of the person playing politics? I have come across one who is my reporting manager and plays silent politics and doesn't share my efforts to his top management.
In our company one person is there ,onsite lead (not 😃 sure how he went onsite with 0 knowledge ) every issue resolved by me but he is sending mails to clients claim he has done that work
I am also facing office politics wherein a person of my team of same level as me always tries to put me down in front of my manager. I have joined a new company and it has been less than an year now. That person is in this company and in the same project for about a decade. No doubt he has more grip and knowledge about the project in and out but is reluctant to share any information personally in case I need any help....indicating that he can't spoon-feed me everytime. Whenever I ask him anything he asks me to email him and he replies his answer keeping my manager in CC to show that he is helping me even for small things. Since I am new to the project I am struggling to grasp things at the same pace as him. In some cases I have also made some mistakes in my understanding and for the same he points out my mistakes in the team call in front of our manager but never approaches or corrects me personally or offline. I do not have any grudge against him because he is perfect in his work and in good eyes of manager. However, I feel myself downsided for not being able to be as efficient as him. This is something demotivating me over time.
Yes, you are right such people exist. Do you think enough documentation or knowledge base is available or is being created and updated over a period of time? That is the only way to remove people dependency to an extent.
@@CareerTalk Hi Anand, there is no process of creating such documentation or KB articles in my project. The main problem is not documentation but his attitude. He tries to become the voice of our manager and cross questions me over my updates in the daily call. Since he is aware of all the activities I am doing he portrays in front of my manager that he is very concerned about the team and work and no one is liable to bluff the manager technically. I feel if he is really so concerned then he can tell me upfront if I am lacking somewhere......but he waits till the next day call and provides his inputs in front of the team and manager. If I reach out to him to ask anything, he just replies 1 or 2 liner answer or asks me to email him so that he can again reply me keeping my manager in loop 😊. Now I have stopped interacting with him much and trying to focus on my work.
Faced the same in my first company
Learn as much, move when ready.
@@wonderfulworldwelive That's what I am doing....but the market is not so good to move
Thanks for sharing valuable information. We need to take care of all these things which you shared in this video.
Thanks 🙏
Thank You Anand Shinde 🙌
good advice...
Very useful information, I have experienced this. Insecured Line Manager , won't allow his team members positive things to get noticed. Always try to manipulate the things. And are liability to company.
I don't know all this things before entering into software field i was isolated. Great knowledge given by you.
Hi Khan, Glad you found it helpful. Do share it in your network 🙌
From my experience I can say that insecurity and jealousy is the number one reason in office politics, they feel threatened by you and so want to defeat/ crush you by doing politics. I have been mentally disturbed many times due to this, best way I could find is switching the company.
Most awaited video.....loved it
Thanks a lot Vikram 👍
Sage advice.
this information very useful during career growth, indeed some dat we come across this situation, thanks for enlighten info
Thanks Venky 🙌
I had one senior manager in Infosys and collected all project issues and then she used all these in her deck to the management. I know this after 2 to 3 months to go and check the share point documentation
Good luck man.
Good one
If you share ideas, views, strategy which are against your Team Lead or Manager we may come under scanner and if you try to show them the mistakes we had done executing a project or plan there we are put in PIP(Performance Improvement Program) this had happened to me
Most leads and managers are not leaders at all. They are insecure and perhaps why they do it.
There is one guy who always pings in team whenever critical information is shared when we are in a group call of more than 10 people. He does to ensure that I don't get the information shared. This is a pattern I observed.
Either he should leave or you should. Prolonged experience can affect mood and well being.
absolutely right Sir
Thanks Azmol 🙌
Subscribed your channel.. thanks for your efforts
One of the proof of Politics I faced is regarding Onsite Opportunites. One sperson single handedly exploited the entire rotational policy for deserving candidates. He persuaded me only to clear the deliverables. On the other hand he was fixed in the onsite. People going and people coming but he and his close ones are staying out there on a continuous basis. Such an idiotic person. I waited till 6 years and when my turn came someone went and I came to know 4 days before his travel. Surprising fact is that travel request was raised quite long back. I don’t know there is no justice or karma for this kind of people. Don’t what management is doing.
Hello sir@careerTalk, thanks for all the inputs that you are giving to the society with your experience. You are doing a fantastic job in helping out someone's career to grow bigger. My doubt is while looking for a switch after gaining experience how to find the company that has good growth, professional satisfaction and most importantly work life balance?? Because this is what we all live for. Kindly let me know sir. Thanks in advance 🙏
There was this Guy who is very friendly and when there is some work and we ask him he says that it will just take 2 min to do, but will not do it. We would need to open a ticket and he would send an email to all clients and then make it an issue and then wait until the last min to get an escalation and then fix it after the escalation. Think how this works, he knows that its a simple 2 min job but will not do it until it is escalated to everyone to get visibility.
😂. He is wise lol
Not his fault, that is how corporate works.
