Salary on time

I resigned from my last company on 27th of that month after spending more than 5 years with them. The HR in our meeting points it out to me that as a PROCESS my salary for that month will be blocked. When I threatened to leave without giving a KT, then they released the salary.. This was after considering the fact that my final settlement was around 3 times my monthly salary.. (considering gratuity, 27 days salary for next month and reimbursements)....It felt very sad that company treats you in this way after you have given them more than 5 years. This was a culmination of 2 facts, processes over riding people, and ignorant/insensitive HR.

Most of the people told me that i was stupid to resign on 27th, should have waited till first. I did that because i wanted to serve maximum notice period and also once you have made up your mind to exit, it is best for all that you move out at earliest possible date.

Now just after 4 months with my present company i shall be making the move again. and this time I get my salary on time, and yes it makes me feel goood... In future again I would love to work with this company and its people. Probably the processes here are not that much set, or probably they check with persons manager and others for persons credibility before making such a decision.

I still wonder why does process need to override people? Process is always to facilitate and guide, its not words written in stone...Its not the final word....Everything needs to evolve and improve,,else it perishes, so its required to listen to people and improve process, rather than to lay processes on people. Or hiding behind process when doing something that is wrong...I strongly believe one does not need to be told what wrong and what's right, you just need to listen to your inner voice. Once can always lie to someone else, but lying to yourself is very hard. However in present days more and more people have killed their self, or stopped listening to it...

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Anonymous said…
"Process is always to facilitate and guide, its not words written in stone...Its not the final word...." Now that's a laugh
The oldest processes were called relegions and look how flexible they are.

I think its human nature to follow processes to the tee, and it's not a bad thing at all, a discovery programme opined how following laid down processes to the tee were building blocks for our society and the big differentiator from apes
6:06 PM
Ankur said…
@sachendra - Hinduism is one of the most flexible and ever evolving religion...
6:33 PM
Pankaj Jaju said…
Why would they "block" ur salary ? U served ur notice period then y this facade ?
1:23 PM
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