Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru

Bengaluru, Jul 28: A manager working for Café Coffee Day (CCD) in Bengaluru, committed suicide on Monday by hanging himself, and has blamed the Café’s management for his death in his suicide note.

Pramod (35), a native of Chikkamagaluru and was working at the Cafe Coffee Day situated at Pheonix Mall in Mahadevapura for the last 11 years. However, he took the extreme step of taking his life as he was unable to handle work pressure and was upset that the management was withholding the promotion promised to him.

Pramod in his suicide note said that he was transferred to Mangaluru and was promised a promotion. However, he was not promoted and called back to Bengaluru which caused him embarrassment.

He also blamed the sales pressure put on the employees and said that the management withheld salaries if targets were not met. He has requested the management to scrape ‘sales day’.

A police officer said that a case of abetment is registered based on the suicide note and investigation is under progress.

Meanwhile, a press release issued by Cafe Coffee Day stated, “In this moment of grief, we stand by his family and are extending our full support to them. We are offering full cooperation to the authorities”.


Here's what his suicide note said:

"Cafe Coffee Day is responsible for my death. I was working in Bangalore. But they said they would give me a promotion and sent me to Mangalore. I did go there, but they did not promote me. Instead, they asked me to return to Bangalore. I returned to Bangalore as they said. This hurt me a lot. Everyone here was asking me about the promotion, and it did not feel good. Also, there is too much of sales pressure in the Coffee Day. If we do not meet their target, they withheld our salaries. How can we arrange for lakhs of rupees? All are working for the sake of making their ends meet, for the daily bread. But with these conditions how do we even work? Chinnu and Muddu, please forgive me. I request Siddarth Sir to help my son for his studies and my wife for a living. Please ask them not to have "sales day". Dear father, mother, brother, sister-in-law, father-in-law and brother-in-law, please take good care of Muddu (daughter) and Arpita (wife). Give them so much love that they should not miss me at all.
Please donate my organs after my death.
Chinnu & Muddu I miss you both forever.
Your's lovingly PRAMOD"