It was because if office politics, ikeft my private job and joined government officer job ,best decision ever taken 😊
Good job
Thanks :)
That person taking all information from you and credit stealing stamping it on their name is the Boss itself in one of my assignments, the boss was incompetent but again such people thrive and her team members didnt have any rescue other than separating from that Boss. What's your suggestion in such situations when the Boss itself is the credit stealer, kind of narcissist personality whom no one can correct.
Great Video, I have faced almost 4 years of politics from one person in my organisation and her name is Kavita.
Glad you found it helpful Suhasini
I don't understand where toxic people come from. Why are they that way and how did they learn politics. That should be coming from the environment one grew up in...
Anshika - Blame game
Oh yes, passing the blame to someone else is also one of the things we need to be careful about.
Hi at the time of learning even if you ask doubt they will not reply in appropriate manner what should I do in that case
One more question expecting 12 hrs job in TCS few projects..if we are raising any concern not consider manager and HR simply saying try to complete your task early then you can leave early..But Manager expectation to support till 12 clk nt. . don't know how to handle this one.. family+ 12 hrs job really full stress.. 😭😭😭
Look out for another job.
TCS Mai utna kaam kaise hota h bhai ? Mere dost logg 2 ya 3 ghante kaam krte h har din bass aur maze krte h
Best case scenario..upskill and switch
Nikhil 🙌
Not as easy as said...
Atleast You need to face politics until you upskill and switch??
When you join a place..the first day you start getting questions about past work why you left and so on. How do you escape that?
I cannot mention his name and also cannot mention if its a past or present scenario, but going to tell something about it. He is an experienced member of our team. He has a lot of project related knowledge. The entire team is kind of dependent on him. Now, he is taking full advantage of this situation. He stopped taking tasks and assigns every tasks to rest of the team even though some of us are of same role. His attitude is quite filthy. He talks in a very arrogant and authoring manner to everyone. Specifically, he tries to keep everyone down by somehow showcasing to the higher management that no body is doing nothing except him. Everyone is dependent on him. This is the reason he decides whose name gonna be showcasing while delivering a task to the client and he picks one or two of his favourite members and showcase their efforts, but doesn't wanna recognize equally everyone in the team. This way, there has been a very bad and toxic working environment that has been created and no one seems to be liking this project. As the appraisal is closing in, he goes on sending escalating mails against his own team members for simple reasons. This leads to a tremendous unwillingness to continue with the project and hampering personal life as well as work life balance. The office stress sometimes kill...I need to know a way to just get out of this project! I know quitting is not a solution but sometimes you need to be better stay jobless rather being in this sort of toxic environment.
Why don't all of you team up and simply complain to your manager? since you'll be speaking as a team your concerns would be taken seriously.
This is what when power goes in the hand of wrong people
I think most of the people are going or went through this situation...one thing puzzels me a lot that by having such major dependency on one person in the team, who doesnt share....isnt it management or leadership failure?-than the team members who are victim of untoward arrogance?
Sai viswanath always framed me that I am quarrelsome and framed to my managers hence made my exit from company, company name project44.He used to trigger somehow even verbally in office and later went to slack to make written communication and there I replied to not remind me of my duties and to this my manager was annoyed
There are more seniors than me who are less educated than me. They use me and still don't give credit enough. One another circumstance where politics is played is while allotting of Foreign Projects.
If someone quits due to unhealthy environment in a team, is it okay to mention it in the interview with the next organisation? The resource may not know what feedback will be shared in the background check by the old boss. Please share your advice to handle this situation in the best possible way. Thank you.
Never share any negative feedback about your previous organization or team..it puts your bad impression.. always share a contact number only of that person who was good with you in that organization, maintain good relations at least with one or two in the team..and u r safe...
Always say you are looking for the next role to grow in your career
V right
Politics b it partnership , pvt ltd, or Theo's most common Corporates.... exist n influence the hr process ...
I see one manager Bhattacharya (Wipro) who given dump resource for KT and both finally took my EC rating and given MCE. It hurts 2 yrs career in Wipro. I got EC in all first 3 quarters and then changed to MCE in final quarter.
My previous IT manager Rohit prajapati because of him i can not get actual salary hike.
In which organization are you working?
How to handle colleague who recently turned politician... Very difficult...
One question why managers always not working But getting more support from management and HR ...
Developers doing day and nt work no benefit..
I joined new company 8 months back..Project is complex..Total 4 members in team including lead.
Lots of work and team members are only 4.
No proper documentation.. Kehte hai Spoon feeding nhi krenge..
Woh bat sahi hai lekin cheeze itni sari hai baki chizo pe dekhne ke tym nhi milta..Fir kehte hai tum
Productive nhi ho.. Jo kaam dia woh complete kra...kuch reh bhi gyaa..time ki wajah se..
6 months bad PIP pe dal dia woh bhi bht sare tasks ke sath..ab un tasks me bhi thode bht he hue hai..
Sath me office ka kam bhi krna..tasks ke sath(including certification clear krna hai )...
Help sahi se koi krta nhi hai lead kehta hai team members se pucho muj par tym nhi hai...
