07-13-2010, 08:33 PM
Dard
Buddy you are perhaps unaware of the things you are talking about; so wait, let the time come, go through the phases and then make out your opinions.
No one is exploiting any one and the people always TAKE OUT MORE THAN WHAT THEY PUT IN during this phase of life. This is my confirmed opinion, a positive snap, and a feeling that is based upon not only my experience of life but also on the exposure of my family members who are also CAs, family friends, professional friends and others.
At the same time if we look at other picture, we can see that everyone is exploiting the other and everyone is concerned for ONLY his benefit. When it comes to me, I call it "objective", "question of career", "my future" etc but if similar thing is on some other's shoulders, I tend to call it "lack of ethics", "exploitation" etc. So, this is "me" who is judge. One is said to be a best judge for his own-self but typically the fairness and logic vanishes in most of the cases when one is his own judge. Mind it; whenever this is "me" who is judge, and the fairness is dropped out, things will look in the way I wish to look them. When this is "me" who has to judge in such a way then everything appears as per image I create or my circumstances create in my mind. I believe I need not to go in further details and you will understand it without doing so.
You know, we see the INNOCENT students daily who are always so deep, unpredictable and extremely vibrant for their benefit ONLY that they lay off every single practice of ethics and moral values which they preach for the firms. Just one example; many times a student pressurizes the firm with 10s of references for an entry and/or he is entertained for the sake of his desperation to find out place in ANY firm; he is interviewed, inducted and trained (believe you me at many occasions just to save his future). As soon as he finds a place in EVEN a bit better firm, he jumps out forgetting how out of the way he was entertained by the firm when he was frustrated. The firms can stop them doing so, simply by giving a phone call to other members in practice; but you will not see a single case where this has been done by the firms. There are so many examples which can be quoted regarding the so-called ethics of students as well. Firms find such instances in routine and at most of times simply ignore them because it's the matter of a student who has to undergo many phases.
So, as I said, if it is "me" who has to be the judge (with a prejudiced mind) then justice is also the one that is visible to "me" only and same would be the saga of ethics, moral values, exploitation, and what not and what not.
I normally don't tend to go in details of this issue because I believe a variety of behaviors, cultures and practices have to continue for all the times. We all are humans, the people who can differ due to personality differences, past personalized experiences and mindsets developed over the times pursuant to the culture, society and experience we are subject to on individual basis in different phases of life.
Ultimately, whatever someone is doing is aimed at to achieve one's targets (again personal objective and benefit) so, a student should focus on his target and take the positioning to develop his career in a best possible manner keeping in view all those ethics which he loves to preach for others. Self assessment and clarity of the objective is extremely important. One should make efforts to remain honest, sincere, focused, robust and ethical to a maximum extent he can do.
If one feels that hardworking, pressure facing, making extraordinary efforts etc is unethical at the part of firms then he should better leave the profession since this profession is known for it. Crying for stipends, 60 or 70 thousand salary is nothing but a way to find refuge from the personal misconceived future career. One does not know few months back what he will be getting after being a CA and this has unfolded at once, when he decided to leave the profession. I at the outset said that the people who raise these questions are devoid of logic, objectivity and the essence of achieving their targets.
We understand that grapes of a highly demanding career (that requires extra ordinary efforts) are usually sour for all those who don't have height to capture the branches carrying such fruit of future elevation. We usually donât measure ourselves and try to adjust where we cannot. You can see a student around you who always took 3rd division (lowest marks) throughout his career and in his imagination always sees himself to be a doctor or engineer or chartered accountant etc. Most of such people imprudently join the fields that do not suit to their abilities and ultimately leave it abusing the environment and circumstances and declaring such situation as the cause of their failure. They will design a hundred thousand reasons to beat about the bush but will never THROUGHOUT their career make any unified effort to achieve something. I place on record that this observation is very much generalized and is not focused on any member or poster of this forum at all.
I said earlier that first of all the career must be selected with a thoughtful mind and based upon assessment of oneâs own capabilities, practices and economic situation. Secondly, for CA training, one should be very careful for selecting a firm and should find out the required details and watch carefully if he can survive in the culture firm is offering. At the end, if in any case a firm is not up to the mark and one finds some severe reservations (however correct or incorrect these reservations may be) the student can get an NOC and find out a new firm with better prospects. However, I personally believe that it is a student who has to mold himself as per environment ultimately. So, it is better if such adoption is practiced at the outset.
This is the matter of one's interior how he wishes to comment on it. By the way you will not see any firm abusing the students on internet forums. Just a food for thought to analyze the ethics being preached.
I hope the people who wish to concentrate on what they want to do can get a few beneficial messages after reading the above sentences. Otherwise no one is ever bothered to even give an ear to the grouses people raise without a logic or defendable reason.
Regards,