Desi Train

Four weeks ago I receive a call from one of my ex Hyderabadi roommate.
He: “Dude, my cousin is out of work. Can you help him out?”
Me: “Sure, send him over” – I actually was looking for someone to fill up the vacancy in my department and what more could a good deed be than helping a fellow desi out. So “Desi-needs-job” lands in my office the next day. We do some chit chat. I warn him I’m a hard task master at work. Outside work, I’m pure fucking fun. Desi-needs-job grew up in the U.S. and lived close to work. So no visa requirements, no long traffic delays would be seen.

I kind of brushed aside the technical interview and he was on.
Now four weeks later, he tended his resignation at my big boss’s desk this morning and left. Vanished. No talk no conversation no good byes to me. Yes he did leave behind a list of “what a fucking asshole I am” on my boss’s desk. Thanks.
Question 1}
Why do people who get jobs based on contacts/recommendations, think they are the kings in the firm and behave like one?
Desi-needs-job hangs around more with other people, in their cubicles than actually doing the shit lying on his desk. I kind of sensed an air of over relaxed work mentality and I go what the fuck? Every time I moved into a new job it was time to prove myself again, work harder and get bigger, better results to establish my credentials.

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Question 2}
Why are people so fucking ultra sensitive towards scolding and reprimanding?
I’ve had more lunches with Desi-needs-job in the last 4 weeks than with anyone else in this firm in the last 3 years since I came in. And we also discussed getting together for clubbing on weekends.
But when it came to work, I had to scold him yesterday for silly mistakes, too much time spent on too minor problems, etc. etc.
Me: “So are we gonna go live on this Project this Thursday?”
D-needs-J: “Yeah, no problem”
Me: “Have you checked each and every issue we could come across that could be a problem on Thursday?
D-needs-J: “Yes I have, it’s gonna work out fine?”
Me: “Have you checked x?”
D-needs-J: “No”
Me: “Have you checked y?”
D-needs-J: “No”
Me: “Have you checked z?”
D-needs-J: “No”
Me: “How the hell are we gonna go live with the project if you have not checked x, y, z?”
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It was time to baby sit Desi-needs-Job and I tried my best to spoon feed stuff. 12 hours later he’s gone. Why? He couldn’t take my scolding for his shoddy job?
Question 3}
Why do you trash the person who helped you get the job
There was like 30 points which Desi-needs-job mentioned to my boss. 30 points which did not make him want to come to work. All 30 points related to he not getting along with me. And he left.
I’m kind of sad. Why would a person say he doesn’t get along with me when he lands up having lunch every other day with me and plans out weekend partying with me and the gang. Why say that? Why say last 4 weeks has been hell when 3 days ago he goes, he’s having the time of his life working for me.
Above all why trash a person’s position in the firm, the same person who helped you get a job.
So I’m spending most of the day talking to my bosses trying to extinguish the fire off my ass sparked off by Desi-needs-job.
Is this one of the sick desi types I had the pleasure of helping out, the type I should stay away from? It wouldn’t have mattered much if the person was of any other nationality. But with a desi, any desi, the bond feels much more stronger and hence it hurts harder when something like this happens in an alien country where you offered a helping hand to someone from back home. I guess it’s hurting because I felt like being stabbed by someone from my own house.
Lesson learnt. Staying away from helping any fellow desis from now on. But I’m bad. I’m sure I’ll be back on the same track in 2 days flat.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 19th, 2005 at 11:01 am
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