Re:Indian IT, “You're Fired”
by JoeAltmaier on Monday July 10, 2017 @11:16AM
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My buddy was in his cubicle, then the network went down. Everybody was standing in the aisles chatting about it, milling around, and HR showed up. Read a list of names, got them in a group, escorted them out of the building. Then the network came back up. Back to work!
Years ago, I was a consultant onsite at my client, a high street bank, they were going through layoffs, my contact there had stashed a bottle of champagne and some paper cups in his desk, his plan was when they called his name, he would pour everyone a cup before going to meet his fate.
He was the only one who didn't get called... Neither of us could stop laughing...
Such a sad story! Somehow it reminded me a mix of 1984 and Brazil.
Next: escorting fired people at gunpoint with guards ready to... fire!
I saw that in Moscow in 2008 (one big investment bank fired several guys from our team in 20-30 minutes in front of my eyes). It was very unusual. They did now allow a fired person to touch his computer after firing him.