Archive for trust

Does merit/experience matter?

A recent issue of Businessworld had an excellent article on how very few tech / internet companies receive angel funding in India, though they need it for their growth . What the people in the tech /internet industry fail to realise is that only when a tech /internet company is successful, can they fund / encourage smaller startups, but currently the conditions are extremely unfavorable.

In most industries an experienced person is valued and respected as they can teach younger people, who can avoid the mistakes they made. However, in some others, being young , good looking and /or having a powerful backer are the most important factors, merit does not matter much. The decision makers think that an experienced person can be forced to teach someone they approve for free, by harassing him/her and destroying their business. Unfortunately they do not realise that when a business turnover decreases, the biggest losers are their vendors, as there is less money available for buying new products and services.

Surveillance of a single woman entrepreneur

This is an open letter to those who have put a single lady under surveillance for the last 2 years or more, harassed her and extorted money.
She has worked very hard to save money for her retirement, do you dispute this?
Most of the powerful people who have harassed her will get a pension after they retire, as an entrepreneur, the only source of income in her old age are her savings.
Those who trouble her also are married, and have children who are likely to take care , help financially when retired.
The surveillance footage was not kept confidential, it was leaked to criminals.
The criminals have used the surveillance to steal her laptop and taken it to Delhi.
A detective agency is demanding several lakhs just as fees to trace the laptop with a 50-100% success rate.
She is a hardworking entrepreneur, unlike you, she has no powers to harass anyone and extort money.
Why do you misuse your powers to harass her, while remaining anonymous?
If your actions are justified, can you face her directly?

Dressing up / dressing well

People dress up/ dress well for different reasons such as:
1.they enjoy dressing up
2.If they have a spouse/boyfriend /girlfriend who they wish to impress.
3.company dress code if they are an employee of a company or attending a interview
4.To impress a customer, for a business owner meeting a customer or prospective customer.
5.For peer approval

A person being stalked or harassed for unknown reasons, survival/staying alive is a greater priority, so obviously he or she will not care about his/her appearance. One of the big advantages of dressing badly is that it gives a very good insight into the character of the person with whom one is dealing with. After all, everyone likes to be seen with a fashionable person. But without knowing the background of a person, it is incorrect to jump to conclusions about the knowledge and competence of the person, just based on his or her dressing style.

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Passing judgement

How do people judge a contestant in a Miss India or similar beauty contest?
By the way she looks, talks and carrys herself, it is after all a beauty contest.

How do the decision makers judge a lady in a tech industry where she does not need to interface or meet with any customer on a day to day basis?

The right answer: By speaking to her, understanding her knowledge of the technology, how it works, who handles the tech aspects

The obviously incorrect way : Put her under surveillance without her knowledge for years, have a few people stalk her and judge her solely on the way she looks, dresses and talks to non tech persons, without ever giving her a chance to defend herself directly. Nothing is ever done openly, because the people who do so do not have the guts to admit their harassment of a single lady.

 

Lack of humanity

A person considering an online career should be aware that many people and companies online are totally devoid of any humanity. Offline, if people see a single lady facing a problem, suffering,  at least some people go out of their way to help her, even if she is a total stranger.

Online , when powerful people see a single lady, who has spent a lot of her hard earned money with different internet companies(and also many years of her life), earning some money, they will put her under surveillance, will intercept her emails, delete files on her computer, try their level best to hack her computer and frame her for things she has never done.

Then they will expect her to “like” their girlfriends,wives and relatives ( who have not even spent Rs 10000 of their hard earned money on a website), teach them for free, form a company with them and make payments regularly to them. They will never have the courage to face her directly because their behaviour can never be justified publicly.

 

Handling betrayal

If a person is betrayed by a family member , in most Indian families, the family members will keep quiet since “family honour” is at stake.

However, while working in a professionally managed company, the attitude is just the opposite. If a person betrays the trust reposed in him or her, backstabs, cheats, lies or does not keep promises, the person betrayed is encouraged to speak out , tell everyone he or she knows about the betrayal.

This is a much better approach for several reasons which include :

  • People will know about the betrayal, the person behind it, so they will think twice about dealing with the betrayer.
  • If a person keeps quiet after being betrayed, the chances that he or she will be betrayed again are very high as people will take the individual for granted.
  • The person betrayed may get some compensation or redressal if he or she makes a noise about it. If no one knows about a problem, no one can help the affected person.
  • Telling others about the betrayal reduces the frustration and stress caused by the betrayal.

Betrayal by business associates

At times it is your business associates, vendors who will betray you.
If you a single lady, who has spent one crore rupees with the different internet companies in India and abroad, know more about certain aspects of the internet than almost anyone in the country(or the world) in a particular subject, not a single person in the internet industry will openly support you and you will be subject to identity theft and surveillance for years.

However, if you are young , good looking and a powerful person’s “girlfriend” or wife, you will have many supporters, even if you are mediocre with extremely limited knowledge of the internet.

Trusting banks

In India the awareness level about online businesses is low. Many bank employees do not understand the internet and judge a business owner based on his /her appearance and the (malicious) gossip of neighbours and make complete false assumptions. They also spread nasty rumours making your life difficult.

Today,  bank information does not remain confidential and there is no shortage of people who will stoop to any level to extort the money from you. In such cases, it is better to reduce the money you keep in your bank.

A true life story

You trust people, pay money and they betray you. An unscrupulous effort to grab the hard earned money of a single lady.

She worked very hard for many years so that she would not have to depend on anyone financially in her old age, but the people she trusted (who are very “respectable”) gang up to steal her money.