"Bangalored"
"I got Bangalored"
This is one of the most wierdest phrase that I have come across in a long time. Bangalore, the IT face of India has been making waves across the world with the outsourcing business but coining a term after it, is kinda outrageous. 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. There are even some websites which are selling T-Shirts with the slogan “Don’t Get Bangalored” as a way of telling people about the issue.
A place name becoming a verb: strange and very whacky. As an Indian, Iam not sure whether this is an achievment, that we are able to shake US economy or its derogatory to have one of our cities used in such negative sense world wide. Any comments?
This is one of the most wierdest phrase that I have come across in a long time. Bangalore, the IT face of India has been making waves across the world with the outsourcing business but coining a term after it, is kinda outrageous. 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. There are even some websites which are selling T-Shirts with the slogan “Don’t Get Bangalored” as a way of telling people about the issue.
A place name becoming a verb: strange and very whacky. As an Indian, Iam not sure whether this is an achievment, that we are able to shake US economy or its derogatory to have one of our cities used in such negative sense world wide. Any comments?
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Bangalored! I am surprised that you are hearing this term after so long. Probably many of us think that it is an achievement of some sorts.
But on a quick view, we forget that it is only some dumb coding that is being offshored to us. There is hardly an element of innovation with what goes on. It's what you could call a software assembly line. People trained to do one mundane job and they are bloody efficient at it.
Never really heard of any of our Indian software 'giants' based in this Silicon Valley contributing or doing the sort of stuff that is redefining software and the web.
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