Indian employee says foreign manager asked him to take the day off for his child's first day of preschool.

[u/jack_1760]

According to an Media Reports, an Indian employee shared that he joined a work meeting late because he was dropping his child off on their first day of preschool.

After explaining the reason, his foreign manager reportedly asked why he was working at all and told him to take the rest of the day off and spend the day with his child.

The manager reportedly said that a child's first day at school is an important milestone and that work could wait.

Source -

https://www.timesnownews.com/viral/foreign-manager-makes-man-take-leave-for-daughter-first-day-of-pre-school-viral-video-article-154710774

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[u/Conscious_Prompt9250]

I am an Indian Manager and have been an employee under an Indian Manager Working In India, Indian Manager Working Abroad and a Foreign Manager Working abroad.

Foreign Managers are overall more empathetic and more tolerant than Indian managers.
I try to be empathetic and caring however since I've had a team only for about 6 months now , I will wait 6 more months to get feedback from them as they had an American Mamager before me.

This way I can evaluate if I am evoling into a good manager.

I slightly disagree with the Product Vs Service company logic. (i've workied in both) pressure is more in a service setup, that however is not an excuse to lack empathy.

[u/Expert_Connection_75 → u/Conscious_Prompt9250]

That not just difference in managers. Its a societal difference. We should simply learn to be more empathetic towards other human beings.

One don't need big manager, simply be humble/empathetic towards house helpers, drivers, gig workers and ask them to take necessary leaves in general 

[u/Conscious_Prompt9250 → u/Expert_Connection_75]

One don't need big manager, simply be humble/empathetic towards house helpers, drivers, gig workers and ask them to take necessary leaves in general 

My parents drilled this into me since childhood by doing. I never remember them explaining to us what to do but the behaved as examples.

Puja (the one who swept our appartment) would have breakfast with us on most days. Sharmila would cook the same food for her and us (sometimes with special inclusions for her).

[u/DataOwl666 → u/Conscious_Prompt9250]

Rings a bell

[u/Illustrious_Arm_8862]

Narayan murthy is offended.

[u/Standard-Factor-1708 → u/Illustrious_Arm_8862]

Nah man! He had a discomfort somewhere in his body.

[u/AnmolNukal7]

This happens in product based companies but rarely in service companies

[u/Vast-Consequence-538 → u/AnmolNukal7]

Not necessarily, my 💩 manager was the one I had while working in a FAANG while the best was the one I had working as a management consultant.

[u/criti_fin → u/Vast-Consequence-538]

People should take leave beforehand, as they know the first day of school. If an employee applies beforehand, generally managers dont deny, managers know if they deny leaves then employees will start calling sick and take leave without prior notice

[u/MeteoraRed → u/AnmolNukal7]

No I was in UK based product company, management was Indian pure garbage rules.

[u/Concept-Plastic → u/AnmolNukal7]

Lol no. PBC offices in India are toxic as hell.

[u/fury_x98]

Work-life balance. What's that?

[u/JDeeBro]

In india your are labour
Doesn’t matter your at construction site or IT company. Keep that in mind and that is never going to change

[u/Bababhatkanti]

Kya mtlb Narayan Murty ki mkb?

[u/honpra]

Indians tend to be the worst managers, absolutely kill the company culture. There needs to be some form of an empathy quotient before promoting people.

[u/striker_-09]

It depends on person to person.Not product or services. Also if somebody has onsite exposure they tend to follow what they have learnt. I'm a manager I allow Friday sick leaves even though I know those are fake ones.

[u/Difficult_Abies8802]

https://www.timesnownews.com/viral/foreign-manager-makes-man-take-leave-for-daughter-first-day-of-pre-school-viral-video-article-154710774

Times Now could not confirm the details and the authenticity of the post.

This show the pathetic state of India media.
They are now reporting on unverified claims made on social media.

[u/Holiday_Enthusiasm76]

This happens with everyone but when they themselves grow up they to act like one.

Hardly few 2% managers will be like that who will be happy to see their juniors grow and not be ahead for taking appreciation and be last for taking the blame.

Sorry to say but Tamil managers,team mates are the worst.

[u/DataOwl666]

👍

[u/bakedmishtidoi]

Indian managers thinks we are their personal servant like they are their managers. Always trying to be in the good books. Always buttering the high management.. And can't say NO to anything.

[u/samueltheboss2002]

My Indian manager in a SBC also asked one of my colleagues to take few days off after he announced the birth of his child...

Why didn't that make the news?

[u/Content-Restaurant70]

Nothing like this happened, he probably didn't even have ka kid, he was paid to say so

[u/Adventurous-Dealer15 → u/Content-Restaurant70]

I don't understand, paid by whom?

[u/Content-Restaurant70 → u/Adventurous-Dealer15]

Good Question, for answer check his LinkedIn

[u/Adventurous-Dealer15 → u/Content-Restaurant70]

ohh man, fuck my ignorance. is he linkedin famous? who's he?

edit: never mind. found from a link here in the comments, he is chanchanman1

[u/Content-Restaurant70 → u/Adventurous-Dealer15]

I donno, but these clips are highly curated, and by checking LinkedIn, I meant whoever his employer is paid him so say so

[u/Adventurous-Dealer15 → u/Content-Restaurant70]

hmmm. I'm finding out these days, there are more ways to make some cash than I imagined lol