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Sacked Wipro employee alleges harassment

An ex-employee of Wipro has filed a harassment case with the Electronics City police against some senior officials of the company after his services were terminated, reports Bangalore Mirror. Ram Manohar G, a native of Hyderabad, has alleged that he was confined to a room and harassed by his seniors, and was finally forced to quit. The 37 year old techie had been working as a team leader in the organization for the past 15 months.

According to Ram, he joined Wipro on Dec 3, 2007 and was unlawfully sacked on March 10 this year. Earlier he was working with MindTree in Bangalore. In his complaint, he alleged that he was confined to a room for a couple of hours at a stretch on several occasions by the higher-ups, and asked each time to resign. "It all started when recession hit the IT business. As far as my knowledge goes, some seven to eight thousand employees have been sacked during the last couple of months. But looking at my 11 years of experience and good track record, I was not really bothered about my services being terminated," he said.

In his complaint, he said, "I was confined by Anuradha Raju (Assistant Manager, TED, Testing Services, BFSI) in a conference hall inside the campus and was forced to sign on some blank papers. When I asked for the reason, she threatened that they would blacklist my name with NASSCOM and ensure that I did not get a job elsewhere."

Ram has also accused Ganesh Halapeti (Senior Project Manager, AXA, Australia) of abusing him in vulgar language over the phone. "He threatened that if I did not sign on the blank papers, my career would be ruined. I was also ordered to come to the office and work despite being sick." He also approached the HR Department about the incident, but no one paid heed to his grievance. "After I was sacked for no proper reason, I am in a state of shock and am facing acute financial problems."

Saurabh Govil, Senior Vice-President (HR), Wipro Technologies said, "We have not seen the complaint and would not like to comment before seeing it. The ex-employee in question, Ram Mohan, was employed with Wipro. We will not be able to provide any specific information on the individual due to employee confidentiality."

Govil said that the company would provide all the necessary co-operation and support to the investigating authorities in the matter. "We have a very robust process to deal with employee grievances. We have not had any complaints of this nature ever before. This may be an isolated case," he said.
Source: SiliconIndia

9 comments:

  1. Wipro is very famous and notorious for this, same thing happened with me. Thank god I left India in 2002, now well settled USA drive Merc Benz. Anyways I don’t have to live under 55K/PA, drive 15 year old car/ share a car with my neighbour, sleep on comforter on floor or walk in freezing cold for working for India IT company in USA, wait for my neighbour for shopping ride .Indian IT companies are pimps just operate on commission earned by sending people onsite or making people work in offshore for 18 hours a day. All they know is sell for cheap.

    I have decided in my life I never work for any Indian IT companies like Wipro , INFY,TCS even if all the Job goes to India. Put Premji behind the bar for screwing up young IT professional career.

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  2. Indian companies are very notorious while sacking people. Employees need to smell before and resign before such situation arises. I have gone through such phases in my career. We all professionals should form a force which will fight with the companies .Our courts and Nasscom are just supportive to companies they give a deaf ear to employees.

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  3. We need someone to monitor Indian IT Companies. We need represenation from IT Employees.

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  4. Is this same with Infy and TCS too ?

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  5. I have worked with Ganesh Halapeti... and he is one hell of a asshole... only hungry about spotlight and more than happy to put others in bad spot... never seen him getting any work pressure but his pet time pass has always been complaining about the work pressure and the system .... amazed to see how things changed after this undeserving career growth.. weird

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  6. It's horrific, I agree; another son of bitch is one Shyam Kumar, a program manager for Wipro in US. The bastard is a real power monger and an epitome of the Indian boss cum politician. Being a woman, I thought he would at least be a gentleman but he is a lust-ridden punk, cheap to the core and doesn't know how to behave with anyone. Luckily, we now have a better program manager and I'm still thankful to Wipro for that.

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  7. I too have worked with Ganesh Halapeti. He rarely has work pressure. I agree he only tries to be in the limelight. When somebody blames him he cleverly manages to pass on the blame to others. Wipro’s ethical values have gone down with sudden career growth of people like Ganesh Halapeti.

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  8. @anon- is it same Shyam Kumar, Wipro program manager at Kohl's? he is a big pervert- he looks like a rapist and must be abusing his own daughters. I was lucky to get away with my dignity intact.

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