The bonds we signed...(IT people)

I love Human Resources as a subject. Leave the theory part alone. I would give anyone anything (almost anything) on any given day to do that part for me. But the idea of sitting and thinking of HR problems and thinking of possible reasons and solutions for them is interesting. I dont get much time to do that.

But then we have this great prof who is teaching us HR nowadays(the same person took my IIM A interview..that too was a...er...different experience :o)). The way relates various cases to releavant topics and the amount of knowledge he has is just amazing (only one problem, he moves his hands too much while teaching. So if u r the kind of person who would look at both the person and his hands while listening to him/her, then you would get totally lost. Eg. The point is goin in the east direction or rather its coming in your direction, but the hands are moving in north east and south west direction, so you would get lost. If you couldnt understand the previous point on misdirection, plz dont strain ur nerves. what is to follow is what i intend to say in this blog, not bout gestures and directions :) )

Yes, so what i was saying is that that other day we were dealing with a case on labour relations (all these cases might sound very fundoo. they are. But thn we the people who read them arent. Because after the class, anyone hardly remembers anything :)). So there was this discussion going on in class bout strikes and employee contracts etc.

Sir told us that there cannot be a unidirectional employee contract wherein one is bonded to work for an employer.

I too had heard of this funda when i was working for an IT company in Blore. Most of the IT companies have this funda of signing bonds when we enter. So i asked the prof bout it and the reason of why one has to pay the money when he/she quits the company within the probation period.

The prof explained it in a very nice manner. He took me as an example (i remember him doing something similar with the questions that he posed to me in my interview :)). He said say Anurag joins an IT company. The bond which he signs has written on it that (not the exact wordings but the idea is the same...also note that i am exagerrating this account a bit :o) ):
Anurag is a lost person with an education which has no relevance whatsoever. His knowledge is zilch and he needs educational training to be able to work and earn a living in this organization. Hence we are providing him training in our facilities on our expense. So its equivalent to us lending him money. The money amounts to so n so Rs or $. If he works his arse off or us for so n so many years (say 2 or 1) only then can he releive himself of the favour we have done to him and kinda repay the amound we spend on him.

This is what the bond says (the idea, not the words or the exagerration :o)). So in effect the bond we sign is one of borrowing money. And no court in this country or any country is going to stand by you if u default on payment of money borrowed.

I dont know if u find it interesting, but i found it amazing. I dont know exactly why. But maybe i myself had signed such a bond, a copy of which is still there at home in Guwahati. Maybe coz i have seen my friends in other companies pay money for breaking or premature termination of these bonds. Maybe coz i am interested in people and such issues as such. Or maybe (very high possibility) that was one of the few lectures i managed to stay awake :) (actually the number of lectures i stay awake in nowadays is increasing, but its still a very sorry number. So i plan to stay awake in all three lectures 2moro. I knows its a big ask when i plan to sleep now in ten minutes and wake up in 1.5 hours, but then lets try. 3 shots of strong caffeine before all three lectures should do me some good :o).
Caffeine....nicotine.......life is beautiful....but short :) )

So dost log, this was today's gyan session from my side. If i get to know more such interesting fundas, u can rest assured i would share them (in a similar or more exagerrated manner) with u on this blog.

So stay tuned (sometimes i think i should have been an actor. But whenever this thought occurs to me, i remember the one act play i acted in during T-nite, and my legs which were aching to fly me across the stage into oblivion, and my ears which were trying so so so hard to shut down from hearing the boos from the crowd, and my eyes which wanted to shut down so that they could not see the same confusion and frustration on the faces of my fellow actors...this account is again a bit but very slightly exagerrated. But then whenever i think of this thing, n i think of that unplesant experience in the play, i also think....what the hell...bring me the script :o) )