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2 jobs ago, the business partner for the company I was working at basically outsourced all of their programming work to india. Not a single person in the US on their team knew how either their code or our machine worked.

Anyway, I remember quite a few timesnhearong the work schedule these people had. Theu had one dude who regularly was up until like 5 in the god damn morning so that they could have someone testing their code with our machine.

To literally the politest version of that reply, as well. Not "mind your language", you mean "stop making me feel like the bad guy"

The client will always wait. These hustle addicts forget all the times they had to reschedule to accommodate ((wow 2 c and 2 m? Seems excessive)) others. Life happens and we work around it.

This is exactly it. When I was a bit younger I worked hard. I couldn't understand why others were not as hardworking as myself. Luckily I learned pretty early on that this is not the way. I was able to travel the world for a bit. After that, I took a leap of faith, quit my job, and just moved. After I quit my job, I started to think about how people would think about the work I did and what I left behind. And I realized, they probably won't think much about it at all. Some other person will come in and pick up where I left off. They will probably cuss me out because of some of the things I had to do. At the end of it, there is no legacy I will leave behind. No one will care. No one will remember.

These days, I am still pretty good at my job, but I don't really go above and beyond. So what if you get some award at your company. They don't mean anything. I go to work. Do my job and that's it. I try to chill and take it as easy as possible. I get paid to produce a certain amount of output and that is what I give. There are people that will still get rich off of the amount of work that I do, but I don't care. I have enough to get by in life to where I am content. Luckily, if I am ever in a situation like this post, I can tell them to go fuck themselves and quit.

I only found that funny when watching reality shows like east coast choppers or something. We need to build this bike for our very busy customer Kid Rock. He needs it in 10 days, because he needs to ride his new bike then. Alright gang, time to work 16 hour days.

Then they keep hammering in how very important it is and he's not gonna pay if he gets it 2 hours too late. I know it's all just fake theatrical reality tv, but even as a child i never got the whole urgency they tried to push. All i thought was: so what, lol, fuck them

This right here is why I love being a nurse. Every day I go to work it matters

its vertigo important.

Now introducing cryptocommodities, totally not a currency at all.

My own experience of being, within a large transnational company, technical lead of a small team based in India for a cross-border software development project, is that their own management structures over there were spectacularly incompetent (and I come from a country - Portugal - were management practices are, IMHO, shit compared to the rest of Europe).

Amongst other things, they still had ancient management practices such as "managers must always earn more than technical personnel" which meant that even a junior manager earned more than a senior developer, in turn directly leading to bright young developers moving to management (were they were invariably shit) within maybe 5 years purelly because it was the only way to earn more money, so as a result the broader team (so, not just my project) there had no good senior developers - it was either "senior" in the sense of lots of years working there rather than senior-level expertise or a handful of junior and mid-level devs who were good at that level and could turn into competente senior techies, but were bound to transition to management as even a junior manager earned more than a senior techie.

Other "funny" things were how nobody there would never, ever, ever admit not to have fully understood something or needing more clarification during an open call about the project next-steps with the rest of the team, so I had to do "special handling" for my remote team of talking to each one individually and carefully tease away their questions with some kind of "it's on me" excuse, for example, saying that "I want to make sure I explained things correctly and didn't miss anything important". Notice that my Indian colleagues who were not based in India but rather sat with the rest in London, did not have that peculiar behaviour.

Unsurprisingly, that outsourced team which existed as part of an outsourcing division the senior management of the company had decided to set up in India to cut development costs, didn't actually add significant value because of the overhead of dealing with them and the need to check and correct their work, mean that the vastly more senior - and costly, as half of us were contractors - team in London (of which I was part) ended up losing almost as much time dealing with them and the side-effects of the low quality of their work as was gained from having that India-based team doing part of the development work.

I have a coworker who is from India, and he's a great guy, but this describes him pretty well:

They seem to take great pleasure in been mindless drones and doing everything by the book, which often results in more work than would have happened if they had engage some in common sense.

It doesn't help that his supervisor is pretty new himself. Sometimes he asks me for advice, or how to do something, and it feels like I'm deprogramming him or something... I think he's slowly getting there, but you can tell that, "yes, that is technically what it says, but this is how we actually do it..." just breaks his brain sometimes lol

I'm glad you got that off your chest; it's a fun story.

I don't really see the correlation between doing the work and the India office being mentioned. Was it like "the US office does this, Brazilian office does that" and since India wasn't mentioned they thought you were handing off extra work to them that you were supposed to do?

Even aside from the soap opera-like conversation, the timestamps seem pretty suspect to me. Even assuming STT input it seems unlikely both sides (especially with one being ostensibly emotionally distraught) would be reading and responding within a minute each time.

Indian managers are usually power tripping bastards.

Image may be faked but it fits a general gist of many Indians work-life expectations. Not different from China 996, Japan, or Korean work culture. Less drinking in India but that's about it.

For satire to work, it has to be based on something real.

It doesn’t really matter if this particular conversation is real. I’m sure conversations similar to this have happened many times, we just haven’t seen them. Consider this one a dramatic reenactment.

I know you're trying to compare this to caste, but India is also literally still a casteist country.

America was explicitly a racial caste state until the Civil Rights Act passed in 1964.

India similarly outlawed caste discrimination in article 17 of it's constitution at its inception.

Of course laws cannot change centuries old social customs overnight. Which is why the US employs DEI to help equalize opportunity and India has gone as far as to implement quotas for the historically disenfranchised in the public sector.

It's not like India has a particularly good economic outlook anyway so I'm not even sure what this guy's on about.

I’d say I wasn’t showing up, then I wouldn’t show up.

You still missed being with your family, and no one really gives a fuck about how distraught you look. Congrats, you got played.