World News impacting MY call volume
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collwenIndia’s Technology Capital Braces for Protest
Karnataka, the Indian state that has Bangalore in it, is being shut down by a set of organized activist groups today/tomorrow (12 hrs starting at 8:30pm EST tonight) over a border dispute with Maharashtra, the state to the north.
Not only does IBM have a lot of people in Bangalore (including the other group of people who takes calls on my account), but other companies like Yahoo, Google, Infosys, and Texas Instruments have major resources in Bangalore.
So I'm here tonight for OT on the possibility that by effectively losing the India Desk we're going to get slammed. And tomorrow morning they have more people coming in the early hours as well. Even though the protest should end at 8:30 am EST), there would be time before the city and transportation are back enough for the Indian agents to get from home to the office.
I wish that there was a cause big enough that a disruption like that could be done here in the States. Heck... back in April an actor's death (by cardiac arrest) in Bangalore caused riots that actually killed additional people.
Karnataka, the Indian state that has Bangalore in it, is being shut down by a set of organized activist groups today/tomorrow (12 hrs starting at 8:30pm EST tonight) over a border dispute with Maharashtra, the state to the north.
Not only does IBM have a lot of people in Bangalore (including the other group of people who takes calls on my account), but other companies like Yahoo, Google, Infosys, and Texas Instruments have major resources in Bangalore.
So I'm here tonight for OT on the possibility that by effectively losing the India Desk we're going to get slammed. And tomorrow morning they have more people coming in the early hours as well. Even though the protest should end at 8:30 am EST), there would be time before the city and transportation are back enough for the Indian agents to get from home to the office.
I wish that there was a cause big enough that a disruption like that could be done here in the States. Heck... back in April an actor's death (by cardiac arrest) in Bangalore caused riots that actually killed additional people.
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Date: 2006-10-04 01:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-10-04 12:59 pm (UTC)Last night (when I was working OT) and this morning... it's been pretty quiet.