Frustrated now what can I do..Can I switch it
Switch
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In my environment there is a person called "x". When ever there is new project come. He will take help from me and he build the project. Before project was close to deliver, he didn't care my suggestions if there is need. and also he treats me like I don't have any knowledge.
The same thing happened 4or 5 times to me. Infront a senior management persons he treat me in well manner.
I convey this entire story to my HR and she says, ask the things infront of managers then only he can sort.
I don't know what to do, could you please 🙏 help on this.
Mr. Vaishampayan, the bad part of politics is favoritism motivated by regionalism at my workplace. Newly promoted but old tenured director is indirectly forcing his character n style on people. Finally, he was demoted from team manager to team player, however, his urge for politics doesn't stop yet he is indirectly brewing childish politics at office by unnecessarily commanding respect. His name is "A. Boyapati". How to deal with his maniac, whose role is limited to just an admin person in India. Well, ignorance is a good thing but he is still influencing to have more natives from his hometown with the help of his few pawns. Workwise, he is the worst in the domain knowledge, when someone challenges he hides in the rattle hole Or builds a grudge against other intelligent beings. Your advice please sir.
With whom I hav to talk regarding politics. If I'm victim.
If the person from senior management then with whom do you talk? I made sure to include his seniors in all mails, that my work (may be insignificant or worst) is reached to top management. I used to make weekly reports with remarks and send them irrespective of the protocols. That way middle man didn't had any chance to side me nor make negative comments about me. When questioned by top management I clearly told them I don't have faith in middle man. After a year, middle man was transferred to another department.
Amit Keshari(syn): negative publicity, defaming, spreading wrong word to gain momentum
Sir, I want speak fluent English can give me suggestions to me
Hi Syed Farooq, Start with reading english books and newspapers. The more you read the better it is. Also read english newspaper loudly for ten minutes every day. If you do this consistently for 90 days you will see a lot of improvement. My best wishes are with you 🙂👍
@@CareerTalk Thanks for your suggestion.
Syed, speaking strength will only come by speaking. Don't worry about mistakes or people mocking at you. Keep talking only in English. Watch English movies with subtitles, listen to English radio broadcast, podcast. Use headphones for all these. Read English books,fiction or non, journals, refer to dictionary for meaning , to get more vocabulary.
Ashish khurana and ankit prakash in capgemini (gurgaon). Team:-AAA Security In networking.
Satyaki, Abhijit, Pritam, Subhendu, Durlab
My manager used this method of calling via whatsup call..discussed on employees and cut the trust among employees themselves...where they used to be friendly earlier..manager made everyone his puppets
Nitin Pauskar and Pratik Gaikwad
Few people are worst …even few in good high position in HR also hav cheap attitude n it s frustrating…. How to tolerate such people? Though I avoid.., they simply create issues unnecessarily
Politics is a part of regionalism.
I want to consult you in phone... please tell me the process
As far as i know only indian companies have politics at a higher rate than with foreign companies....maybe it is because of lack of knowledge that people try to offset by being aggressive and playing dirty politics.....
False spread to upper management
Lying to upper management.
Voluntarily sharing info not a correct info to managers after discussions with engineers.reluctant to share important key points for project .demotivating the engineers.
The most politically motivated person I’ve come across was Amit Giri
He destroyed office culture… he was from QA background and forbid whole QA to roam with developers… he forced ppl to lick his boots for good annual appraisal, most ppl from dev team incl me left within 1-2yrs
God save anyone from such toxic env. 🤜🏽🤛🏽
Rakesh
Develope informal relations translates into buttering
What a nightmare for introverts! Cant we just effing do our job and come back home please 😖😖
Ramesh baira be alert with this guys he is a spoon of manager sharing information from colleagues and spread with seniors
Ravi
Abhishek Kumar Mahato.
Anybody busy getting information/ in phone then that fellow surely ditch you one day. Top management should first fire these people as they don't contribute much to the work but just act like postman and pass the information.
Aahh...... sadly me
Kambikumaran
RATS
I want to become like you, Lecture in front of camera. :)
Kp and Darshi
Telegu guy from my office
I have a Marathi Guy (Has no basic manners and slacks at work), Kannada Guy (Sucks the boss and gets promoted), and Malayalam girl (Creates an artificial bottleneck of Information and escalates offshore before the client), Telugu Guy (Who has no communication skills but gets promoted), a Bengal Guy who has no knowledge of what he is doing and is never on time. absolutely no reason to bring Region/Language into this conversation, I also saw people who are from same/different languages who are most professional and helpful.
uday he is threating me he is my tl
Vam
Stay away from Politics and feminist boss
I am facing an issue with one of my colleague. Being a scrum team, this person always keep whining about the inability of his peer who is unable to do the work and this person has to carry 2 peoples work. Apart from that he keeps arguing during the meeting again and again. Being the manager, I spoke to this trouble creator but it's invain. He does not approach me rather approaches the dev lead and the PO and keeps whining about the other person's inability to work and how he is extending extra hours of work every day and he works every weekend. He always argues & is like pain in the A$$. I am planning to get rid of him from the team as he is a poison in the team.