How many of those are productive hours? I hope there’s at least 20 of doing fuck all.
If you’ve ever tried to do anything in India… It’s like 10% productivity
Most of it is probably listening to people hang up on you, or being sent to voicemail.
I honestly feel so bad for those people. I could never do that job.
I’ve been at jobs where 72 hour and were required. But in those 72 hours we are amok three meals and went to the gym. There was plenty of screw off time as well.
I’m working right now. I signed on half an hour ago and they still haven’t been given anything to do
Can you do the needful and revert to me?
This monkey with cymbals keeps telling me things
Kinda depends since a lot of those jobs are in manual labor sitches where you can’t really just browse the net and then swap the window when you see the floor manager walking by to look like you’re busy.
Unless every worker in India is a millionaire, this seems like gross exploitation.
India is not an expensive place to live, so what is 60h+ getting these people?
Mr. Murthy is almost happy
The majority of Indians are farmers, and they don’t have fixed hours. They do whatever it takes to get a good harvest, or they’re in trouble.
You can see in the map how the agricultural state have higher numbers, with Bihar being the big exception.
The survey title seems to indicate they are targeting urban men with these surveys. I would think that would exclude agricultural workers, wouldn’t it?
From what I’ve casually heard over the years, and someone correct me if I’m wrong, lots of people try to get urban jobs because most are from farms and they’re poor. That’s one of the reasons call centers are so big.
This is true, but most of them actually work in light industry, construction, garments and so on. Call centres are a fairly minor sector.
Gotcha, thank you
My bad! I’m middle class so I know things are worse for many people, but I didn’t realise it was this bad.
I work around 45 hours a week and earn around 35,000 rupees monthly. Translates to around 5k USD yearly. This is on the lower end for someone working in tech (I’m in QA, not a dev), developers can expect from 6k to 24k USD on average. They are also expected to reach work harder, though. There are exceptions to this, obviously.
Like… that sounds pretty good. Everyone on here being like “OMG EVERY TIME I THINK THE USA IS SO BAD I SEE SOMETHING LIKE THIS AND IM GRATEFUL I LIVE THERE”
…does it? I make more than 10x that as QA in germany, work 40 hours a week (with 30 vacation days, no idea what vacation standards are in india) and cost of living is around 4x what it is in india.
Even with what I hear from the US that still seems worse since you just make far less money relative to cost of living, as I’d imagine US salaries are higher than here if anything.
“OMG EVERY TIME I THINK THE USA IS SO BAD I SEE SOMETHING LIKE THIS AND IM GRATEFUL I LIVE THERE”
We expect better from the land that exports their culture everywhere and claims to be NuMBAH 1!
EDIT : when was the last time you saw a bollywood film advertised in your country on tv or on a billboard?
I mean i don’t really watch anything with advertisements in it and we don’t really do the whole movie ads on billboards thing in Alberta that I’ve seen, so I’m probably a bad person to ask. But I assume it doesn’t really happen in situations where that would happen I guess?
you know damn well there are no bollywood adverts, and there are PLENTY of hollywood adverts.
Yeah I’m sure there are.
I guess I don’t understand what you’re trying to say
Doing the needful.
Every time they write this in an email it boils my blood. Because they write it without any kind of context as to what “the needful” is.
At this point I’ve taken it to just be a common catch all phrase that just gets thrown in at the end of a sentence and can essentially be ignored as it contains no linguistic meaning.
I basically have to deal with Indian IT call centers for a living, and I always try (sadly, not always successfully) to frame my exasperation like this: if I got paid what they got paid to do their jobs, and if I had to work the hours that they do, I wouldn’t give a shit about my job, either.
I die a little inside when my coworkers call them stupid. They don’t stop to think that their work culture makes ours in the US seem downright relaxing.
I’m reminded of my impulse whenever I get a rate-our-service popup: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐💯 Perfect Service! Absolutely Nothing Went Wrong PLEASE DO NOT FIRE ANYONE!
As much as my own country’s system sucks, I’m reminded to be grateful for what we have while remaining resolute to fight for more.
People likely died to protect what you have.
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Is that supposed to make me glad that I’m exploited?
I’ve been working with Indians onsite and remotely for most my working life. In both cases for the maybe hundreds of Indian colleagues I’ve had, I have never had any impression they are more productive in any way than local/native colleagues. On the contrary actually very much. And most of us locally work 32 - 40 hours a week.
Yeah I work 40 hours a week and I have no idea what their work schedule is but they definitely don’t get as much done as we do but also like their pay piddens compared to us, so it’s not really surprising.
An other example of hard work not making you rich.
I like my boss, he’s a good friend of mine, that’s why I’m starving out on the bread line
God damn, that’s insane. I’m doing half of that per week. I would just be sleeping ever single minute I’m not working.
for those who do not know mr murthy
Nagaland: naga take your shit boss!
Guessing this is mean average, what’s the median?
Since there can’t super crazy outliers, the median probably isn’t that far off.
on a related, but perhaps lighter note, : if anyone wants to hear a tale, involving a worker that succeeds in quitting an exploitative job, and goes off to do something better with their time, you might watch/listen to : https://piped.video/watch?v=WNuv0_MLrKg (and to link to the post thurther, the setting for the somewhat dystopia start of this story, as for the post above , is also in India. )
