Just wanted to share my opinion

It’s written by a Satyam employee:

At a time when almost 90% of my Satyam friends are cribbing about the fraud and betrayal by Ramalinga Raju, I have a slightly different opinion. It's bold of me to write this in black and white but this comes straight from my heart and experience.

Let me start by quoting an example of 2006. Most of my friends were unemployed with 50-60% plus marks in BTech, with a degree from an average University and hunting madly for a job. Whether people accept it today or not but the truth remains that Satyam was the ONLY savior and the only mass recruiter who was ready to accept students who had back logs but had cleared them and also it did not put a very strict minimum marks criterion. And this was true not only for my small college at Lucknow but also those across India. Satyam is the fourth largest in IT in India. Looking at India's population I really want to thank Raju for giving some 54000 Indians jobs at least for all these years. He was the reason for the revival of confidence and the reason for the bread and butters for many families.

Satyam training was renowned all over India. Their STC training centre created numerous love stories and unexpected rekindling of a youthful environment where girls and boys were more independent than their college days. I remember most of my Satyam friends felt that they made better friends at Satyam's three to six months training than those in the four years of BTech.

Unfortunately people forget to thank God in sad times. I understand that what Raju did is deplorable and unpardonable. He should have treated business more formally and not dealt with it like a family affair. He should have been strict a couple of months or years before itself. Why did he hire so many non potential candidates and keep them on bench? When were the managers and the team mates last told that if they don’t work hard, they will lose their job? Business cannot be run lousily.

I have been staying with some 200 odd girls for the last 2 years and many of them are from Satyam. Moreover I network a lot and I have lots of male friends at Satyam. I have seen how people tail gate to Satyam, how they give their swipe cards to others to swipe it on their behalf , how female employees have gone home sharp at 6am irrespective of when they landed at office, how employees sit at home for months at a stretch, prepare for all kind of post graduate entrance exams and still enjoy a full month's pay, how often they went for movies at local theatres at office hours, how often employees went to office just to sign on registers in the morning and at evening, how often they faked their certificates , how often they put unlimited fake medical and house rental bills.

How can we blame just one man when EACH AND EVERY person was disloyal ? How can we exclude Auditors like PwC ? How can we exclude the Board of Directors who has washed their hands off so clean? How can we exclude banks who gave hefty loans without true verification? How can we exclude the Chief Minister of AP who allowed leniency for Raju's fellow businessman? How can we exclude managers who were never able to trace which bench employee under him had been away from office for how long ?
Yet how can people forget this is the same man whose ideas and potentials gave them an identity for the past several years? How many couples found the right match at an IT industry , courtesy Satyam and how many Andhra farmers benefited from their crores of investments in Satyam shares .How can people forget that Satyam launched its offices right at the doorsteps of a residential colony, where people can simply walk to work ?

The most gruesome experience that I can recollect was when a Satyam tag wearing person was waiting to attend an interview and I overheard him saying that he was in a business meeting at the My Home Satyam ( Madhapur) office when he was sitting right in front of me at a totally different company. When employees themselves show such a lousy attitude and don’t care a damn for the brand that they carry around their neck, how can they expect others to care?

I am not saying that ALL Satyam employees are bad. I have known very dedicated people too, but my point is very clear, before pointing fingers at others, introspect .There are thousands of people who have completed certifications at the cost of Satyam, got trained at Satyam. Satyam made several freshers stand on their feet to get better jobs elsewhere across the globe and attain onsite exposure through Satyam.

What Raju did was to keep the business of Satyam going at any cost. I see a very smart man in him when he understood that he should rather accept his mistake than be caught by the USA laws . I see a selfish father in him too that he put a lot at stake for Maytas. However, he resigned with a lot of dignity and his letter of resignation shows humility. It takes a mammoth amount of courage to accept your mistake in public at a time when the media is ready to blow everything out of proportion. If humans don’t make mistakes who else would ?

My last salute to this man is for creating such mass employment in India for 57k employees and 57k families when even opening a beetle(pan) shop in a lane in India is a challenge !! Thanks to him for creating income for all the thousands of families who benefited through food chains, the Tiffin wallahs, the transport people and all those who made money by renting their houses.

I read he donated Rs 12000 crores from his personal pocket to give the January salary of his Satyam employees. Today Satyamites call Raju a FRAUD. The true and loyal Satyamites surely have all the reasons to say this word. But all the rest who sucked every rupee out of Satyam without doing any value addition need to understand - who was a bigger fraud.

-Komal Rastogi

I got the above information as a forward. I could not control my emotions and anger. I am really fed up because of the justification this person has given and wanted to share few things. I started discussing what was said in actual phase of mind. Whoever wrote this mail should be ashamed to write like this. Whoever it is what she wants to prove??? Isn’t it giving a justification for whatever Mr.Ramalinla Raju had done? My point is every criminal will have a valid reason for his crime so can we leave them just because they have a valid reason for crime?? The Person whoever wrote this letter is who is proud to be a true Indian and a true Engineer. I wanted to ask what do these things in the mail mean.

