India's..Satisfaction Report

You know those employee satisfaction forms that you regularly have to fill out in whichever bureaucracy you work for? It's supposedly completely anonymous; so you lace it with all the emotions - commonly negative - and brutal honesty that you feel for the company's practices and your higher-ups.. The analogy might be slightly stretched, but that's what reading this "review" of life in India felt like :P

It's more like the feedback of mostly US consular officials (on their time in India) to other prospective .. applicants, and makes for some interesting reading, if silly, misinformed and at times embarrassing.. Some of them are so emotionally.. honest that you can sense the frustrations, excitement etc. etc. in the text.. Palpable is the word I suppose - Not sure if this is because they are writing about India, or because it's something that I could relate to - *shrug*. Either way, I thought that a slightly frivolous 1:13 a.m Monday morning post would round off the weekend quite nicely :D

-K

Edit: P.S This is in Chennai from last year, and the figures cited are rather crazy heh

Morale among expats? I don't know how it is outside the Consular Section, but I hear it is pretty good: after all, they don't have to do visas. It is bad in the Consular Section because we are simply overworked. Our NIV section is one of the six busiest globally, and we see by far the most H1B applicants of any post in the world. Many of these are highly complicated cases, and fraud is a serious problem. The work is stressful and demanding, due to the sheer and ever-increasing number of Indians who desire visas. Management is trying to make our lives more bearable, but the fact remains that we service more than 200 million Indians in our district, and they all want visas. There are currently ten JOs in the NIV section. You do the math.