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Feb 6th, 2008, 20:50
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| a pain in the asana  Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: the India inside my heart
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| Your personal assistant - in India Your personal assistant, half a world away "BANGALORE, India — When David Hui found himself stranded in the middle of nowhere on a broken-down Amtrak train on the East Coast, he called for help—to his personal assistant in India. Working over the Internet, the assistant figured out where Hui was, based on the last street signs Hui had seen from the train, then tracked down a rental car to come pick him up. In the end, the train started moving again before the car arrived, but Hui, 30, was no less impressed by the effort on his behalf from half a world away. "I've been surprised at how much personal ownership they take to make my tasks a success," said the Cambridge, Mass.-based management consultant, who for the past year and a half has been a client of Get Friday, a Bangalore personal and small-business services outsourcing company. "They go the extra mile for me." Make an appointment, find a locksmith, buy underwear... In the latest twist on globalization, it is now possible to hire a personal assistant—in India—to take care of just about anything you don't have time to do and that can be accomplished via phone or the Internet...." (CHICAGO TRIBUNE, DON'T THINK YOU HAVE TO REGISTER TO READ IT.) "People on the way to O'Hare [airport] shoot us requests on their Blackberries, asking us to check their flight status," said Avinash Samudrala, a St. Louis native who co-founded Ask Sunday last year. "It's pretty amazing if you think about it." Personally I find this ludicrous, but that's me. If these hot-shots can find the time to email India, they can easily check their own flight status on their Crack-berries. Mr. YG is a business exec who travels a lot for business and it is not beneath him to pick up the phone and call an airline himself.... different strokes, I guess.... 
__________________ MY INDIA, 2005-2010 "Once you have felt the Indian dust, you will never be free of it." (Rumer Godden, 1975) |
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Feb 6th, 2008, 21:25
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| Didn't You Use to Be Nick-H?  Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Chennai, India
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| Yes, but doing it yourself doesn't make a person fell important! |
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Feb 6th, 2008, 21:28
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| a pain in the asana Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: the India inside my heart
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| ha! true..... personally I would not trust a guy in a call center in india to buy my underwear! |
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Feb 6th, 2008, 21:33
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| Didn't You Use to Be Nick-H? Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Chennai, India
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| Had a bad experience with that already have you?   |
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Feb 6th, 2008, 21:34
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| a pain in the asana Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: the India inside my heart
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|    I would say something to that but it would not be a very "family oriented" comment..... |
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Feb 6th, 2008, 22:19
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| Didn't You Use to Be Nick-H? Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Chennai, India
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| I'm still laughing at your earlier post! |
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Feb 7th, 2008, 00:58
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| Guru  Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Hollywood
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| Apparently even McKinsey has set up shop in India to support their consultants with their internet research. The concept to assist the public with internet information is sound. But, the target market is probably older people-- those who may not be comfortable doing their own internet research. |
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Feb 7th, 2008, 01:02
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| a pain in the asana Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: the India inside my heart
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| "Another client, a frustrated U.S. diplomat in Pakistan, had the company track down someone who could explain to her Urdu-speaking maid how to properly feed the cat." |
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Feb 7th, 2008, 08:45
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| In charge, navel affairs  Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: styx
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| Solution: Get an urdu speaking cat
__________________ There are more planes in the ocean than ships in the sky-old navy saying |
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Feb 7th, 2008, 11:29
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| Didn't You Use to Be Nick-H? Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Chennai, India
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| Our new cat is multilingual  |
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Feb 8th, 2008, 13:47
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| disMember Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: india
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Feb 8th, 2008, 20:18
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| She-who-must-be-obeyed!  Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Jaisalmer presently Mussoorie
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| leading to cat aplexy! seriously, Yogagal, I'm with you on this one - what's the world coming to? Just ridiculous, p.a. by remote. How lazy can you get! Mmm - thinks to self, I do get Machadinha to put in my links here, and I now have Broadband... Would that be the same kind of thing do you think??
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Feb 8th, 2008, 21:23
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| Didn't You Use to Be Nick-H? Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Chennai, India
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| Definately! Time you got to know that little globe icon on your reply box! |
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Feb 9th, 2008, 08:59
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| She-who-must-be-obeyed! Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Jaisalmer presently Mussoorie
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| So that's what it's for! Thank you Nick for the hint - I shall try to use it from now on.. No p.a. for me!! |
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