important HR meeting

Came back from a really important HR meeting (well, as important as a HR meeting can ever get 😉 ) – maybe its too bad I never heard a thing.

There was this guy talking about some new job levels and so on with a power point presentation to around 100 peole in the cafeteria in the basement.

He wasnt really one endowed with outstanding presentation skills, and managed to lose the audience’s interest in a mere 10 minutes. Everyone started murmuring among themselves making him even more inaudible than before. At first I tried really hard to see what he was trying to say, but there was a pair of people talking animatedly right next to me.

So finally I asked them “can you hear anything?”

One of them replied “no, there’s just too much of noise”

What an irony… but in just a few minutes I found my own patience had worn out so I was tempted to join them. There was a slide showing job levels like say L1, L2…. L9. One of the pair next to me, who incidentally had been a fresher whom I myself had interviewed a year ago, asked “oh we had levels upto L9 is it, I thought L6 was the maximum”

So I couldnt resist replying – “oh its because L9 is so far away that nobody ever gets to even see it”

And there was the other guy, a more experienced chap who also commented that the L series was an old one, and now its replaced by a (say) M series starting from M9 to M19. So think about M19 then!

I had to add “For M19, you would have to make sure your progeny work for the same company and only they would ultimately reach this level”!

My cynicism for desktop jobs seems to be at an alltime high nowadays, not sure if I’m an odd man out or this is a common thing with everybody else. Sometimes I wonder if its some kind of impertinence instead of gratitude for having a (relatively) secure job, considering that countless others are desperate for employment.