I have my mid year appraisal coming up. I'm afraid that my manager might put me on PIP. I am trying my best to perform in my support role despite rotational shifts and health conditions, but I'm not able to meet my manager's expectations.

I am a 2025 BTech CSE grad working at a WITCH company. After so many years of education, I'm disappointed that I've gotten myself into being a corporate slave. I just wish I weren't born.

I can't live with this constant stress for the rest of my life, and die one day regretting the life I lived.

Are there any other career options for me? Is MBA dead? I had an idea of pursuing masters and then getting into research/ academia. Will it work out?

hello , i work in the insurance sector and it's been like one year in this company , so usually everything is okay , The company is a like any other indian company long working hours but the thing that is bugging me is the open discrimination between work from.home employees and work from office employees ,i work from.home and i do my assigned tasks on time ,no errors ,no escalations but when they have to show high achieving employees they always show who work from office and they deliberately to try show work from office employess not doing well by finding very small faults in our work whereas when work from office employee does any mistake they dont offically report it and get it corrected whereas when we make mistakes it is highlighted in the meetings or in emails and i have raised the issue with my manager that its happening but he doesnt take action as i have jo proofs ,although i can act chill and only think about my salary but then every month they put in lowest spot even after doing all my tasks and all. i wanted to switch as they have this groupism and perceived image of me which is made by people only in order to show themselve as high performer but switching is so hard in this economy ,other company wants to underapay you or there are only ghost jobs, no real jobs without a refral , so guys give me advice how can i be mentally calm.about it like should i just ignore it or try to switch

Background: Np-60days, left 20days.

Already working 10-6 here as they have a project going on. Haven't taken even a day off (1 casual, but that was before I knew it may extend the np or pay deduction), had mailed for a week off bcz of Dussehra and personal stuff but cancelled it.

Today, I logged of around 6.20, he called at 6.45pm and asked about errors, fine, then said when shall you be available, I said at 10 or 11pm (it's common here to work after office hrs).

Then he said that release is on Monday so we have to finalize everything by then and we'll pace up on weekends. I said I'm with my family and busy on weekends. He asked where I'm going, I just said I wanna spend some time. Pressured me to talk to manager which I refused as he was the one who asked me to be available. He cut the call !!

After that we(my family) did "sandhya aarti", but my mind was on his words and how he cut the call, ofc this has happened a few times in the past year.

I rang him up, and mentioned this in a strict way that he cannot speak like this and Cannot cut call. Especially when he has called and that too after office hours. He didn't apologise, instead he explained how it was my fault for 15min.

Since, I'm about to leave, and may need a day off in coming weeks, I just worry that my shitty manager might create issues.

TLDR: A senior called after office to assign work on weekends, I refused, he dropped the call. I rang back and complained this behaviour and I couldn't imagine what he might be cooking up with my shitty manager.

- And are passive aggressive about it.

I am a junior dev working in a startup for 1.5yrs now and ever since i joined I have felt this overwhelming emotions about me going invisible because I had a senior coworker of 4.5-5 yrs ex constantly finding gaps in time and work to overshadow or take over my work to basically get all the credits to themselves.

There were many instances where he started doing my tasks by subtly promoting himself to one of my ex-senior (15yrs exp) that some things need to be improved in the feature which was supposed to be given to me and eventually after I did all the ground work he takes it out into his own little branch and shows off as his own. Doesn't even let me know if I made any mistakes there and directly goes to gas about how careless I was even if it was the first commit of the feature to which i thought of adding improvements and finding bugs later.

This guy tried to trap me in a loop of mundane manual testing (no proper QA, we are everything here in this startup) and redirected even the smallest of development or optimization tasks that were supposed to be given to me to himself. And this I did around 3.5 months with no real development. I smartly used that time to automate tests for up to 45% (big project less time). My ex- senior appreciated me privately to another female coworker who is next in seniority to my ex-senior and I got to know about it through her.

Coming back to what happened last week. My current senior (female coworker) gave me ownership for abstracting our code base for a different model which had around 10-15 features and modules. I was happy and I implemented it in a separate repo for testing before integrating the same in our main repo. I was almost done but faced a few issues, since this is not a priority I was added to a higher priority project to finish development and I was doing excellent there. I solved a big issue we were facing and I started development there.

Now this coworker comes in the picture to just implement 1/15 feature for the model in abstracting. And I specially asked him to refer to the primary repo to do the feature. We faced some issues and we had to wait for our vendor to do the RCA. He already has other tasks. But no, he had to butt his way into what I was developing and testing and started making fixes there.

Mind you he emailed a week before this confirming our managers that features are done. He confirmed something which clearly he had less idea about, Not only this I saw his branch where he is separately working on MY task. I was so curious and i immediately called him (he wfh) to confirm and I told him these changes are not good as it clashes with the compatibility provided for a previous version of the same model. And he doesn't have access to any of it. So I told him to hold on to finishing his feature first and concentrate on another big Entire project he is handling separately.

The updates he gave our manager are also not true, he basically confirmed things he never tested or developed for the environments I was implementing and abstracting. The one feature is lowkey irrelevant to the other features I was adding. When I asked him why he is doing this when I'm already working on it he said this:

"I have created a branch for me and doing the required changes on that only. I have not changes any other branch.

You can create your branch seperately and do the required changes on that branch and make code stable.

Then we will merge branch both brnach with stable changes to one single brnach for this project.

Don't do any chamges on my branch"

"Whatever i have tested and was working are mentioned on that mail. If you are working any specific issue, you can mention that seperately on same mail chain."

What do I do with this guy? I already told my female coworker and she said politically he is doing something wrong. But technically he didn't merge anything and worked on his own. We can't question him.

Wth do I do???

TLDR; Senior trying to do the tasks which were assigned to me and keeping me with mundane repetitive secondary work and is actively trying to overshadow me multiple times. What do I do?

I’m currently in Bangalore and working as a software engineer from past three years and now I got two offers from Citco and Optum. So both of these from Hyderabad and now I wanted to choose one among these two, so I would like to add on here like a both are offering me CTC nearly there is less than 30 K difference in between those and also the benefits same in between these.

How to choose one in these…Needed quick help

So, i am in my last month of the 3 months long notice period and I have gotten 3 offers now. I work in a niche field and current employed via tech mahindra in Banglore and deployed at a client location.

YOE: 5 years
My current paycheck: 18L
Offer KPIT: 23L
Offer Arrow Electronics: 22L (But in hyderabad)
Offer Persistent: 23L

Now The last offer is what my client helped me get because they want me to continue working with them, thought I did ask for a permanent position but as always we don't get what we ask for. Now I am confused what should I do? Arrow electronics will put me Qualcomm ODC and KPIT will put me to work on panasonic.