Engineer lost his job for talking in hindi
A 78-year-old Indian-origin engineer living in the US was fired from his job just because he was talking to a dying relative in Hindi. According to reports, another employee overheard the conversation in Hindi over the video call and lodged a complaint. According to the media, Anil Varshney had been working with a missile defense contractor in Alabama for a long time and has challenged the decision to fire him in court.
Varshney had become unemployed in October last year
Anil Varshney Huntsvili worked as a senior systems engineer at missile defense contractor Parsons Corporation. He has alleged in a lawsuit filed in federal court that he was subjected to systemic discrimination that left him unemployed in October last year. AL.com reported Monday that a white colleague overheard Varshney speaking in Hindi on the phone to a dying relative in India. On 26 September 2023, Varshney received a call from ‘his dying relative KC Gupta from India who wanted to speak to Varshney for the last time’.
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“Given the gravity of the situation, Varshney may never again get a chance to speak to Gupta, he went to a vacant lot and spoke on the phone,” the suit said. Before picking up the phone, he made sure there was no classified material or material related to the work of MDA (Missile Defense Agency) or Parsons in his possession.
That proved to be the last conversation between Gupta and Varshney
According to the lawsuit filed in Alabama’s Northern District Court in June, the two spoke in Hindi for about two minutes when another employee approached Varshney and asked if he was on a video call, to which he replied yes. Gave. According to the suit, “another employee told Varshney that phone calls were not allowed, whereupon he immediately hung up and that was his last conversation with Gupta.”
