Posted on 10/05/2025 11:16:50 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Sudden layoffs from jobs are tough to process and it gets worse when questions of employees remain unanswered. In one such case, an Indian employee detailed his sudden layoff from a US-based company in a Reddit post which has gone viral. According to the post, the employee was caught off guard by the termination, which took place on October 1, over a three-minute video call.
“It was literally like any other day, woke up at 8:30, logged into work at 9 and saw a calendar invite for 11. It was a mandatory meeting with our COO for all India employees. I joined it at 11, he joined at 11:01, disabled everyone’s cameras and mics, casually let us know that they had “made the difficult decision of letting most of their Indian work force go”,’ the post read. The employee clarified that the layoffs were not performance-based but part of an internal organisational restructuring.
‘No time to prepare’
Sharing the emotional impact of the layoff, the Reddit post further stated that the three-minute video call left Indian employees “shocked, stunned, frustrated, stressed”. “No prior intimation, no time to prepare. They have offered October’s salary to paid at the end of the month and any leaves would be encashed. None of it even remotely makes up for what I’m feeling right now. This is the first time I’ve been laid off and it just truly…sucks,” read the post.
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Microsoft, Google, Amazon are applying for more H1-B workers.
Well, a lot of Americans know how it feels -- because we were laid off when the companies hired you guys.
Bring out the violins. My empathy meter is stuck on zero.
Not only that, but we had to train our replacements, which added insult to injury.
Learn to Call Center.
“because we were laid off when the companies hired you guys”
And they all laughed and said “suck it up buttercup, they like us better”
Payback
How many Americans has that happened to so the company could hire more cheap H1B Indians?
I surely did not. I changed my notice period to zero minutes and hit the trail.
It’s Real Life....
Keep That Resume’ handy!
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My Best jobs came after
a Nasty ‘Adiós. Muchacho!’
No sympathy. Saw this happening within the telecommunication industry as they let go the American worker after they trained their replacements from TATA.
that’s a shame, vishnoo willing
Press or say one for “Too Bad”
Press or say two for “So Sad”
I’m all tears.
Sanjay here doesn’t say whether he shed any tears or otherwise got emotionally worked up when he replaced an American worker by working for lower wages, putting the American in the unemployment line.
Bon voyage, Sanjay.
Yeah - this has all the whiff of a manufactured campaign.
Or, plot twist, the COO is Indian of the elite caste and is sacking all the indians of sub-caste...
I worked at Boeing for over twenty years.
It was common practice to layoff people
on a Friday at the end of the work day.
They didn’t want people screwing up airplanes
as a frustration at an upcoming layoff.
I was never laid off from Boeing, my brother was,
he spend a year or so in another profession
and was recalled to Being.
He is a thirty year retiree now.
Woke up at 8:30 and logged in at 9. Probably lsying atound in his underwear and periodically checking email all day while playing video games.
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