Bangalore- Garden city - Coding city
Finally! In Bangalore. The most talked about city in India. A city with imprecise number of giant IT companies,boasting their remarkable buildings. You wont find any geeky IT company which has its branch in India and it does not have its headquarter in this city. I have spent just 3-4 days in the city and i am already get to know that this city speaks code. Fellas, I am not joking. Every other person on the street talks about programming. C,C++, Java, Oracle and God knows what more.
You get onto a buss, the conductor scans you and asks, “Where aaa?” Suppose u say, “Richmond”. He will quickly enquire you, “IBM office aaa?”. Can’t I go to Richmond to meet my girl or to catch up with a friend who recently got promoted to some on-site project in Libya? You will go to some eateries and will see a flock of guys complaining about their project allocations and how it has no future prospects and shit. Or how are they terribly getting pissed by their project lead. I mean come on dude don’t you give a damn about Metallica coming for a gig in your city? Or any national crisis you came across in the newspaper article this morning? (if at all you read newspaper, making time out of your heavy Java books).
Well this is something interesting that I would like to share. Do you know what Bangalore means? No. I am definitely not talking about its native meaning. You would be surprised to know that Bangalore has more than one meaning in Urban Dictionary.
1) Bangalore (transitive verb): To fire a worker because his or her job is getting outsourced to an offshore company overseas.
Example-Dude, I just got bangalored! Now I'm gonna have to train on flipping burgers at McDonalds.
2) Bangalore (intransitive verb): (of a company or management) to outsource jobs to an offshore company.
Example- That company is considering bangaloring. That's why the morale of its employees has hit rock bottom.
Also to cheer you up Bangalore is referred to as seemingly inexhaustible source of polite, well-educated, hard-working, low-cost technical talent. Undoubtedly true, but why stereotyping? The city is so beautiful filled with good people, nice chilled climate, good food, good music, happening places and so many other things that I am yet to explore. Why tagging it to a city which creates fear in the heart of the people from west of getting downsized?
We aren’t that bad. Are we?
