While there is a lot of criticism on this move by TCS..one should not forget that this was the company which has never laid off an employee even during the 2002-3 software crisis. The company has not yet gone the route of firing employees. One feels safe with such a company and perhaps wouldn't mind getting a few bucks less and still have a great amt of flexibility of working in myraid technologies/countries etc. Talk also about the good things the company has done folks !!!What you are seeing is more a downstream effect of the US slow down, appreciating Rupee, the sub prime crisis. Live with it...I work for an MNC in the US always in fear that I maybe fired tomorrow..not because, I am not doing well..but because the company may not be doing very well..Consider yourself fortunate if you are working for TCS !!! - NMP