Report on Poverty in India: 271 million lifted up in 10 years

[zigbee]

Interesting...but the piece doesn't say HOW they did it.

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/i...397694.ece

[cincydawg]

Overall economic growth, and of course poverty there is defined quite differently than here.

In the US, the poverty line is a bit over $15 K for an individual for income. You'd be solidly middle class in India with that.

[Alabuckeye]

Gotta give Trump a ton of credit! MIGA

[TcSoup]

They are enamored with Gold in India . That has to have something to do with some of it.

That and the 5m 7/11s that opened there.

[TRT25_]

Interesting...but the piece doesn't say HOW they did it.

Simple- they all became IRS agents / Microsoft support engineers!

[cincydawg]

Back in the day, I had three people in India doing work for me. I had a tough time keeping them busy. They did the "TPS Report" for me each week which I'd repackage and send out to about 130 people (that was my main job). They were always nervous about being canned, but I think we only paid like $50 K a year for them, they were pretty highly trained, one had a PhD. They seemed to be nice folks, I only interacted by email and a couple times by phone.

I would have them generate various reports which I'd stick in some binder no one ever read. It did cover me if anyone asked what some competitor was doing in Field X.

It's still astonishing to me that my boss replaced me with TWO PEOPLE, one of them he even promoted to be at my level. I heard later that one disappeared and was doing nothing, but there really was nothing for him to do.

[Alabuckeye]

Cincy, we worked extensively with Indian resources in Bangalore and Mumbai. My experience was that they were good people, always looking to jump from company to company for 'better opportunities(no different than us really), but solid in their work. The one thing in my experience was that in my field, Financial Services, they were quite good at tasks that were well defined and took you from point A to point B to point C. They faltered badly if that definition broke down and they had to 'think on their feet or think outside the box'.... did you find that or not?

[cincydawg]

These folks were so eager to please I don't know, I never gave them any projects that require much thought. They did change people fairly often.

Part of my job was in effect competitive intelligence, but the managers were not really interested in anything anyway, so whatever I generated was fine so long as it was a colorful Powerpoint presentation. I once snuck into one review a comment about some work very similar to ours that a competitor was doing and the VP just smiled, she didn't even notice.

She was my boss' boss when I decided I had to leave my project because my boss was lying to her about our work, my work. There was zero point in going to her to try and explain anything, she was a vacuous cheerleader and clueless, she really was dumb. The other VP I supported was a black fellow, very serious and intense, but really not interested in my stuff for reasons I understand.

So, for 10 years, I basically just skated along.

My technical project eventually made it into a product, I suspect it has been a money loser. Had I stayed I probably would have benefited careerwise.

[Alabuckeye]

I found I reached a point where I realized I had to sell a part of myself to advance that I just didn't want to sell. So, I opted out. Glad I did too...

[cincydawg]

I had three kids, couldn't take them out of the county in effect, they were my responsibility, not me.

I was driving home and realized I was about to tear the steering wheel off the car and figured I needed to do something, so I found a sinecure.

For the first year or so, I really could not believe how vacuous the new job actually was. I kept thinking there was something I should be doing and wasn't.