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New Delhi: An IT engineer from Noida became a Rapido driver after he left his job. A man, who claimed to be the IT engineer's friend, shared a video on social media, highlighting the worsening employment situation in tech sector.
In the clip, shared on Instagram, the social media user, Nomadic Teju, says that his friend, who is an IT engineer has been unemployed for the last two months and is now working as a part-time driver with Rapido to pay his house loan installments.
Teju further says that his friend lives in a society in Greater Noida's Gaur City and he has to pay monthly EMI of Rs 30,000. He further says that to pay his EMIs, his IT engineer friend has turned a Rapido driver.
"This society behind me is in Greater Noida's Gaur City. The cost of flats here ranges from Rs 1 crore to 2 crore and monthly rent goes up to Rs 30,000 to 35,000. One of my friends lives in one of the flats in the society on rent. My friend is jobless for the last two months. He used to live with his family but now he has sent them to his village," he says in the video.
He further says that his friend left the job presuming that he would get better jobs. "But it's been two months, since he left his job. There is no job in the market. I don't why it is so, if AI is responsible or anything else, don't know," he can be heard saying in the clip.
The video drew reactions of several social media users with many expressing concern over uncertainty in job market. “People are only now starting to realise how big this issue is. Many have already lost jobs, and many more will face this in the future," a user said.
A user said that tech layoffs pushing skilled workers into gig jobs isn’t a trend — it’s a global warning. "Talent is being displaced faster than it’s being re-trained. This isn’t a meme, it’s a signal," the user said.
Another user wrote, "Modern Indian tragedy study hard get an IT job take a massive loan for an apartment, get laid off and ride a bike taxi to pay the bank. We have successfully glamorised financial slavery as settling down."
