My father has been running a mechanical manufacturing business in Noida for 35 years.
When he started, he had just one employee, Dinesh uncle.
Papa taught him every machine, every process, every skill he knew.
35 years later, Dinesh uncle retired.
And my father still very close friend with him.
I grew up inside that factory.
3 shifts. Machines running 24 hours.
And one thing my father always told me:
“Never stand above your workers. Work with them.”
Till today, every single day, my father himself sits on the press machine or cutter machine and works alongside the employees. He is almost 60 years old and still works on the machine line every day. He has never been the type of owner who sits in AC cabins shouting at people. He treats employees like family.
During my brother’s marriage, every employee was invited like family.
Every major function in our house, weddings, celebrations, difficult times, employees have always been included. That culture has existed in our factory for decades.
During COVID, there were days when only me, my brother, my father and one engineer were operating the entire factory just to complete orders on time.
And about salaries, my father has always paid above standard wages because he believes skilled workers deserve respect.
So when I see people on X blaming every business owner or every “sethji” for the current worker shortage, I feel the reality is more complicated than that.
This morning I asked my father why factories in Noida are facing such massive shortages of workers, machine operators, maids, CNC/VMC engineers, etc.
He said a big reason is that the market changed completely in the last few years. Govt schemes, rising living costs, migration shifts, new low skill job opportunities, delivery apps, election period instability, sudden gas cylinder price hikes, everything together changed the workforce structure.
Heavy machinery work takes years of training and discipline. Younger people today often prefer easier or faster paying jobs instead of spending years learning industrial skills.
A lot of factories around us are struggling badly with the current worker shortage and many companies have dropped close to 50% workforce.
We somehow still managed to retain around 85% of our employees because my father spent decades building loyalty and relationships with people instead of just treating them like labour.
Yes, bad owners exist. Absolutely.
But every founder, factory owner, or businessman is not the villain people on social media make them out to be.
Some people genuinely spend their entire lives building businesses while standing on the factory floor with their workers every single day.
Zero@babbarshera
@Nikhil07x @kushgrwl @vinodchendhil I will tell you why.....the owner, the sethji and family of the business treat employees like their subjects, they finance their entire lavish life on company expenses and then draw salary, tell employees there's no money coming in.. Daily deliberate cribbing screws people up.
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