DISGRACEFUL INDIAN MANAGERS/SUPERIORS.
PART - II.
I have just returned from my vacation and during this period I noticed that many of my compatriots earlier working in Kuwait inspite of having palatial houses, lot of money and limousines are suffering from mental distress, cardiac problems and other sicknesses acquired in Kuwait while working under stress due to the mental and physical pressures put in by their managers. Most of them are the victims of the maltreatment of their Indian Managers. I feel Indian mission in Kuwait must keep a careful watch on the behaviour of top Indian Executives and Managers because many of them are on the spree to disgrace the fair image of India to protect their remunerations and positions. It is they who spoil the good image of my country in Kuwait. It is they who can create good or bad image of India and Indians in Kuwait and unfortunately they prefer doing the latter to protect their remunerations which really high and about which they can never dream of in India.
Many of the Indian Managers while landing in Kuwait first time came as ordinary employees but later on either thru their hard work or chance or fluke or by acting as pimps by supplying their wives and Whiskey bottles to their bosses rose to the position of Managers which carry lot of benefits. In order to maintain and retain these benefits, many of them do all the cruelties towards their subordinates. Otherwise, to become a Manager in Kuwait you need not necessarily become highly educated or highly smart in your profession. Many times donkeys make better Managers. A man who was pealing potatoes and cutting Onions at Shuwaikh Modern Restaurant in Kuwait finally in 1975 became my superior who did not know the difference between "is" and "are" when I first time started working in Kuwait.
The other thing our elders also told during those days was never to work under Goan superiors because he is a coward of first grade. For the sake of money and power he will do anything his boss tells him. If one carefully observes this point one can easily notice so many of our Goans earlier in Kuwait holding top positions were treating their subordinates as slaves. Some of them are retired and living in Goa now not as full fledged human beings but as cowards, hiding from public view because they are afraid of their lives since they did more harm for staff working under them than good when they could do good. They have no guts even to move freely in the open. I am sure people are aware of how one Mr. A. Furtado a big businessman in pre-invasion period of Kuwait, during the invasion of Kuwait was confined in Goa to his home only by those whom he harassed in Kuwait.
Another Goan Mr. F. Almeida from the Goan village Saligao while working as top executive in one big private company was treating staff under him as sub-human beings and at the time of recruitment even questioning the caste status of the Goan candidates. Mr. Almeida was a Goan Christian Brahmin and was very boastful of his high caste status. But he was such a shameless Brahmin that like a rejected Harijan he was polishing the shoes of his bosses to save him from his chair. Many of the so called Brahmins working in Kuwait are not genuine Brahmins, they are fake Brahmins and precisely they are so, they are leaving their Indian shores and working in Kuwait against all rules of their genuine Brahmin caste. Instead of performing their priestly duties as per the terms of their caste they are doing commercial jobs of harassing others to accumulate money and that too in a foreign country and yet they shamelessly call themselves Brahmins. The genuine Brahmins are not leaving their shores and coming to Kuwait to work as pimps. The caste Brahmin carry specific duties which the Brahmins in Kuwait are not performing and as such they cannot call themselves as Brahmins unless they are bastardised Brahmins. Every caste is classified as per its professions.
Regarding Christian Brahmins, I must tell here that for Christians to believe in caste system either as Brahmins or any other caste is like going against the principle of Christianity which preaches the principle of equality as propounded by Jesus Christ. Those Christians who carry the title of caste either high or low are committing a sacrilege against Christianity and as such they cannot be called as Christians. Caste system creates inequality in society while Christianity propagates equality. Good that for centuries India was colonised by Christian European powers that introduced Christian principle of equality in India otherwise the discriminatory Hindu system of castes would ruin India. The great Indian patriot Dr. Ambedkar was not a fool to renounce caste oriented Hinduism and embrace Bhuddism.The emancipation of low caste Hindus took better shape for their development only when they followed in millions the call of Dr. Ambedkar to renounce Hinduism and also when they embraced Christianity. The low caste Hindus by embracing Christianity in India attained greater social status which under the original caste based Hindu religion would never allow them.
Yet another Manager Mr. Fernandes from Colva was treating his staff working under him as slaves even denying them proper remuneration commensurate with their job output and many times telling his staff that whatever little salary he is prescribing them was big compared to what they would get in India. This bloody Fernandes was working as General Manager for pittance of salary compared to what he deserved like a beggar and what benefits such beggars will reccommend to their staff when they themselves are accepting beggars remunerations for them? A beggar will convert others into beggars only. This is the tragedy one will face while working under Indian Managers who base their remunerations and that of others working under them on the basis of living standard in India and not in Kuwait.
Still one more Goan, a top executive at KOC, a Christian Brahmin too from the same village as that of Almeida, Mr. Cordeiro by name, during those early days at KOC to satisfy his sadistic ego was advising his British superiors "not to give more facilities to Goan staff because in Goa they are accustomed to live miserably".
TO BE CONCLUDED.
A. Veronica Fernandes,
Kuwait.
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