Equilibrium World, Memories of Nobody

Every company faces the problem of people leaving the company for better pay or profile.

Early this year, Arun, a senior software designer, got an offer from a prestigious international firm to work in its India operations developing specialized software. He was thrilled by the offer.

He had heard a lot about the CEO. The salary was great. The company had all the right systems in place employee-friendly human resources (HR) policies, a spanking new office, and the very best technology, even a
canteen that served superb food.

Twice Arun was sent abroad for training. “My learning curve is the sharpest it’s ever been,” he said soon after he joined.

Last week, less than eight months after he joined, Arun walked out of the job.

Why did this talented employee leave?

Arun quit for the same reason that drives many good people away.

The answer lies in one of the largest studies undertaken by the Gallup Organization. The study surveyed over a million employees and 80,000 managers and was published in a book called “First Break All The Rules”.
It came up with this surprising finding:

If you’re losing good people, look to their immediate boss. Immediate boss is the reason people stay and thrive in an organization. And he ’s the reason why people leave. When people leave they take knowledge, experience and contacts with them – straight to the competition.

“People leave managers not companies,” write the authors Marcus of Buckingham and Curt Coffman.

Mostly manager drives people away?

HR experts say that of all the abuses, employees find humiliation the most intolerable. The first time, an employee may not leave, but a thought has been planted. The second time, that thought gets strengthened. The third time, he looks for another job.

When people cannot retort openly in anger, they do so by passive aggression. By digging their heels in and slowing down. By doing only what they are told to do and no more. By omitting to give the boss crucial information. Dev says: “If you work for a jerk, you basically want to get him into trouble. You don’t have your heart and soul in the job.”

Different managers can stress out employees in different ways – by being too controlling, too suspicious, too pushy, too critical, but they forget that workers are not fixed assets, they are free agents. When this goes on too long, an employee will quit – often over a trivial issue.

Talented men leave. Dead wood doesn’t.

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After reading the material I have received, well it is indeed true. People leave not because they hate their job but mainly because they have something against their boss. If you know you are capable of finding new job because you have the talent, people tend to move on. But those dead woods will just cling to the company.

Now it made sense why some people in our company leaves. And it made me understand more now, that whenever I feel bored, it usually made me think of quitting my job. But a while ago, when we had lunch, we passed by a Job Fair. I can’t believe that more than hundreds of youngster, newly graduates or those people who are just looking for greener pasture are lined up and waiting for their turn. But of course I realized that I am still lucky. I am with a very good company, have a good boss and my learning is upgraded always.

But sometimes, people leave their work because of pride too. Even they don’t have a fall back after leaving the company, they still leave the company because of pride. I just simply don’t understand why would they leave just like that. Nowadays, finding a new job is very tough. Every year, there are new graduates with fresh idea to compete with you. So once you got a job, love it and don’t just settle that you know this certain field. Strive further to learn new things and improve yourself.

I am still lucky though and I am very thankful of that.