[lgbtdiscuss] Re: Call centres likened to "Sodom and Gomorrah"

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 02:35:57 -0800 

Umm....are these people even for real??!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On 21 Nov, 16:28, "aryakrishnan ramakrishnan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Call centres likened to "Sodom and Gomorrah"
> Thu, November 23 2006, Asian pacific post
>
> http://www.asianpacificpost.com/portal2/ff8080810f167d0f010f1695bd450...
>
> The archbishop of Bangalore does not think the city's legions of call
> centre workers are going straight to hell.
>
> But he, like many in conservative India, is worried that the young men
> and women working the phones at night may be engaging in unsaintly
> bouts of sex and drug-taking. While Westerners may vilify India's call
> centre workers for stealing their jobs, conservatives at home worry
> the young employees - who mostly work overnight and earn far more than
> earlier generations - are helping themselves to an alien set of
> Western values.
>
> "Many have told me they have spiritual problems," said Bernard Moras,
> the most senior Catholic in a city of more than half a million
> Christians. "Girls will come to me saying, 'I have been friends with a
> boy, I have misbehaved, I feel perturbed in heart and mind'," he
> delicately added, according to a report published in Australia.
>
> The Indian media has helped fuel the call centres' "Sodom and
> Gomorrah" reputation with stories of used condoms blocking call centre
> toilet drains and drug taking during night-shifts.
>
> It suggests this behaviour is the inevitable consequence of young
> people working the night-shift to deal with customers in the West,
> even if it's to discuss staid topics such as the customer's mortgage
> repayment or why the printer won't print. Call centres have been a
> powerful catalyst for a blossoming youth culture in India by giving
> large numbers of young Indians the financial means to live away from
> the disapproving glares of their elders and to enjoy cafes, malls and
> bars that did not exist a generation ago. Their paypackets of up to
> 20,000 rupees (C$511) a month are 10 times higher than the national
> average monthly salary.
>
> "Call centres are now seen as red-light districts," said
> anthropologist Shiv Visvanathan. "Even the name 'call centre' evokes
> call girls".
>
> But despite their increasing independence, call centre workers say
> media reports of the death of Indian conservative values in Bangalore
> may have been greatly exaggerated. An almost impenetrable barricade of
> parked motorbikes blocks the entrance to Purple Haze, one of the many
> Bangalore bars brimming at the weekend with outsourcing and IT
> industry workers. Inside young men in grungy clothes headbang to hard
> rock.
>
> Vicky, whooping along to music videos blaring overhead, is one of an
> estimated 415,000 people working in call centres outsourced to India
> from the West to deal with mundane issues such as utility payments and
> credit card bills.
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