Poll Analysis | Bribes for Jobs and Job Promotions
How about shelling some extra cash for the post you desired? Ridiculous though this sounds, it has sadly been the reality in the case of many of our respondents. On I Paid a Bribe we have observed that for every report of a bribe paid for a job promotion, there are as many reports about bribes paid for securing jobs! We conducted a poll and here are the results.
Interesting results from the Poll! About 21% of our respondents said they might consider the possibility of paying a bribe for a job promotion. 71% firmly said they wouldn't pay a bribe and 8% confessed that they would pay a bribe.
A respondent from Muzaffarpur, Bihar who works as a branch manager in a public sector bank posted his story about paying a bribe to get promoted. The respondent was asked to increase the deposit amount from his own pocket to increase the deposits through development funds. Voila! He gets promoted the coming year.
You can also read about it here: http://www.ipaidabribe.com/bribe-central/bank-managers-story-promotion
But there are few who do not wish to sell integrity over promotion. A respondent from Chennai reported that he served the public sector without giving in to bribery for twenty years. He has seen many employees under him who are now far above him. Read it here: http://www.ipaidabribe.com/bribe-central/public-sector-fiasco
Interestingly it's not just job promotions that require that bribes be paid but even securing a job seems like an impossibility if money doesn't exchange hands.
A reporter from Bhubaneshwar writes in to tell us that after clearing the screening, group discussion and personal interview the HR official of the company asked for a bribe of Rs 1 Lakh and refusal to pay this bribe led to him not having a job!
A PSU employee from Warangal confessed to paying a bribe of Rs 2000 to the officer who visited his house for verification of details as he was afraid he'd lose the job if he didn't.
There's also an interesting report about a bribe giver from Vishakapatnam who received most of his money back after the government education officer minister didn't keep his promise of securing him a job. Our reporter says he is Rs 7500 and a job poorer!
This begs the question: Where does the line that separates the unethical from the immoral stand? While most of us do not want to soil ourselves in such a deep muddle, many are left walking the other line.
- Manisha Yadav