An entire customer support unit of the Indian team was allegedly terminated during a brief five-minute virtual call by an American financial firm, leaving the team in shock. The staff, who were instructed to work remotely for the day, received an unexpected meeting invitation late into their evening shift announcing the mass layoff without severance for newer recruits. Expressing frustration over corporate vulnerability, an affected worker shared their experience online.
All gone… 80 families affected just with a 5min call… Because their US time had the maximum amount of attrition and discretionary time, and would hardly get things right… Because of job security, would always push ourselves in the name of job security, wherein we,.
The individual continued, “All 80employees! I feel bad that we work for these corporates who can throw us anytime and regret that I used to work hard at my job. Also, Idk how I will get a new job! This is petty. An individual wrote, “Sorry, OP! This is devastating. What reason did they state for this action? The OP responded, “They were not getting the expected output from the Indian team… Bullc**p! Another commented, “Not directly, but they may be offloading a part of their workload. A third asked, “Any severance?
The OP replied, “No severance… for people working for 1 year, they will get 15 days pay for every year worked.”
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