The Great Indian Clerk

Part comic, part tragic is Bongop’o'ndit’s encounter with Indian babudom

Then comes the clanger. A harried blue-shirt comes in saying he cannot seem to work the computer: the template file for our letter is on a CD and the CD isn’t starting and the ‘computer-guy’ has gone home! We are heartbrken - four hours of wait for this ? My wife volunteers to help  Turns out that the guy did not even know how to put in the CD correctly !!!! Anyhow, my wife opens up the file for him, volunteers further help, not out of sheer altruism, but out of the selfish knowledge that the work would get done faster. But the guy declines, and as expected we wait 45 minutes for a job that a 5-year old could do in a minute

Reminds of the great V.S.Naipaul who was once reduced to tears by Mumbai clerks..