Wednesday, November 14, 2007

Now I understand why

I have two previous posts about:
I really DO NOT Understand them!! & Are u a Child?
The former one I talked about how I was angry with the Indians' working attitude and behaviour. The latter one I talked about how I feel when my Indian boss treat me like a child i.e. Indians.

When I combined these two articles - I have finally understand why.
Why do Indians like to control/ order ppl to do things? Why wouldn't they trust their employees? Why was my driver so slack? Why??
Because the Indians are "trained" to behave like that - To treat ppl like that & expect ppl to treat them like a child. (controlled and be controlled)

Indian employers have to control every lower class employees - which are the majority - because if they don't they would be the one who suffer.
Majority Indians are not well educated. Drivers will steal petrol from employer's vehicles; maids would steal money and things at home, coffee boys would "take" home some sugars, tea, coffee when their stocks runs out; courier boy would go somewhere else to chill out instead of dispatching your docs; when u put a project pipelines alongside the street, ppl would sleep/shit inside your pipe; steel/windows of an unfinished projects would get stolen.. etc
These are my daily encounters in India. It happened here....

Because of all these - employers are trained to control their employees, they just don't trust ppl anymore.
On the other hand, Indian employees would like to be told what to do.
They would not treat one foreigner differently, because they don't think that is anything wrong with this behaviour. I can understand it now.

Good news and bad news - the good news is I would not get myself angry/ pissed off when things like this happened again.
Bad news is - I WILL "educate" my employer. Sorry I am just not Indian.

4 comments:

synergylyn said...

Go, V!! I support your education campaign. You and The Bert will have a lot to discuss about Indians. Haha...

Oh Oh Oh said...

Yes I guess I need to find someone "same tune" to "discuss" about Indians. haha

Anonymous said...

haha....I am glad you've look at it in the positive way. Good for you, OLK. :)

Someone said, the difference between Chinese and Indian is that Chinese cannot do without a bargain, and the Indian cannot live without a bargain.

I think it will take more than just "educate". :)

Anonymous said...

hahahahahaha........