HUSBANDS AND WIVES

 

 

I was interviewing, here in Bangalore,candidates for the position of my assistant and had this one lady in my office that I really liked the best — I liked everything about her, from her humble yet firm demeanour, to the fact that she speaks 5 languages (I have determined that I may lose my sanity if I don’t hire an assistant who speaks the local language here, Kanada). I told her my hours are 1pm to 9pm and she flatly told me that was impossible for her. She said, “My husband won’t let me work that late. I know it is different in your culture, but in India, a wife really has to do what her husband says. I have to make time to be with my husband and family. He won’t tolerate me being out that late.”

I told her she could start earlier and leave at 7 instead of 9 and she said OK but that was the ABSOLUTE latest and she would have to leave at 7 SHARP.

She wasn’t about to have any guff from me, her future employer.

I said OK…. I guess her husband is the boss of me too!