I experienced today what has been so far the most ironic
moments of my life. I, an Indian by origin, who came to the US almost two years
with a techie husband (what else) landed in a job as a Website Editor just a
month ago, only to lose that job to someone back in India. I've heard of the term 'Bangalored', which typically means losing your job due to the outsourcing of the job to a low cost off-shore center like Bangalore or Manila. But for someone like me from Bangalore (ok not exactly from Bangalore, but from another metro 215 miles away, called Chennai) to be Bangalored was something surreal.
We were just an hour
into work on this Monday morning when about 80-100 of us were called in for a
meeting all of a sudden. As the HR head started elaborating about how the
company was making a lot of efforts to control costs, we were prepared for what
was going to come next. That was when we were told about us being laid off and
that the jobs were going to be outsourced to India and Philippines as part of the restructuring exercise by the company. Thank you guys! I now know how it feels to be 'Bangalored'.
