LOST FAITH!
(Why I simply detest working with people from the Sub-Continent?)
People have often labelled me as a racist towards my own kind! I find that very amusing because I am the complete opposite! I love the culture that I was raised with & my religion ‘Islam’ is one of peace, harmony, understanding and last but not least ‘Love” for all of God or Allah (SWT)’s creations!
It is a fact that I run in the opposite direction when approached to represent a client in the Sub-Continent / MENA region! I avoid engaging in any form of dialog with my own kind, be it business or of a personal nature! I find that working and living without my own Desi’s in this world is something that is less painful and I can quite happily survive ‘without’ their interjections into my life!
Here are my reasons why I absolutely do NOT work with these people because I have over the past 31 years as a salesman only had ‘regret & suffering’!
TIME MANAGEMENT – There is a ‘regular’ time and then you have what is known as ‘Desi’ time where it is customary to show up fashionably late! Such are the norms where people simply refuse to manage their own time commitments yet expect everyone else to honor theirs.
EMOTIONS – Almost all decisions are from the hip or ‘emotional’ – if in a good mood, you’re in luck or expect to be blamed, shamed and humiliated for others mistakes and follies due to their own wrong doing! – In business there should be NO emotions, yet every facet, even the hiring and firing within a company is extremely emotional where I have seen good workforce terminated on silly whims with NO exit interviews and without any proper justifications!
HYPOCRISY – It is simply disgusting that people tell me they are short of funds, payments have not come in and at the same time post selfies on social-media in expensive, exotic destinations and fancy clothes or their latest material procurements such as exotic non-duty paid vehicles and mansions etc.
I KNOW A GUY – Unlike most of the world, where if you need something done you simply look it up on the internet and call the best and most economical solution provider. In this region ‘everyone’ has a plumber, electrician, mobile vendor or some cop in their pocket they pay money to do their nonsense. Business is given and bestowed upon someone that is ‘trustworthy’… until they are NOT! (which happens all the time) - Whatever happened to merit?
CORPORATE FUEDALISM – Since most of this region is all about
identification with might, your clients will refuse to pay you on time and will
most probably start haggling and re-negotiating what they owe you because, they
want you to bow down and literally beg for your honest hard-earned dues. Getting paid in this region is ridiculous
because people make it so painful to fulfill their contractual obligations because
mainly due to ego issues!
THE PERPETUAL HUSTLE – In these regions, very seldom will you find a ‘master of one’ because everyone is a skilled ‘jack of all trades’. They may embellish a fancy medical degree on their business cards but their business will be anything and everything under the sun from selling linen and crockery to even promoting a competitor due to a silent side hustle they have going on. – It is mentally exhausting to try and figure out where you stand professionally with such people!
THE BLAME GAME – Everyone wants to go to heaven, yet they
want others to die for their slice of the paradise pie. People refuse to take ownership of their
silly decisions and always blame someone, starting with the person that needs
to be financially compensated.
PRIDE OR ARROGANCE – In this part of the business world, many so called professionals thrive on hedonistic, narcissistic, obnoxious values they call pride but is always displayed as arrogance. Everyone in some sort of delusional power, thriving on bribes and whatnot expect that when they commit to pay you (not paid you yet) or if they have given you meagre pennies on the dollar – they own you! They pay you to advise them and work for their benefit BUT will hold you responsible for their own decisions and actions that make no sense at all! – Hey! They will or are paying you for your advice or services but will give you the advice under an illusion that they own your soul!
RELATIVE THEORY – If you take the middle-east and the subcontinent as a whole, then I think I have over a few Billion relatives in the form of convenient cousins, aunts or uncles. Everyone is your distant relative when needing something from you. OR if you are a competitor or just in the business world minding your own business, then people will most definitely identify themselves with someone notorious, politically inclined or extremely powerful someone as a very close relative to display their own supposed Demi-God status when you ask for your salary or paycheck.
FREE DISCOUNTS – Most of these delusional people do NOT have a grip on reality, that it costs money to operate a business and always whine and cry that they do not have any money to ‘invest’ yet want the heavens to rain down good fortune at others expenses. They do NOT value any form of normal pricing and can even be seen at fixed price stores using every emotional trick to get some form of a discount! - By the ay almost all of these free-loaders will mistake your kindness for weakness and emotionally try to manipulate you because… they themselves are miserable and stuck in a rat trap of dishonesty to themselves.
DEFAULTING CREDIT – It is ridiculous how these people have lived by a culture where they feel it is perfectly all right to keep making promises and refusing to clear their dues on time. A typical 30 day period contractually stated to pay in the corporate world always turns into a haggling situation that ends up and stretches to 11 months based upon senseless dialog that only has one intent – ‘to renegotiate or Not pay you your dues… on time!’
SHORTCUT TO HEAVEN – It is so weird how people have this culture instilled within them to bribe and pay to get ahead. Nothing happens on merit! They keep illegal workforce, steal pennies from the exchequer BUT pay millions in the form of bribes for protection. Sadly, once in such a tumble they are trapped within a false illusion that such parasites will ever let them go. Such a professional heaven is surely a delusional mentality! If people believed that going by the book and sticking to the law would help them – then, maybe the present would be different for them, what it is now!
EXCUSES AND GRAVEYARDS – When it comes to paying someone OR if you are working for someone, then you know how to lie so well that you believe it! – I have worked with people and for people who have told me everything from their aunt is pregnant to someone is in the hospital and oh yes! Even the white Caucasian brand name owners they work for question – ‘How many grandparents / aunts / parents / siblings or children will – be buried, have a baby, or a terrible accident or something despicable happen to them – only this month alone!’ - Mostly the only resolve for these employees is time off with advance payment from the company or employer - It’s hilarious and actually now painfully funny how people from these regions give you the weirdest emotional excuses or reasons to get their way that simply shuts the other person up!
TAKEN FOR GRANTED – This one really gets to me! People mistake kindness and gratitude as a sign of weakness, they take friendship as a form of emotional weapon they can wield to manipulate another person for any senseless reason and they feel due to their own issues – they deserve better – even though they have immense distrust over any and every one they want everyone to state their piety and trust them? They will expect you to pay full price for everything yet will do the opposite when it is their turn.
BROKE BUT RICH AND REALLY NOT WEALTHY – Everyone displays extreme wealth in the form of expensive vehicles, armed escorts and fancy clothing. In reality – the fancy vehicles are leased, the armed escorts, drivers and staff have not been paid for months and the me-too tailor is chasing after his money for the good knock off supposed brand name suit they are wearing. Oh yes! That sexy 8 cylinder vehicle runs on LPG or some low grade fuel because they simply refuse to pay the cost of premium petrol or cannot afford to!
You do NOT have to concur with my thoughts! These are my own experiences over 31 years as a professional salesman, I have heard it all! I have seen it all, and that is why I chose to walk away from working with such a ridiculous professional culture.
I work to be paid on time and I expect that because I am professional in my dealings and demeanor, I will receive the same respect professional and financially. Sadly this has never happened and each and every time I have tried to help someone from this culture – it has been an extremely unpleasant outcome for me in many ways due to no fault of mine because if you use common sense - 'it takes two hands to clap'!
The courts only run-on facts and NOT emotions! – Sadly, this culture does NOT realize that if they simply worked on logic, most of the courts would shut down and lawyers would have to find new vocations!
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