Look at the second paragraph it says,

“Let me start by quoting an example of 2006. Most of my friends were unemployed with 50-60% plus marks in BTech, with a degree from an average University and hunting madly for a job. Whether people accept it today or not but the truth remains that Satyam was the ONLY savior and the only mass recruiter who was ready to accept students who had back logs but had cleared them and also it did not put a very strict minimum marks criterion”

So recruiting ill qualified people, who are not fit to work in international standards and spoiling the whole standard system was the biggest help that SATYAM did to INDIA. That’s what SATYAM is contributed to then. Let me speak of this in detail, if they took people who had backlogs and cleared it later. The people who didn’t had eligibility criteria even to appear for other company interviews were taken by SATYAM. Now that’s why there are so many Engineering Colleges that grown in short time in India and there is no respect to Engineers. In IndiaJapan, but India is 50 years behind Japanese technology. When there are companies like SATYAM, who encourage the ill qualified India will never be a developed country. there are 5 times more engineers who graduate every year when compared to

The third Paragraph says,

“ I remember most of my Satyam friends felt that they made better friends at Satyam's three to six months training than those in the four years of BTech.”

What is the point making friend means it is a good company eh? Even people who are terrorists make better friends during there training in Pakistan than the whole time they spent before they went for training. So you should say whatever they have said is true eh??? What has it got to do?? I can understand that if someone says they gained more knowledge or contributed more to the society? Making friends is something great which never happens elsewhere is it??

The fourth paragraph is ultimate it says,

“I have seen how people tail gate to Satyam, how they give their swipe cards to others to swipe it on their behalf, how female employees have gone home sharp at 6am irrespective of when they landed at office, how employees sit at home for months at a stretch, prepare for all kind of post graduate entrance exams and still enjoy a full month's pay, how often they went for movies at local theatres at office hours, how often employees went to office just to sign on registers in the morning and at evening, how often they faked their certificates, how often they put unlimited fake medical and house rental bills.”

So they not only spoiled the education system but also the personal ethics. Look how great company it was people at theatres during office hours, other people will swipe for you and paid salary for people who were at home. People came to office, just for signing registers. Great isn’t it? Whoever wrote it if that person knows this much the management should have known it isn’t it? Then why did they kept their mouth shut and kicked those people out and warned other peoples? So they had no ethics from the beginning that’s all I understand from these statements.

The ninth paragraph says,

“I see a very smart man in him when he understood that he should rather accept his mistake than be caught by the USA laws . I see a selfish father in him too that he put a lot at stake for Maytas. However, he resigned with a lot of dignity and his letter of resignation shows humility. It takes a mammoth amount of courage to accept your mistake in public at a time when the media is ready to blow everything out of proportion. If humans don’t make mistakes who else would ?”

Cheating employees make a person wise is it?? What he resigned with dignity eh ?! His letter of resignation shows humility uh?! What the heck this person wants to convey. Raju knew well about the Indian Judiciary system and he knew well that this case will take some twenty years for sure. There is no harm really to him then only he accepted it. It takes a mammoth amount of courage to accept your mistake in public this is utter scam. If he admitted that he did faking the sheets when he did that first then that’s what is called courage. He had no escape and he rode on his lie for years and was got red handed when he was trying to buy MAYTAS without any money. This is not courage this is utter fraudulent, who else you call him a mahatma is it??

The tenth paragraph says,

“My last salute to this man is for creating such mass employment in India for 57k employees.”

Even selling dope and prostitution creates employment to people, so doing things illegally which create job opportunities should be given respect eh?? Then salute politicians who create job opportunities to more than 57K families my having GUNDAS.

The last paragraph is ultimate it says,

“I read he donated Rs 12000 crores from his personal pocket to give the January salary of his Satyam employees.”

What the F___ ??? Did Raju gave his hard earned money or gave money by selling his family property?? It was all hard earned money for those SATYAM employees which these crocodiles have never shared it to the hard working people and had took for their own use.

This is why India has been suffering because of people thinking like this, when corporate like TATA and INFOSYS can have ethics in everything and can work for years without changing the morals. Few mushrooms who grown recently for sake of money doing things and publicly declared as the greatest people working for India’s development. At least Indians should think about this in the right way. There will be people who will make it like this and that’s why our country is a developing country for more than sixty years when countries which bought independence after us became developed countries.

For all those who read this let me make one thing clear. THIS IS MY BLOG. THIS IS MY OPINION and I WILL PUT IT MY WAY. IF YOU FEEL OFFENDED AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT. I HAVE MENTIONED IT CLEARLY AS MY OPINION IN THE TOPIC SO PLEASE DON'T TRY TO HELP ME BECAME GOOD. I KNOW WHAT I AM!!!