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If you are working in India on an outsourcing contract where your clients are from North America or farther side of Europe, then the following should be true.

You have to sit on calls...
1. That make absolutely no sense to you.
2. That you have to attend for attendance sakes!
3. where, for the first 10 minutes of the call, there would be howling and loud laughing amongst the other team members. The jokes? If there were any, would be interpretable only by them. And yet they want everyone on the call to laugh.
4. which, @ Rs.7.20 per minute, these are a drain on the funding that you get for your account/department. Spare a little of these precious pennies, and you can give a better hike to someone who otherwise would get the same amount as a rise for the whole month.
5. where you have to listen to your name being shred into nothing by people who cannot pronounce Indian names. And bearing it.
6. Which you have to wait till 1AM or even later to attend... to do all the above. (body bio-clock? what's that?)
7. Even through festivals/holidays! For example, attending calls during Diwali weekend or Dandia Raas week!
8. (Oh yes.. how did I miss it?) Where you end up wishing "Good Morning, Folks!" at 8PM in the evening... lol

Any more that you can add to the list above? Please share!