Has he been to an office before? Just because you're in an office doesn't mean you're "working hard." Lots of people do random web browsing, online shopping, etc., while at work and on the clock. Typical belief of old timers. They think your presence at a desk is somehow a magical indicator of a hard worker.
Infosys is a fake tech company that doesn’t actually provide real services. They provide promises of services, then they do not deliver any of the services at all.
This company is a notorious scam. India should not have “national pride” in a scam company. They should get rid of these companies and do honest work instead.
Scams exist everywhere, but India literally has billions of people running call centers dedicated to shamelessly scamming elderly English speakers out of their money.
I mean, how many times has Kitboga made the call and was greeted by a Swedish, or Spanish, or French accent.
No, it's always an Indian person who wants to get team viewer installed and bank accounts signed into.
Sidenote, I want to know why Target gift cards are the gold standard for money laundering.
Anyway, it sounds racist, but it's still a fact. India's far and away leading export is posing as people who are tech savvy so they can scam the elderly, be it the retired living on social security or Boomer CEOs who would be caught dead before properly paying and investing in their actual employees.
Infosys is just the next step in the path of "this is Microsoft support rebate department and I jUsT rEfUnDeD yOu ThE wRoNg AmOuNt."
Edit: I did something my fellow millennial do that I try not to. I put 'literally' next to a hyperbole statement.
I apologize for the grammar foul, but it doesn't sink my point.
Scams exist everywhere, but India literally has billions of people running call centers dedicated to shamelessly scamming elderly English speakers out of their money.
India literally does not have billions of people, so this statement is literally impossible.
Still not quite sure if I’d guess >200 million (minimum for “hundreds of millions”) people in India work in scam call centres. That would be 14% of their total population, or 37% of their working population. I’d definitely give you millions, maybe tens of millions if research supports it.
It’s a problem on a massive scale, no need to be hyperbolic.
This is kind of racist though. Indian citizens don’t choose to be scammers in a way that Europeans don’t. Its a natural consequence of the countries establishment of business services combined with widespread systemic poverty. This traces back to international business deals, political and economic circumstances. It’s not a cultural thing.
It doesn’t mean that scam call centers are good. But Indians have definitely been exploited by international business. Only natural that they end up returning the favor.
I called out how it sounded racist, but that doesn't mean there isn't a problematic scam culture that is centered in India.
Whatever the cause, I would like the problem to be resolved and not just filed away under "that's racist".
Edit: rereading this, I bet most of the same can be said for the US stock market. And the US credit system. Only difference is them asshats are scamming under the guise of business instead of the guise of tech. And I'm pretty sure they aren't hitting up Indian grandma's.
I'd be happy to see US stocks and Credit Ratings disappear tomorrow.
I'd be happy to see Indian tech scams disappear tomorrow.
I worked for them for a year and it felt like they were wanting me to scam clients with what they wanted me to claim as skills I had and services I could provide
Listen, all I am saying is that if all the billionaires disappeared over night, if you avoided mass communication media you would probably not know. If you took that same amount of collective wealth from the bottom up human society would collapse.
Not like there's murmurs about a commercial real estate crash looming due to remote work being super effective and there being no reason what so ever for CEOs to have these gigantic castles with thousands of serfs.
So glad my company downsized offices this last year. We're like 80-90% remote (I still haven't even been to the state my office is in), so there was no reason to keep a big office building that was mostly empty.
It's amazing what a company can do when they care about their employees more than a stack of bricks with shit in them.
I wouldn't go as far as to say they care about employees, there are plenty economical reasons to do so, the fact it gels with happy employees is pure happenstance..
The difference is when the drive to maximize money is greater than the need to lord over people.
That is, unless the company owns the real estate and buildings themselves, then the fear the value of the property will tank is another overriding factor that sets them against WFH.
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