u/Devilsline

I just need to vent because I am absolutely furious and heartbroken for my dad. For over 30 years, he worked at a major manufacturing plant in Goa. He was literally there when the foundation stone was laid. He is an engineer by trade and worked his way up from the plant floor to an executive position. He chose never to switch companies because he wanted to stay close to our hometown to look after my grandparents. Under leadership, the plant maintained healthly growth, maintained a top-notch reputation with vendors, and kept the highest level of legal and statutory compliance. Then, two years ago, a massive Indian conglomerate bought the company. The new owner (the group's Vice Chairman) started micro-managing daily operations, and everything went to hell.

Because my dad understands the actual technical grit it takes to run a complex, 24/7 continuous process plant, watching this owner ruin it was painful. Honestly i didnot expect a vice chairmen of grouo having almost 1 billion dollar in revenue would be like this.Here is a glimpse of what this guy did:

Abuse and Fraud :He harassed the original Head of Supply Chain so badly he threatened him physically, then fired him. He replaced the entire accounts and supply chain department with his own people to start pulling financial frauds.

Massive GST & Compliance Scams:He ignored the complex engineering of the plant and focused blindly on a 5x capacity expansion. He used low-quality work, bypassed environmental and fire department clearances, and pulled a massive GST fraud—luring small contractors with big promises, not paying GST on their bills, but claiming ₹150+ crores($20 million) in input tax credit.

*Starving the Plant:*This owner sits on purchase requests (PRs) for months. A heavy industrial plant was running out of basic utilities like welding rods just to do standard maintenance and repairs. My dad’s team was constantly emailing PRs and meeting in person just to beg for basic consumables so they could actually keep the plant running safely, but they were completely ignored.

Zero Operational Understanding: Because he didn't pay the contract workers for two months, they walked out. Production tanked. To fix his own mess, he ordered my dad to fire 200 people right after the walkout, even though the automation lines weren't even finished. His brilliant solution? “Make the engineers do the packing and manual moving stuff.” Imagine telling an engineering team and an executive who came up through I&E to just use his technical staff as manual laborers. And the worst part? The Goa State Government is completely in cahoots with him. The local MLA and the Chief Minister know exactly what is happening at this plant. They know about the lack of permissions, the environmental hazards, the unpaid workers, and the fraud. But they are completely blind to it, just sitting back and waiting while pocketing whatever benefits they are getting. There is zero political will to protect local Goan workers or enforce safety laws when a massive group is involved. For the 6 months, my dad was coming home at 8-9 PM every single night. All the project managers and engineers resigned after seeing the mess, leaving my dad to handle the project commissioning completely alone. No bonuses, no increments for the staff for two years, while the owner only rewarded his selected "yes-men." The breaking point for my dad: The final straw came during a confrontation with the owner. The owner, in all his arrogance, tried to tell my dad that because he has bought many plants like this before, he knows exactly how things work. My dad, who literally started on the plant floor, looked at him and replied: "I have been in this industry for 30 years, and I am still learning."

That exchange said it all. My dad realized that if he couldn't even get this man to respect the engineering process, and couldn't provide his own team with the basic utilities and tools they needed to do their jobs safely, there was no point in him holding an executive position anymore. He refused to just sit in a high-ranking chair, collect a paycheck, and watch his people get starved of resources while a clueless owner blamed them for the output.

Fed up with the complete lack of operational freedom, the absolute political rot, and the physical safety risks of running a starved plant, my dad finally resigned. The CEO tried to convince him to stay, but my dad's integrity was worth more than a compromised title.He Also, refused to release my dads royalty bonus. We’ve lived here for 35+ years. My dad is getting job offers because of his deep expertise, but they are all in places like away from here.Moving away from his hometown when he is so close to retirement was never the plan, and it sucks that he was forced into this position by a reckless owner and a corrupt state government. I am just so incredibly angry at this arrogant owner who came in with deep pockets, destroyed a 30-year legacy of hard work, treated brilliant engineers like disposable garbage, and ruined my dad's peaceful transition into retirement.I honestly hope that greedy bastard rots in hell.

Thanks for reading. I just needed to get this off my chest.