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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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To: Bobbyvotes

Just what we need. More low IQ scammers.


21 posted on 10/05/2025 11:41:08 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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To: marcusmaximus

Were these ‘Indian’ employees of a ‘US based’ company working in the US or in India?


22 posted on 10/05/2025 11:41:25 AM PDT by posterchild
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To: Skywise
If it is on "FakeIt" 99.587% chance that it only happened in someone's delusional little head.
23 posted on 10/05/2025 11:44:04 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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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
--- "I'll take 'things that never happened for $1000' Alex!"

For those who actually read through the article, at the end one finds:

"Disclaimer: This story is based on a post shared by a Reddit User. The details, opinions, and statements quoted herein belong solely to the original poster and do not reflect the views of Financialexpress.com. We have not independently verified the claims."

Sources say, speaking on condition of anonymity, because I heard it from someone who heard it from someone who said he'd seen it on the internet.

For those who haven't read the article, read it.

And then, there's hard, verifiable data"

"Number of H-1B visa beneficiaries approved in fiscal 2025, by company"
Amazon -- 14,667
Tata Consultancy Services -- 5,586
Microsoft -- 5,1989
Meta Platforms -- 5,123
Apple -- 4,202
Google -- 4,186
Cognizant Technology Solutions -- 3,681
Deloitte Consulting -- 3,180
JPMorgan Chase -- 2,440
Walmart -- 2,390

"The worker visas that President Trump says now require $100,000 application fees fill a tiny portion of the U.S. workforce but include high-value jobs concentrated among some of the biggest technology companies in some of the wealthiest coastal states."

Source: Who Uses H-1B Visas the Most, in Charts Wall Street Journal, 22 September 2025

So, everybody, stop buying through Amazon and Walmart, stop buying Apple and Microsoft products, and please don't patronize Google ( which operates all those beloved YouTube videos which show up on FR threads ).

Just, stop it.

24 posted on 10/05/2025 11:44:23 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: marcusmaximus

I doubt that story. Reddit is the playground of deranged leftists.


25 posted on 10/05/2025 11:45:03 AM PDT by AppyPappy (They don't call you a Nazi because they think you are one. They do it to justify violence. )
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To: marcusmaximus

Good! Maybe for once when I call customer service I can get a person on the phone who speaks ENGLISH. Amazon is by far the worst when it comes to hiring foreign workers, whenever you need any sort of help either by chatting or phone call you get someone who does NOT speak one word of English


26 posted on 10/05/2025 11:45:38 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Big Red Badger
My Best jobs came after a Nasty ‘Adiós. Muchacho!’

Layoffs often force you to upgrade your life and your career which you wouldn't have staying comfortably in your comfort zone.

27 posted on 10/05/2025 11:47:03 AM PDT by libh8er
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time
Stop using Fakeboobs and stop giving your money to Chase.

You forgot that part.

28 posted on 10/05/2025 11:48:48 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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To: SharpRightTurn

“Bon voyage, Sanjay.”

What percentage I wonder will actually leave when their work visa’s expire? Assuming that they don’t find other employment? Overstaying visa’s is one of the most common ways to become an “illegal.”


29 posted on 10/05/2025 11:50:12 AM PDT by Tallguy
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To: marcusmaximus

Happened to mr mm when he was let go.

*The department has been restructured and your job position has been eliminated. Turn in your phone and computer and make an appointment to come in and clean out your desk. We’ll escort you to the door.*

Welcome to the real world folks. Happens all the time to American employees.


30 posted on 10/05/2025 11:50:43 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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To: Ben Dover

😆👏


31 posted on 10/05/2025 11:51:06 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: marcusmaximus

The media is sure pushing the sob stories


32 posted on 10/05/2025 11:51:39 AM PDT by falcon99 ( )
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To: marcusmaximus

Given that their was probably an American work force that had a similar fate. You now know how they felt. Of course its very likely not true that the “Indian workforce” was fired. Its more likely that the H1-B workforce was fired. And it just so happens they are all Indian. The idea that H1-B’s so happen to be 75% Indian is a complete scam. Someone in the US government is being paid off. There is a crime here. And it needs to end. But I would like the guy who is getting paid to go to jail as well. He is not an Indian. He is likely an American in the Federal government.


33 posted on 10/05/2025 11:52:17 AM PDT by poinq (thics and customs and did not take an oath to the country. And did not follow the country's traditio)
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To: marcusmaximus

booboo Hire American.
Part 2) Don’t give us that old excuse about no Americans can/will do the job.
Part 3) Pay a decent wage.
Part 4) Get rid of Union/Liberal run schools and unis and educate & train Americans.


34 posted on 10/05/2025 11:53:18 AM PDT by citizen (A transgender male competing against women may be male, but he's no man.)
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To: marcusmaximus

When Jack Welch ran GE, all employee performance was ranked each year. Employees who ranked in lowest 10% were fired every year.


35 posted on 10/05/2025 11:53:39 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Annnd....TRUMP IS RIGHT AGAIN.)
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To: marcusmaximus

I am completely exhausted by all the H1B stories from India. I don’t know why they don’t have an Indian Dream so they can make their move into their own upper classes. I think we should promote our own intellectual resources. I know that we aren’t doing much through our schools, but I did most of my education for myself. They handed me a Dick and Jane reader and got mad that I read the whole thing in a couple of minutes. It was supposed to last several months.

I went through 12 years of school without doing any homework. I didn’t have a clorox bottle to make a piggy bank because my older sister emptied it out for her project. I had to wear clothes that my older brother had grown out of but he was fat and I was skinny. Yet still I made a career in IT. We need to tell our kids that they can excel even without the school system. Not that they need to drop out but at least they can be successful at their own learning.


36 posted on 10/05/2025 11:55:06 AM PDT by webheart (Notice how I said all of that without any hyphens, and only complete words? )
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To: marcusmaximus
Disclaimer: This story is based on a post shared by a Reddit User. The details, opinions, and statements quoted herein belong solely to the original poster and do not reflect the views of Financialexpress.com. We have not independently verified the claims.

I'll say...

Nowhere do they even mention the name of the company that did the mass layoff.

-PJ

37 posted on 10/05/2025 11:55:18 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: marcusmaximus

I got replaced by an InfoSys org for most of my responsibilities. Company kept me employed w additional responsibilities then offered me a early retirement package about 18 months later.
It was a good retirement pkg and I was ready. I was 58yo at retirement date, I never looked back. 12 years later and 70yo I’ve got to say - No Regrets!!!


38 posted on 10/05/2025 11:56:24 AM PDT by fastrock
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
--- "Stop using Fakeboobs and stop giving your money to Chase. You forgot that part."

I did. Mea culpa.

39 posted on 10/05/2025 11:58:00 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: posterchild

My guess is that they were not working in the US, because there is some law about 60 day notices required for layoffs of a certain number of employees. Just my 2 cents.


40 posted on 10/05/2025 11:58:47 AM PDT by NEMDF
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