Around One and Half months in US, I miss India more by each passing day.. Here everything is systematic and hassle free but still however good this country be I can never become a part of it...At the same time, the opportunity to work in US gave me a chance to visualize the stark differences between the American and our "Desi" Attitude. Attitudes differ in every field of life but today I am gonna write about work.
The first and the foremost is that we don't respect punctuality. Working in India no one cares about time, where as this country is religiously punctual. I am still trying not to offend and disrespect the time of other ppl but as a matter of fact even in such a short time of my stay I have failed to do so at times. I am trying to improve.
The next thing is our "Sarkaari" and "Babu" attitude which I am sure we have inherited from our Sarkaari and Babu Shahi Ancestors. While we dedicate most of our work time to try to prove ourselves "Intelligent" and "Correct" , the ppl here work and prove themselves.
When half of the team sits in India and half in US, our Indian Desis and US Desis just fight with each other even when they might be saying the same thing. In our teams the count of managers is always in competition with the count of real team. Each manager has its own strategy and each strategy conflicts with the others.
2 Months in this project and I have never seen our desi managers agreeing with each other once. With that I have also never seen the client managers (US) fighting just for the sake of proving their authority.
I don't blame us, its the way we are brought up and I don't even blame our up bringing because its the way opportunities are in our country. But India is shining, we are a developing country which is really developing (atleast some parts of it) from the past few years. Our generation is better from the previous one and I hope we improve further with the coming one.
I also hope that I come back to my nation with an improved attitude.
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