What is it about Government Offices and lazy employees?

I have been to so many government offices in at least 4 countries and one thing common in all of them is laziness!

Is there any rule, which says, if you become a government employee, you have the right to become lazy and do whatever you want at work?

Today I was at a government office in Chicago on a small work. The actual time to complete the job, 5 minutes. The time I lost waiting for the job to get done, Priceless (3 Hrs). It was at such a snails pace, you can never imagine! One part gets done, talk with your colleague, go to the restroom, have a snack, attend you phone, then continue you work, and so on. It’s a robbery going on in all these government offices at the taxpayer’s expense. These labor rules should not protect the lazy people!

In contrast, I went to meet a few friends who work on an hourly basis in a factory, which makes credit cards. Owned by an Indian, employs I am told around 2000-3000 Indians who are fresh off the boat, working at minimum wages.

This guys forces the employees to take sick and vacation days, whenever there is no work. Forces the people to work 20 hrs a day when there is work. No regular timings. The timings are given the same day or the day before. SO, now the employees cannot even take on a second job, because of irregular timings and make like $400 buck overall for a whole F****** month! What is this?

Is this legal?????
Can you exploit your employees like that?
Is there any way out for these 3000 people? They should be allowed to have a better opportunity. This is not the way America should be run!!

Long time, I know.

Whats has been happening these past 2 months?

I was in California working on a small gig. It was a good trip. Enjoyed it a lot, but also am suffering for it.

Have a lot of friends there. So, had a lot of food. Though most of the time I was at Teki’s house, harassing them to feed me on and on. They must now be heaving a big sigh, now that I am gone. :)

Also, the Indian and Pakistani restaurants there are way too many. Tried out all the restaurants in the Bay Area. And the winner is Shaan Restaurant on Lawrence and Stevens Creek Blvd???

I did try out the other good ones like Kabab and Curry in San Jose , Pakhwan’s in Fremont, Shalimar in Fremont, and so on. But believe me the food at Shaan was the best.

Had some good fun there. Aquired some good songs from Pawel and yes! Thanx to Kanna Babu. That guy is a treasure trove for songs.

Finally met Madhukar after hearing about him for so many years. Good guy.

Went out to San Diego a couple of times, and yes, also went to Tijuana. That place is like heaven. So cheap and so good! You would not believe it, until you have seen it. I somehow feel closer to home when I am there.

Life has been pretty good lately.

Have been communicating via with a girl named in Hyderabad. Originally from Mumbai, but right now working in Hyderabad. You would not believe it, but she is so alike me. The first girl I have ever talked to, who watches moves of all kinds and languages, sucker for old songs (though she is a fan of Kishore da, rather than Rafi Saab), likes historical places, likes reading, talks good, and so on and so forth. Her profile does sound true, she seems to be awesome! Well one more good friend added to the list.


I talked to Pawel and asked for some suggestions about my course of action in life. :) Now he took me on one of his Berkley walks (which by the way is beautiful) and we had a good talk.
Then I heed his advice and lo and behold! Everything goes well!

Ok, back to California news.

Now I really am stupid. Bad planning and no structure.

I took Teki, Geeta and Abhi out on 3-4 trips.

Gilroy and Santa Cruz went well.

Drove them to San Fransisco downtown and crazy me, was not sure where I was going. Took them round and round, showing them nothing useful.

The next and more painful one was to Marin County.
To put it simply, Got lost in hell.
So sad. Poor Abhi was struggling so much, he vomited his food and we had to turn back without going to the light house (which was the original plan).

Geeta and Teki were most probably pissed off. But being good people, did not say a word.

Thanx to them had a lot of great food during my visit there.