10-29-2004, 08:58 PM
Bangalored: The new verbal abuse
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Bangalore may have become only the second modern city in the world to be turned into a verb after Shanghaied - a word that broadly means to force thanks to the outsourcing controversy.
An online anti-outsourcing website is marketing a T-shirt sporting the legend 'Don't Get Bangalored', suggesting the loss of one's job to outsourcing. The T-shirts, available in two designs, are priced at $15.99<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->But Americans are being ribbed even while trying to make a few bucks of the outsourcing controversy. On one website, an Indian named Harish joked that $15.99 was too high a price for a T-shirt and suggested the manufacture be outsourced.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Bangalore may have become only the second modern city in the world to be turned into a verb after Shanghaied - a word that broadly means to force thanks to the outsourcing controversy.
An online anti-outsourcing website is marketing a T-shirt sporting the legend 'Don't Get Bangalored', suggesting the loss of one's job to outsourcing. The T-shirts, available in two designs, are priced at $15.99<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->But Americans are being ribbed even while trying to make a few bucks of the outsourcing controversy. On one website, an Indian named Harish joked that $15.99 was too high a price for a T-shirt and suggested the manufacture be outsourced.
<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--> <!--emo&:lol:--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='laugh.gif' /><!--endemo-->