The city of many faces...
It is incredible how the environment changes in one city.
From a supermodern, perfectly tidy luxurious city center with skyscrapers and headquarters of the world's largest IT companies, you'll be rikous in the marginal parts where ironing irons full of coal are used in laundries, cows are strewn in the street, and the open spaces are full of waste of all kinds.
All Hindu temples now alternate with Muslim mosques. Local yoga schools and meditation are world-renowned. Eastern teachings and religions breathe at every step. Hindu people worship thousands of gods closely related to nature, yet nature conservation is mostly on the second track, and especially water resources are heavily polluted - in short, we can learn a lot from each other about different things.
The city lives from morning to night. Shoppers, street vendors and craftsmen offer their services every day from "ten to ten". Those who have not experienced the local mode of transport will not understand how the whole system can work. Everybody keeps on rolling, moving from the lane to the lane, not to slow down for a second, bikers hanging between the cars. For some of their maneuvers, Hollywood stuntmen would not be ashamed either.
My main task was to train 2 local technicians. After a week, rest of the LIKO-S India Team from the Czech Republic (Eliska and Tonda) flew to Bohemia, so I was a "boss" of the branch for a while.
Naturally, the tasks they had been running couldnt not stop. Especially the things needed for the start of production like security, all the equipment of the workmanship and the warehouse and the ordering of the material on the in-stacks. As a bonus, we had a big project, which we eventually managed to specify, to arrange the preparation of the building and to conclude the contract just before my departure home. Installation starts in the next few days!
From the Export Department, I am used to quickly adapt to customers from different countries, each country has its own specifics and everything needs to be approached a little differently, so adaptation to local culture has not been so complicated for me. Yet even such a small thing as paying a phone bill turned out to be quite complicated in the local system and it took us a lot of time. This is one of the adventures of starting a new branch in a completely new environment!
I look forward to the other challenges we will create!
Karel Hudec
R&D Technical specialist
