Girl slams HCL on receiving appointment letter a full 3 years after being recruited

After a Mumbai-based export company denied a job to a Muslim youth because of his religion , another reputed company is at the forefront of a similar injustice. On Thursday, a person called Siddhant Mehta put up a screenshot on Facebook in which a girl enlisted reasons for refusing a job at one of India’s leading firms, Hindustan Computers Limited (HCL) with the caption ‘Oh Yes! This girl rejecting HCL offer like a boss’ [caption id=“attachment_2260168” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Screenshot of the post on Facebook.[/caption] Why would she do that, you ask? HCL sent Shivani her appointment letter three long years after she was recruited through campus placements. If that wasn’t bad enough, they even asked her to respond within three days. A furious Shivani not only declined the offer but also lashed out at the company when they asked us to enlist her reasons for not wanting to join HCL. Shivani had been recruited along with 40 other people in September 2011 but had not heard from the company ever since. Because she had already secured  a job, she was also not allowed to sit for the recruitment process of any other company. Shivani added that she had forgotten that she had secured a job at HCL as they had not bothered to send her the appointment letter in three years. “Moreover, you are asking me to accept the offer in 3 days while you took almost 3 years to send out your joining date?” she wrote. She also told off the company by saying that it is obvious that HCL is rolling out the appointment letters right now due to the company’s market condition and as soon as the market condition gets worse, a lot of people will be pushed out. Shivani was also appalled at the fact that HCL did not even apologise for the treatment that was meted out to candidates like her. Since the post was uploaded, it has received more than 5,000 likes, 106 comments and more than 200 shares on Facebook. On March 2013, several recruits who were left in the lurch by HCL technologies had protested outside their corporate office in Bengaluru. These were a part of the second nationwide protests where over 5,000 engineering students who were promised jobs during recruitment season in 2011 were demanding their jobs. At the time, HCL had already delayed the joining dates five times, reports The Hindu. Read the full post here.