Hi Friends!
One of my close friends has joined the new branch of a Mumbai-based HR consulting firm, which is in a joint venture (JV) with an MNC in a similar business. The Indian arm is about ten years old. He was headhunted from a competing organization. Now, within one month of joining, he realized he has made a big blunder. What was promised during the interview and the kind of image that was projected in front of my friend to lure him into joining this organization was far from what he saw once he joined.
First of all, there are delays in salary disbursement. There is no fixed date for that. Sometimes he gets it on the 17th, sometimes on the 27th. Last month, the salary cheque issued to him (which was a PDC) was returned by the bank due to insufficient funds. Moreover, in the last four months of his joining, telephone services have been withdrawn twice for 6 days each due to non-payment of bills. Similarly, internet services were suspended twice for similar reasons. There is no system of a salary slip, although this is an ISO 9000 certified company.
His branch is always short of funds. They do not have a bank account to be operated by the branch head. Payments for the vendors and service providers are sent by cheques from HO, signed by the MD, who is the only authorized signatory in the company. Obviously, they are always delayed. Vendors (for Stationery, Photocopying, Tea/Coffee, minor repairs, and maintenance, office sweeping, etc.) keep sitting in the office demanding their dues, for which my friend and his colleagues have to give excuses for the delay and listen to all sorts of unpleasant things, sometimes in front of other visitors.
Dear friends, can anyone offer any advice/help to my friend or his employer?
One of my close friends has joined the new branch of a Mumbai-based HR consulting firm, which is in a joint venture (JV) with an MNC in a similar business. The Indian arm is about ten years old. He was headhunted from a competing organization. Now, within one month of joining, he realized he has made a big blunder. What was promised during the interview and the kind of image that was projected in front of my friend to lure him into joining this organization was far from what he saw once he joined.
First of all, there are delays in salary disbursement. There is no fixed date for that. Sometimes he gets it on the 17th, sometimes on the 27th. Last month, the salary cheque issued to him (which was a PDC) was returned by the bank due to insufficient funds. Moreover, in the last four months of his joining, telephone services have been withdrawn twice for 6 days each due to non-payment of bills. Similarly, internet services were suspended twice for similar reasons. There is no system of a salary slip, although this is an ISO 9000 certified company.
His branch is always short of funds. They do not have a bank account to be operated by the branch head. Payments for the vendors and service providers are sent by cheques from HO, signed by the MD, who is the only authorized signatory in the company. Obviously, they are always delayed. Vendors (for Stationery, Photocopying, Tea/Coffee, minor repairs, and maintenance, office sweeping, etc.) keep sitting in the office demanding their dues, for which my friend and his colleagues have to give excuses for the delay and listen to all sorts of unpleasant things, sometimes in front of other visitors.
Dear friends, can anyone offer any advice/help to my friend or his employer?