Wipro Technologies is at it yet again

Wipro Technologies, one of the so called elite IT services companies of India, is at it yet again. During the slowdown of 2000-2001, Wipro first offered fresh graduates jobs and later of reneged on its offer leaving hundreds of aspiring young graduates high and dry.

A few days back with the economy showing signs of slowing down globally, Wipro announced that it would make its work week a 6-day week and a work day a 9 hr day to compensate for the falling value of the US Dollar against the Indian Rupee. Real assholes. When the economy was up and Wipro was raking in the moolah, they never thought of shortening the work week or descreasing the number of hours per day.

And now they are at it again. Recently Wipro handed out job offers to hundreds of new engineers for the post of Project Engineer. Their initial pay package was set between Rs 2.75 – 3.00 lacs per annum. After a few days Wipro sent the poor guys another letter stating that due to the current global economic crisis the company cannot recruit them as Project Engineers, rather they would have to join in the BPO/call center business. Also their salaries would be reduced to Rs 1.2 – Rs 1.6 lacs per annum. What the f@#!^&% hell!!!!!!

The new graduates were obviously miffed and they went looking for answers from the HR department of the company. Arrogant as most HRs are in India, Wipro’s HRs informed them that it was a take-it-or-leave-it offer. Again, what the…….!!!!!!!!!!

Ladies and gentlement, Wipro has proved itself to be a repetitive offender and from the way it deals with its prospective employees it shows what kind of value system the company imbibes. There’s a lot of talk about foreign companies exploiting Indian labour and why won’t they when our own home grown companies are engaging in it? Is there nothing that can be done against such companies?