Reply to: What's a Bob (agent/resource)?

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Reading a few posts, I gather imported staff are sometimes referred to as "Bobs" and that Indian agents/agencies/outsources are also occasionally referred to as Bobs.. So, what's a Bob (as it seems, multiple people/things can be one...) ?

Cheers..

mjcp

It's a noun used to describe Johnny Foreigners of Indian, Pakistani, or Bangladeshi descent employed for very low wages in the IT industry and sitting far too close to the white strapping boys from Kent (mostly pro-Brexit).(*)

(*) To be fair, one has to acknowledge that the aforementioned groups seem to be incapable of learning to speak the version of English spoken by the other group which prevents them from understanding each other. This flaw of character frequently leads to completely different definitions of the meaning of words "deliverables", "delivered", "complete" (with the exception of the phrases like "complete idiot", "completely ****ed"), "working", "failed", "honest", etc.

[Mordac]

Reading a few posts, I gather imported staff are sometimes referred to as "Bobs" and that Indian agents/agencies/outsources are also occasionally referred to as Bobs.. So, what's a Bob (as it seems, multiple people/things can be one...) ?

Cheers..

mjcp

Bob = Bottom of barrel (a reference to the typically substandard work performed by certain bodyshop companies, which tended to be from a particular part of the world). So a "Bob" is generally someone who has been selected solely on the basis of being cheap.

[MrMarkyMark]

Ah, Thanks for the responses, I thought it was something along those lines...

Re the link to Mr Shawadiwadi's entry.. a nice little giggle in the absence of a BOFH this week.

mjcp

Whats a <SNIP - I will save the Mods the Trouble>

I would imagine the term originally came about due to the term "Achha" (pronounced ah-chha), along with the pronounced head shake.

New to most, but not those that had spent a lot of time in India for years.

[mjcp]

Ah, Thanks for the responses, I thought it was something along those lines...

Re the link to Mr Shawadiwadi's entry.. a nice little giggle in the absence of a BOFH this week.

mjcp

[BrilloPad]

Best to keep it that way IMO. Make my blood boil that place.

As much as CUK? Considering <mod deleted> as racist term is just silly.

[northernladuk]

Never been there in my entire life

Best to keep it that way IMO. Make my blood boil that place.

[Big Blue Plymouth]

Ah yes.

http://www.immigrationboards.com/ind...140318-20.html

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Never been there in my entire life

[cojak]

It is a term that was of its time.

Its use is no longer encouraged and I remove it and replace with the nationality of the person it refers to.

Unless it refers specifically to Mr Shawadiwadi.

[administrator]

Ah yes.

http://www.immigrationboards.com/ind...140318-20.html

I missed that one at the time

[europetractor]

Still Bobs are more like lords or dukes compared to eastern europeans or russians. I think it is because those have never been conquered.

[northernladyuk]

There was only ever one Bob.

Bob Shawadiwadi

Ah yes.

http://www.immigrationboards.com/ind...140318-20.html

[scooterscot]

Yes it's a racist term. Just like jock is for a Scottish person.

Rasism, you get used to it.

[administrator]

There was only ever one Bob.

Bob Shawadiwadi

[northernladyuk]

Reading a few posts, I gather imported staff are sometimes referred to as "Bobs" and that Indian agents/agencies/outsources are also occasionally referred to as Bobs.. So, what's a Bob (as it seems, multiple people/things can be one...) ?

Cheers..

mjcp

Bob is a racist CUK term for Indian. A bit like Dago (as in Diego) for Spanish speaking people.

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