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Tata Consulting Services
Recently, Ravi Handa, the founder of Handauncle (an AI agent that helps users with personal finance), took to X (formerly Twitter) and posted a screenshot from Reddit.
The screenshot revealed that an anonymous user claimed a colleague at Tata Consultancy Services was “coerced” into resigning from their job. The reason was his name being on a “fluidity list.”
The incident, according to the Reddit screenshot, happened in Chennai, Siruseri.
“IMMEDIATE TERMINATION”
“Apparently TCS has a “fluidity list” and people are getting fired based on that,” Ravi Handa wrote on his X post.
The Reddit screenshot detailed an incident in which a colleague was forced to resign from his job without any notice period.
The post read, “A mate just got called into a meeting room with his laptop and assets, in Chennai Siruseri. He found a panel waiting for him there.They mentioned his name was in some FLUIDITY List and he was coerced into writing a resignation letter to the company with no notice This resulted in immediate termination. His badge got taken and he got stripped of all his assets.”
Further, the Reddit user stated that the same practice was “happening everywhere,” with the HR department having to meet a target of “culling jobs.”
Calling it ruthless and unethical to make an employee resign on the spot without his will, the Reddit user called the TCS HR wing “worst of all.”
WHAT IS A FLUIDITY LIST
While it is unclear as to which “fluidity list” the Reddit user was talking about, generally, this list in companies and organizations is known to add employees who are to be potentially released from their current projects or the company itself due to factors like poor performance, lack of skills, or cost optimization reasons.
WHAT DID NETIZENS SAY
Reacting to the post, multiple netizens were unaware of what exactly a fluidity list means.
Others left comments like, “Why do people accept to resign, especially without compensation?” and “Very old scam in IT service companies. I know people - years back getting fired for this.”
Another X user commented,“It's better to have hire/fire at will with low notice period (2 weeks) and decent severance. Employers will be braver to hire and should be allowed to downsize if existing level of business doesn't support the headcount. For employees there will be many more options in such a market and overall they will benefit from the Dynamism. Making it super hard to fire people, results in bad behaviour like this and fewer overall jobs with lower pay.”