[Resolved]  IBM Daksh — Complaint against Manoj Verma

I have been working with IBM Daksh since February 2006. In April 2008 I moved into the Coporate IT (ID Co-ordinator team). This gave me a good opportunity to work within IT and I saw it as my first step towards my long and promising career with IBM.

I was also very happy to have a good managers(Vikram Raina ) who encouraged me to take responsibilty and continuously supported me to enhance my skills. I, as a part of the ID co-ordinator team, have also been awarded for the contribution in the last Corporate awards event in August 2008.

Everything was going fine till my second level manager(Vikram Raina) was replaced with a newly hired DGM, Manoj Verma, in early September 2008. Ever since Mr. verma took over, he has been quite unprofessional in dealing with all his staff including myself. At times he has been even abusive on the phone with me. He even threatened to fire me. Initially I was trying to make sense of why suddenly everything has changed although I have been working as efficiently as before. But gradually I came to know from my co-workers that they are quite upset with Mr. Verma's behaviour as well. I am quite distressed with the kind of treatment I have to put up with. After he used abusive language on the phone a few times, I (out of distress) recorded one of our conversations. I can produce this recording as a proof, if required.

Manoj Verma has a very unprofessional way of dealing with his subordinates. He often uses foul language and never gives you a chance to clarify your stand. His threats of getting people fired is creating a fear psychosis within the team. It took me a lot of thinking to write to you because most of my co-workers are scared of reporting such things.

Mr. Verma is a new hire and his attitude has encouraged bad behaviour from another manager, Kapil Wadhwa and Sanjay Kumar Sharma. Kapil has also lately been quite harsh and unprofessional with the staff. Together both Kapil and Manoj Verma have managed to drive out some of the experienced staff from the team. I and my two co-workers have already resigned and couple of more people are very upset and might follow suit.

I spoke with the other teams as well and many of them are of the same opinion about Manoj Verma.
The environment that we are forced to work in is telling upon mine and other team members productivity as well as the mental health. Everybody here is distressed and worried about our careers.

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I have complaint againt Manoj Verma many times to HR and Higher managment, but instead of helping me, they forced me to leave the Organisation. My Manager Sanjay Kumar Sharma also helped them, by always writing me surcastic mails and by rating me low. I asked HR to take the feedback from other stake holders, which I have worked with, but they forced me to accept this rating. I was not ready to leave the organization, but I would say I have been forced to leave the organization in this is a recession period.

I would request you to take this up as topmost priority as people are suffering here both professionally and mentally. You could gather an anonymous feedback about Manoj Verma as well if that would convince you of seriousness of the issue.

Please mail me I will give my full details.