American CEO says Indians are good at unnecessary paperwork that Americans hate.
Former US Merchant Marine Captain John Conrad, CEO of gCaptain, shared his experience working in India and with Indians and said that hardworking Indians or visa holders are not the problem.
He said there was no doubt that Indians worked hard but after spending some time in India, he understood why Indians worked so hard – because they didn’t want to go back to India. Conrad said this is not culture but cultural escape, and if he had been told he had two choices: work 18 hours a day or return to the Bronx, he would have worked 18 hours a day.But he said that if he had two options: return to Brooks or go to India, where he worked for two years, he would choose to return to the Bronx.Comparing the red tape between the US and India, Conrad said paperwork in the US seems like a cakewalk next to Indian bureaucracy.Sharing his experience working in the oil and gas industry around the world, and in both the US and India, Conrad said that getting permits to do even the simplest things in America is a nightmare, but the nightmare is nothing compared to India.Thus, it was concluded that the Indians, who were accustomed to such processes and long papers, were better at handling milling.
Indians against Americans
“The average American thinks that navigating government websites and IRS forms is torture. Compared to India, it’s child’s play. Here’s the key: The more punishing the process, the more HR bullshit piles up at the top, and the greater the advantage for H-1B visa holders from India,” Conrad said.“Americans quit before spending eight hours working on bullshit paperwork and HR training. Indians fill out every form without batting an eyelid.”“When Americans face a bureaucratic death loop, we call HR or tech support (often a call center in India) and get angry. Indians exchange bills with each other and look for loopholes.”“The real problem is not the visa holders. It is that the system rewards them for making our bureaucracy worse, not better. Bureaucracy becomes an artificial trench, and the people who have mastered it have every incentive to deepen it.”Conrad’s conclusion was that Americans were not lazy or incompetent but unwilling to deal with tedious paperwork that meant nothing.“So, the next time an Amazon or Google executive claims they can’t find Americans capable of doing the job, ask the real question: Are Americans incapable of doing the actual work? Or are they unwilling to deal with paperwork that never needed to exist? Are Americans lazy or do we just not tolerate bullshit paperwork?” said the CEO.
