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Hello from Bangalore

Discussion in 'Introductions' started by arun_infy, May 11, 2005.

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  1. #1
    Hey guyz!

    I am not new to DP, I have always played around with different names and places. I just thought I'll go with my actual name this time...
    I'm doing my computer science and engineering...

    Arun
    www.arunc.info
     
    arun_infy, May 11, 2005 IP
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    T0PS3O Feel Good PLC

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    Welcome to DP!

    I believe I speak to people in Bangalore when I enquire about train times or my gas bill here from the UK... Interesting phenomenon.
     
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    arun_infy Peon

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    yes, that's outsourcing for you...
     
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    Ther are too many call center's coming up! And its the silicon valley of India
     
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    arun_infy Peon

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    Are you BANGALORED?

    This word has been discussed recently in the Bangkok Post, the Times of India and other Asian newspapers. A search suggests it has been in use in the USA for about the past year but is only now beginning to appear in print.

    It refers to people who have been laid off from a multinational because their job has been moved to India—a business practice designed to save money that is arousing passions in some countries, especially Britain and the United States. Bangalore is cited in particular because of its reputation in the USA as a high-tech city, the Indian equivalent of Silicon Valley, that has benefited significantly from such outsourcing. When this piece first appeared, in the newsletter, many subscribers immediately connected it with the Bangalore torpedo, a tube packed with explosive used by troops for blowing up wire entanglements, which got its name because it was invented in that city. I had thought that the term, which is first recorded in 1913 and was common in both world wars, was now so rare among the public at large that it could not be an influence on the new term. But I’m told that the phrase was used in the recent film Saving Private Ryan, which conceivably might have brought it to mind.

    One Web site is selling T-shirts with the slogan “Don’t Get Bangalored” as a way of telling people about the issue. What’s odd about the term, from the point of view of language, is that it’s unusual for a place name to become a verb, though we may remember Sodom from the Bible and Shanghaied has been known since about 1870, at first in the sense of kidnapping a person to make up the crew numbers on a ship, but now more generally to be forced into doing something against one’s will.

    I am a software developer who is about to be “Bangalored.” Fine. I am not going to pout about it. The media write that we are in a “global economy,” so deal with it.

    [Electronic Engineering Times, Apr. 2004]

    It may not be entirely correct for US dictionaries to verbalise outsourcing to India as Bangalored! With India’s capital city also attracting call centres ... the Americans could perhaps also talk in terms of their jobs being “Delhi-ted”.

    [Economic Times (India), 24 July 2004]

    An article take from : http://www.worldwidewords.org/turnsofphrase/tp-ban1.htm
     
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    Colleen Illustrious Member

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    I hope that doesn't mean you have multiple accounts, you can get banned for that.

    Anyway, welcome to the forum, Arun.
     
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    arun_infy Peon

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    I don't have multiple account...
     
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    of course you don't, why would you :confused: :p

    Welcome to dp from Copenhagen, Denmark
     
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    I hope you didn't post anything completely interesting above ^ because I didn't read any of it.

    Hi Welcome to the forum, Kiddah.
     
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    palespyder Psycho Ninja

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    Welcome to the madness.....I mean the forums...... :eek:
     
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    Welcome from London
     
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    zez Peon

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    Welcome to DP forum....
     
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    welcome to DP from philippines! :D
     
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    Hi Arun, welcome to DP
     
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    Hello all !
     
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    Welcome to DP forums from Cochin! :D
     
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    Seems a busy place around here ?
     
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    yeh it is. It's the forum that never sleeps.
     
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    I think I have found some where new to hang out, thanks !
     
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    Yeh :) You'll love it. I only came on to generally releave my boredom for a few hours but I fell in E-love with them all & 1,592 posts later I'm still here :eek:
     
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