Dear Friends,
Thanks for responding. Your views help me understand that such beliefs do exist in a few other companies too. I shared this link with Rach and she felt a bit of relief to know that atleast other people too acknowledge that it is a ridiculous act.
Whats painful to learn is - inspite of such acts by the company, only God knows whether they are making any profit or loss. They literally squeeze the people. In my personal opinion - all of us have certain beliefs and we practise certain rituals for the benefit of our self. That is fine - but it should "NOT" be to an extent that it disturbs another person's personal freedom to work.
If any good signs show also the employers think that it is because of the pooja. Imagine - they changed the front gate direction of the company nearly four times in a year!
It seems they also dug some area and planted certain kind of plants. They scolded two people of the company who used a different path to go to their plant (this was within the campus!). So many things, when Rach told me I felt like laughing (it appeared silly to me!). But poor girl - I think she has lost her cool.
She is not worried much about all this as she tries to stay away, but she gets frustrated knowing that her new hires are feeling uncomfortable, that is also creating a feeling that she did a mistake by asking them to join this company.
What to say - they are very different. Everyone from the cleaner to the VP will talk to them on issues and decisions. Senior people have called her and asked what is their position in the company.
Spoke to her last evening and she told me that she is seriously thinking about her continuation - maybe in a week or so she might conclude what her next step is.
I feel she needs a break to relax and reassure herself that...She has reached a level where she is least bothered whether she has a job in hand or not. What to say - totally depressed.