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A fortuneteller, and his fortune-telling cow |
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| Astrology and High Finance: Oct. 18th |
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| Interviewing for HR and finance folks - Quotes of the day - Sue asked an
AA candidate (a 22-year-old lady with a pleasant smile named Bala) what she does for fun.
Her reply — "Chanting". A finance person was asked if he would be willing
to travel, and his reply was that he had a mole on his left foot. Upon further questioning
it was revealed to us non-natives that his astrologer had told him that the mole would
mean that he would travel a lot. |
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| Safety in the Workplace: Oct. 19th |
| S. our HR person with no clue asked a secretarial candidate only one
question during the interview — "Now how important is safety to you in the
workplace". |
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| Sue’s story about getting one of our lost pieces of luggage (now in
Customs in Bangalore airport). "We started in Room number 6, then on to room number
2, and a lady asked me for 15 rupees, with no receipt - ie. a bribe from a white woman.
After the 8th person, I lost track of how the people and the rooms. At least 25
people were involved. It took 2 and a half hours, and I had to pay customs for retrieving
my luggage that British Airways lost." |
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| Desktop Publishing: Oct. 20th |
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| I took Pam on a misconceived adventure to Bangalore’s upscale
shopping district, Commercial St. In her words, traffic was like a Chinese puzzle, you
couldn’t move forwards or backwards, just sideways. We saw a desktop publishing shop,
which was a bunch of guys with a screw press. In the front was a guy sewing a book, by
hand, with a 3" needle and twine. I asked Pam if we could sell him a laser-writer.
She looked at me with disbelief and asked, "what the hell are we doing here?" |
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