The phone rang around 8:30pm (Austin, USA, time) on October 12. I was busy teaching my son math so my wife, Suchetha, picked up the phone. It was my nephew, Sandeep, and she asked, “Sandeep what’s up?” Next, I saw my wife run out of the front door with voice cracking, “what are you saying?” My heart immediately started to pound and ran out yelling, “what happened?” I realized that it was the “Dreaded Call” that I was mentally preparing to hear, but never willing to accept t

You worked very hard in your job and surpassed every metric that your boss had stated. Your boss always wanted you by his/her side for key presentations and even asked you to make the selling given your communication skills. You participated in every important event in the organization and helped organized these events. You took leadership roles. You were a great citizen of your organization and everyone thought very high of you. They acknowledged how wonderful it is to work