Gaurav Sabnis vs IIPM

Blogger Gaurav Sabnis quit his job at IBM India.

It all started when he made a blog post linking to an expose of IIPM and IIPM folks in a display of the superior management skills they advertise, decided to burn some Thinkpad laptops to protest this.

The Senior Executive from Lenovo, I must stress here, did not ask me to remove my posts. He asked me whether my decision remained the same in light of this communication from IIPM. I said I would get back to him after talking over the matter with several people, including my Manager in IBM. I spoke to my Manager who also confirmed that IIPM had given IBM a deadline of Monday morning, i.e morning of today, 10th October, to ensure I deleted my posts. Failing which, they would burn the laptops.[An Update]

All of us work for some company or other, have opinions, and as citizens of a free country have the right to express them. If they are ofensive or incorrect there are polite ways to deal with it. But going after the blogger’s employer is really cheap and that’s what the folks related to IIPM have done.

The blogosphere is active with this news and desipundit is the focal point for this. We here at varnam.org salute Gaurav for standing up for his beliefs.

Update: Here is the wikipedia entry for IIPM

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