Sorry Miss! But you can’t work in the Incubation Centre at Night!
“Dear All
You are all aware that this incubator works 24 X 7. However, keeping in view, need for security and efficient working of the Incubator, following guidelines need to be followed.
1. Our office needs to be intimated in writing, if you or your employees stay back after 9 PM.
2. If you or your employees work out of your unit on Sundays and declared Holidays.
3. No lady member can stay back at the Incubator after 9 PM. No lady member will have access to the incubator after 7 PM
4. All Incubates and their staffs must sign-in at the security gate. Alternatively you can handover a list of your authorised personnel to our office.
5. The security has been so advised.
You are requested to co-operate with the security staff
Thanking you,
For Ekta Incubation Centre
Arindam Dutta
(Advisor & Member Secretary)”
We received this cease-and-desist note from the manager of EKTA TBI yesterday. Here is the context, since 24th of Jan, 2008, we (a new setup of which I’m one of the startup team) got a place as an Incubatee in the Ekta Incubation Centre - a DST Govt India sanctioned Technology Business Incubator run by the Ekta TBI Society under the aegis of West Bengal University of Technology
We have 7 hard-core tech employees, two of whom happen to be women and also very good at their jobs. Among other things that we do, we are also in the business of remote support and data-center maintenance. One of our major clients is a large and well-known European data-center company. We need to run a 24×7 operation, something that we had explained when we made our presentation to the Ekta TBI board members. We were accepted and allowed to start our operations under a Service Agreement which outlined the dos and donts. There was nothing about night shifts and women on the staff.
And then there was this!
February 13th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
WOW!!!
But One thing is missing…where is the dress code for girls?
February 13th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
I think i can assure you that it would be the next in line
April 23rd, 2008 at 10:09 am
…and then there is the “after shaadi business ka kya hoga?” (what will happen to this business when you get married and go away)
April 24th, 2008 at 1:59 am
@vid
well… not from the start-up side I assure you… and the Incubation center has no business with their marital status… btw, FWIW, the chaos died a quiet death after I shot back a 18-pointer notice about lack of legal mooring of the letter and a list of safeguards that are already in place.