And yet plenty of our companies can’t wait to move IT jobs there to unqualified, but cheap of course, call center monkeys - probably many of the same ones squatting al fresco.
Let’s be honest - many of their countrymen who come to the States have some of these same (read: lower) standards of hygiene. And many of these new arrivals are buying up hotels and motels and applying this same standard of cleanliness which is to say no standard at all.
ANYTHING that costs money - A/C, water, soap, etc. will be rationed as if the war were on. These are some grasping, greedy buggers.
I booked a room at what was ostensibly a chain hotel owned by one of our Indian friends. It was an absolutely shocking experience...I opened the hotel door, saw the state of the room, turned on my heel and checked out. Of course, Srini at the front desk frowned and muttered something about a ‘minimum charge.’ I told him my credit card company would most assuredly take my side and that he could get stuffed.
It’s interesting that some prominent corporate franchises have been taking a close look at that for years. I know Southland Corp. — the parent company for 7-11 — got a lot of negative press some years ago when they announced that they were taking a close look at many of their Indian franchise owners.
I travel quite a bit. Many of the hotels are owned and run by Indians.
A few have been as you describe, but most are either run of the mill or above average.
The worst hotel I ever stayed at was run by “white Americans.”
“I booked a room at what was ostensibly a chain hotel owned by one of our Indian friends. It was an absolutely shocking experience...I opened the hotel door, saw the state of the room, turned on my heel and checked out. Of course, Srini at the front desk frowned and muttered something about a ‘minimum charge.’ I told him my credit card company would most assuredly take my side and that he could get stuffed.”
After an experience last year, I won’t book a room IN CANADA unless it is run by “Euro-Canadians”; using large chains is no protection against Third World nonsense. The place wasn’t dirty; they just advertized WiFi that was barely working (and told me it was my PC until I saw other guests, laptops in hand, confronting the manager), the ice machine “didn’t work” (but you could BUY ICE at the front desk), and they wouldn’t open the pool at the scheduled time until enough guests were badgering them.
Absolutely the cheapest dirtbags you could imagine; you expect more when you lay out money for a place. To top it all of, there was a large handwritten sign at the free continental breakfast (for which they were VERY slow to refill anything) warning that there would be a charge for any food thrown away. Americans better get used to this if they want anything that resembles our former way of life; we are importing India’s “merchant caste”, and they are shameless.
“Let’s be honest - many of their countrymen who come to the States have some of these same (read: lower) standards of hygiene. And many of these new arrivals are buying up hotels and motels and applying this same standard of cleanliness which is to say no standard at all. ANYTHING that costs money - A/C, water, soap, etc. will be rationed as if the war were on. These are some grasping, greedy buggers.”
Here in NJ they also run gas stations and of course convenience stores; in fact, they meld the two (converting mechain bays to a convenience store because the caste that runs the gas stations isn’t the same caste that would fix cars). Try using a bathroom in these places; I believe they are required by law (especially if you sell hot food), and yet they are always “out of order” (probably because the merchant caste shouldn’t be cleaning bathrooms either). All of the air pumps at these places cost $.75 to a $1 (I couldn’t imagine this when I was a kid riding a bike); the last American-owned gas station in a neighboring town got rid of their “free air” months ago.
Fundamental transformation...