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US firm sacks close to all Indian employees at one go, ‘decision made in a 3 minute video call’
Financial Express ^ | News Desk

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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Too bad.
1 posted on 10/05/2025 11:16:50 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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Microsoft, Google, Amazon are applying for more H1-B workers.


2 posted on 10/05/2025 11:19:31 AM PDT by Bobbyvotes (Work is worship! .... Bhagavad Geeta. )
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3 posted on 10/05/2025 11:20:31 AM PDT by struggle
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"This is the first time I’ve been laid off and it just truly…sucks,”

Well, a lot of Americans know how it feels -- because we were laid off when the companies hired you guys.

4 posted on 10/05/2025 11:20:48 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Democrats seek power through cheating and assassination. They are sociopaths. They just want power.)
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Bring out the violins. My empathy meter is stuck on zero.


5 posted on 10/05/2025 11:21:13 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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Not only that, but we had to train our replacements, which added insult to injury.


6 posted on 10/05/2025 11:23:26 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: marcusmaximus

Learn to Call Center.


7 posted on 10/05/2025 11:23:58 AM PDT by shelterguy
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“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


8 posted on 10/05/2025 11:24:04 AM PDT by Regulator (It's fraud, Jim)
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How many Americans has that happened to so the company could hire more cheap H1B Indians?


9 posted on 10/05/2025 11:24:20 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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Not only that, but we had to train our replacements

I surely did not. I changed my notice period to zero minutes and hit the trail.

10 posted on 10/05/2025 11:27:06 AM PDT by GingisK
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I'll take "things that never happened for $1000" Alex!
11 posted on 10/05/2025 11:27:22 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (It's like somebody just put the Constitution up on a wall …. and shot the First Amendment -Mike Rowe)
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It’s Real Life....
Keep That Resume’ handy!

.
My Best jobs came after
a Nasty ‘Adiós. Muchacho!’


12 posted on 10/05/2025 11:27:38 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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No sympathy. Saw this happening within the telecommunication industry as they let go the American worker after they trained their replacements from TATA.


13 posted on 10/05/2025 11:28:46 AM PDT by grcuster
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14 posted on 10/05/2025 11:29:49 AM PDT by Drew68
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that’s a shame, vishnoo willing


15 posted on 10/05/2025 11:31:29 AM PDT by MarlonRando
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To: marcusmaximus

Press or say one for “Too Bad”
Press or say two for “So Sad”


16 posted on 10/05/2025 11:33:52 AM PDT by Ben Dover (Terrorism is a cancer that can only be cured with massive doses of radiation.)
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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.


17 posted on 10/05/2025 11:34:38 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O'Rourke)
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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...


18 posted on 10/05/2025 11:37:24 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: marcusmaximus

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.


19 posted on 10/05/2025 11:38:31 AM PDT by rellic (No such thing as a moderate Moslem or Democrat )
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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.


20 posted on 10/05/2025 11:38:55 AM PDT by shotgun
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