You guys ever have company meetings with an Indian coworker and you zone out because you donโt understand what the hell heโs saying?
>>60515436 (OP)Yes, weekly. I feed it into ChatGPT and Apple's own voice recognition, the AIs can't make sense of it either.
I'm a contractor though, they are replacing me and some other guy with a team of 12 Indians.
>>60515436 (OP)I just laugh in my head at his accent.
This happens at any big tech environment, happened to me multiple times. You kinda have to train your ear to understand them but it makes it all so difficult, especially due to the fact theyre hard assed dense motherfuckers. God I hate working with them
if you were to type how they sound what would that look like?
You know something funny? There's so much controversy around H1B and Indian immigrants, but all of the Indians I know who actually moved over here have been kind and hardworking. It's the Indians still in India who are a pain to work with.
And for lots of objective reasons, too. Having a 9 hour time difference, poor quality internet connection/hardware, thick accents that are hard to understand, poor english language proficiency. All things that make it hard to do jobs that require frequent clear communication.
It baffles me how much focus is given to tarrifs and immigration when the first step of preventing businesses from outsourcing technical/support jobs is so simple. There's no supply lines that need to changed, plenty of qualified workers in America, and doesn't require physically removing people from the country.
>>60515436 (OP)I'm an engineer, and I once had an Indian coworker who pronounced the abbreviation of millimeter as "em em" instead of "mil." I told him that people call them mil in the UK but he was too stubborn to actually attempt to fit in.