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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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So does that mean we’ll have English speaking individuals on the call desks that are actually understandable? Never mind having someone who is clearly Indian, giving their name as James or Gary. I actually called them out once after being passed over to the third person.
Thousands of emotionally-stunted teenagers write and post fiction on Reddit daily. This is one example.
Call center jobs are ghetto. H-1b visas are for white collar STEM workers. Our best jobs.
Really? Post it then.
That is no joke. I worked 37 years in main street industry in Chicago. My job was running computer controlled manufacturing machines. I interviewed lot of people over the years to hire in my department. It seldom found a competent worker from India. I would have been happy to hire them since I was born and raised in India. The best people I found were from eastern Europe.
Because India has a huge surplus of IT workers. That is why they are scattered all over the world looking for jobs.
That’s a shame.
It’s more of a shame they didn’t have to train their replacements first...
after being told that the reason they were getting replaced, was that their replacements were “more qualified.”
OK, you win the thrad.
And I’ve finished my coffee, or you’d owe me a new keyboard too.
Most large us companies are experts at "nickel and diming" the layoffs across states so they never exceed the threshold for notices.
Anyone know which company this is?
Otherwise just a story
GTFO!
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
It sucked for Americans who were laid off and in some cases told to train their Indian replacements or lose all severance.
..."nothing from nothing leaves nothing" - Billy Preston
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