Mission possible! Successfully Expelled!

This is Jitka - one of my coolest flatmates during my time in India. She just left my India unforeseen and for futile reasons. She was still to stay for more than 4 months but she got bullied out of the country. This is to let all of you know how disgusted and disappointed my flatmates, co-trainees and me are of what happened.

But let me slow down a little and tell you about today's events. Jitka is an AIESEC intern like I am and she arrived here in Mumbai almost two months ago. Today she called me to tell me that she would leave Mumbai tonight going back home to her home country - the Czech Republic - tonight. How could she decide such a thing so suddenly? Well, the company she was working for accused her for illicitly having accessed confidential business data in the companies network. All she did was searching the network for data she needed for her work but someone who checked the network connections interpreted it as spying. So she got fired immediately and her boss told her that she would be sued and expelled from the country. The only existing proof is a screenshot of her connection to another computer in the network.

What could one do in such a situation? What could one expect? Object and file a lawsuit and - if winnig it - continuing working in such an environment? Could she expect a compensation? No, not as intern. Without money in a foreign country and the only thing awaiting you a possible lawsuit and maybe even the police interrogating you? All she could get is a proof of innocence, no money, probably not even an excuse, just trouble. So she decided to take the next flight back home and leave the country. And that is how she got bullied out.

I am speechless about such kind of arbitrariness and its effect. It's a shame for the company she worked for as an intern and it is a shame that such a thing can happen!

Me and all my friends here are all convinced that she is innocent. But someone else was convinced that she was a hacker. Why? Well, she once created an Excel sheet with some nice formulas and people from then on thought she would be a computer genius! I can tell you after having configured her laptop at home that she is neither a computer genius and nor could she ever write a virus or access a secured network (sorry Jitka for saying this). So we are all wondering why all this happened. Paranoia? A pretext to fire her? Probably we will never find out but now we all feel unsafe and exposed to such kind of arbitrariness.

This is a lesson to all foreign interns here in Mumbai: we are not safe her, we can be fired at will and without hope for recompensation! I am really very sorry to say so because I hope it wouldn't be true but it unfortunately is! Let's all hope that such things don't happen to us.

Bye, Jitka!