“In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.” said Robert Byrne. This may be one of the reasons you lied and cheated your employees, your shareholders and your company as a whole. Why Raju why?? This would be the question many would be asking and that too for a long time.
When you decided to cheat for the first time did it ever cross your mind that it will not only affect you but a chain of people starting from your high profile colleagues to the common software engineer? You may be a genius at manipulating but not at all a visionary. Othewise you would have envisioned the plight of your company and your people when you decided to cook up your balance sheets.
Today your company makes headlines albeit for the wrong reasons. The western media has got a tool to target the Indian IT companies. The anti outsourcing lobby is gaining strength by the day and this has come as a blot to the many honest and sincere Indian software engineers working all over the world.
One of your biggest clients, State Farm, has decided to terminate its contract with Satyam. This will affect around 1000 employees of yours. These employees are upset and understandably so. Their future is uncertain. They have been asked to leave client site at the earliest. Heavy financial losses stare at their face because they need to sell their cars, furnitures and stuff at the earliest. What will your offshore resources in this project do? Where will they go? Can they be assured that there wont be any layoffs because of this? What wrong did they do to suffer like this? Was that their fault that they decided to join Satyam? Not sure if these questions ever surface in your mind but a common man would definitely lose his sleep over this.
I am sure you have created a name for yourselves by indulging in the biggest corporate scam in Indian history and if we go by the records, you will be out of jail soon. You can always go back to your normal life without much struggle since people will forget this incident once the dust settles in a few months. What happens to the employees those who lost their jobs and in some cases those who lost their lives? Many dreams are shattered. Who will mend them? The timing of your confession is one of the worst. Already the economic gloom is taking the sheen out of the sparkling Indian IT bandwagon and this fiasco is adding fuel to the fire. Lets hope that things return to normal in the days to come. Lets hope that your new board takes some good decisions to reassure clients and employees about the strength of the company. Lets hope your company gains the ground that it has lost. Until that time people will be asking you “Why Raju why???”
