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Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- velho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I will narrate an incident to illustrate the > difference in attitude of Goan small businesses( > who think you are doing them a favour by giving > them work) and the same ones in the rest of the > country. > and > > I must say he was so dynamic, polite and courteous > that alot our company business is now routed to > him. Whereas the goan technician remains the only > person I have ever kicked in the rear (my rubber > soled boots saved his life!). > Mario observes: > Sunith, Did you really mean "(who think you are doing them a favour by giving them work)" because you ARE doing them a favor by giving them work, or "(who think they are doing YOU a favor by doing your work)"??? > Anyway, this is a more sophisticated business example of the Goan service attitude than Vivian's example of hiring day labor in Porvorim, and my builder friend's experience in hiring artisans and masons, etc. However, the message is the same. They were all unable to get their work done with Goan workers, even though they all went out of their way to look for them and hire them. Who in their right mind would hire a non-Goan if Goans with the proper skills, training, and COMPETITIVE ATTITUDE were available whom they could communicate with better. > Those advocates for Goan workers who labor under the facile assumption that the way to get them better wages and benefits is simply to somehow BLOCK non-Goans from Goa, then "mandate" higher wages and benefits and "obligate" businesses to pay, need to take heed. In the post-Nehru period of growing liberalization, try telling Sunith's company whom they should hire and for how much. > The US has made a science out of using the skills and drive and personal ambitions of once "foreign" workers and immigrants to benefit both sides. Some are allowed in temporarily and selectively, millions as immigrants. The US can do so because they are a sovereign country. The point is that they APPRECIATE what "foreigners" do for the country, and it keeps a competitive fire lit under those already here. Better yet, a substantial amount of money filters back to the new citizen's country of origin. If you don't believe me, ask Vivek Menezes or Vivian DeSouza. > The classic example is the large number of "American" Nobel Prize winners that were not born in America. The same applies in other less lofty segments of the US economy, from hotel and convenience store owners, to IT engineers. The world-class US university system and the equally world-class US health care system would COLLAPSE without just our INDIANS. > How would Goa, an Indian state, impede Indian non-Goan workers and technicians from Goa, when businesses need their services and qualified Goans are unavailable to do the job, either qualified by skill or by what they want to be paid? > The message in my never humble opinion is for the advocates to focus on the most mundane issues first, rather that try to apply King Canute's failed experiment to the labor market. This is not a short-term process. It has to start at the educational level where one learns that to get ahead one needs a certain COMPETITIVE ATTITUDE. For older workers remedial seminars and training sessions, speeches and articles to impress upon them that they will only be employed and stay employed in competition with non-Goans by being the best that thay can be in whatever they do, from cooks and waiters, to artisans and technicians to engineers and other professionals, and then be willing to do it at the prevailing wage rates. Workers and advocates don't determine these, employers do. > If they need a higher income, it's not going to come from advocates, near and far, demanding that businesses pay more, but by learning how to do jobs that are available that employers are willing to pay more for, and to show that you can do it better than anyone else. > If you are a Goan electrician that knows how to fix gensets, call Sunith's company and convince them that you will not turn their gensets into IED's. Hard to believe. Only ONE company in Vasco that services gensets in a state that survives on gensets. > If you only house wiring and installation, learn how to fix gensets, then call Sunith. Sunith's company has little incentive to call Kolhapur if you can do the job locally, but it's going to be harder now because they got burned by the one company in Vasco. > With the proper attitude, the proper education and vocational or professional training falls more easily into place. Without it, Sunith and his colleagues will have to continue to make phone calls to Kolhapur, my builder friend will continue to quickly run out of Goans for his building projects, and Vivian will have to continue to hire non-Goans at premium prices and transport them to and from Porvorim to get his work done. > In conclusion, two slogans from my refrigerator door that have been there for decades in order to brainwash my own three kids to alert and orient them to this most competitive of countries: > 1. A POSITIVE ATTITUDE IS YOUR MOST PRICELESS POSSESSION. > 2. YOUR ATTITUDE DETERMINES YOUR ALTITUDE. > All three absorbed it. So can anyone else. > _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org