Anti-shopping and work culture

Female readers have been asking for some stories about shopping. And I partially promised to go shopping on Monday and/or on Tuesday. But... I didn't. Let me explain!

On Monday I had actually taken a bit more money with me. But then. It rained all day. And it was a bit miserable, all streets were flooded and had to jump over puddles here and there. So did I feel like shopping? No I didn't. (So when would I feel like shopping? Umh...) Went for a beer with Pyry.

On Tuesday (yesterday) I was also supposed to go shopping. But there came a new group of volunteers from Delhi on Tuesday (about 30 people) and four of them are staying for three nights in the same building as I am. So, I was kindly asked to escort them there after work. So no shopping then either! And they were still in some lessons upstairs when I got off from work. So went for a beer with Pyry and Tani. And managed to miss the new people and somehow they got a ride from someone else.

Today... Well, no idea. Maybe.

Found a tailor to cut my pants! Professional and very specialized.

I read from somewhere that Rajasthani (this state) people never apologize for anything. Before I hadn't paid much attention to this but now I it seems like it's actually true. Yesterday I spent 2,5 hours in an office with my boss Ninad and a representative from a company who's making one website for Idex. The website really hasn't been a success story - it's now late for a few weeks and it's still full of bugs/errors. And it's my job to take care of the case. It really seems that the company who is making the website doesn't care for their reputation and they give us total bullshit results.

Well, so we grilled the guy a bit. Found several requirements that he had already marked as 'done' but they turned out not to be done. And I had earlier made a long list of bugs that I had found and they had told me that those are now fixed but.. no, they weren't. In Finland, if you come to your client's office and they ask you why you promise things that you haven't done and why many stuff doesn't work, you would apologize and mention that you will try harder. This guy didn't even seem to be sorry.

So I guess it's something the locals do. Never apologize. Everything is just normal and nothing special going on. This is starting to piss me off a bit. And the funniest thing is that Ninad tells me that that specific company is a good one around here - he had been dealing with 2 other companies earlier and they were much much worse. I would love to see some of those companies if this one is a good one. And can't help thinking what it would be like to establish your own company here and do (or try to do) things in 'Western' way. That is, thorough and complete.

I just have to get used to this. Ninad also told me that he's been waiting for me to explode but I haven't done that yet. A few times I've gone to his office totally frustrated about that company and banging my head against the wall. But it seems this is only the beginning of a beautiful total madness. Looking forward to it!