India, Sept. 26 -- An Indian professional who recently joined a startup as an operations manager has shared a troubling account on Reddit about his first days at work. In a post titled "Joined a startup, now a junior is 'guiding' me (rudely) - what should I do?", he described how a fresher, recently promoted to team leader, was assigned to "guide" him despite being technically junior.

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The manager, who claims over six years of experience, explained: "After the usual 'act like a founder / think this is your company' pep talk, a fresher-who was recently promoted as a TL-came up to me and started telling me where to sit, what to do, etc. I was ...