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Diwali, also known as Deepawali, the Hindu festival celebrated in the lunisolar months of Ashvin and Kartika, is approaching. The five-day festival is synonymous with lights and parties, with corporate offices conducting Diwali events for employees. Now, a Reddit post showing a message in an office group where management asked its employees to contribute money for a party is going viral.
The WhatsApp message reads that 100 per cent attendance is necessary for bosses and their teams on the Diwali party day. It further mentions that managers need to collect Rs 1,200 from their team members, and the leads shall contribute Rs 2,000. “Imagine asking money from your employees to give a boring party and the venue is bad too,” the caption read.
See the viral post here:
This is embarrassing for a company
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The post amassed over a thousand upvotes and ignited a flurry of reactions slamming the management. “What if some employees don’t want to attend the party and would be absent or at hometown and what about non alcoholic employees?” a user wrote. “In my previous company, my manager used to play Foosball with me and my colleagues and then would go for a meeting and come back to see us playing still and join us again,” another user commented.
“Good companies will always sponsor travel, food and venue but never booze. It’s always BYOB for booze in good companies. And unprofessional ones do the opposite. Why ? Because they’re treating the booze as a bribe,” a third user reacted. “This is becoming a norm nowadays. If it is an official event, the company should be paying, not force employees to spend on it. If you say you can’t attend due to personal reasons, they’d shamelessly ask you to contribute even if you aren’t going, as it is a team event,” a fourth user said.
According to the ancient Hindu calendar, the main day of Diwali is celebrated on Amavasya, the fifteenth day of Kartik, on the darkest night of the year, called Kartik Amavasya, with the festival falling on October 21 this year.
