It’s Friday morning here, the sounds of men banging hammers against concrete have been going for well over an hour now. They say in New York, or is it London, that you are never more that 10 feet away from a rat, well here in India the equivalent is that you are never out of [...]
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Transitions – a new beginning
Posted in Call Center, Delhi, Gurgaon, India, travel, work on 7 December, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Papa CJ on Call Centres
Posted in Call Center, Delhi, India, work on 21 October, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Best Line: “We aren’t so different. You waste too much of your time talking to somebody you think is an idiot at the other end of a Call Centre telephone call…so do we.”
Deepa Mehta wrote and directed a series of films called “Earth”, “Fire” and “Water”. Tonight we watched the last one, Water, a film that was so controversial here in India that violent protests forced her to scrap her plans to film in here and the production was moved to Sri Lanka. The story is about [...]
Our Punjabi Air Conditioning Maintenance Man
Posted in India, work on 30 August, 2007 | 2 Comments »
(By Mrs. WMG)
For months my colleagues have been complaining to each other about the air conditioner in our office. There are eight of us sharing the office, and according to them the room is always too cold when the A/C is on. I’m pretty comfortable, because I sit neither under it nor in its [...]
8 amazing things I saw on the way to work today
Posted in India, driving, wonder, work on 26 June, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A recurring theme on this blog is our experiences peering from the windows of our car. It’s not that we don’t get out and walk around at all, but the fact is, in the car we pass by a lot of places and things that we probably won’t see on our walks between our [...]
