First and foremost, before I begin, I just wanna say that I am NOT a racist but what I'm about to write has a little Indian flavor to it.

I work in the IT consulting line, and my job involves jumping from one client to another where I learn about their old legacy system and 'try' to implement a better system for them. My previous project was with a beverage company, CB. It was kind of a difficult project due to the fact that the whole project was overscoped(too many things to do in too little time) but fortunately for me I was only there for a month to help out another colleague before leaving for my current project. So I wasn't entirely surprised to hear that my colleague wants to quit halfway thru the project.

Needless to say, the company was furious. How are they gonna find someone to replace him now that the project is at its crucial moment?! The company director even threatened to blacklist my colleague - that he won't be able to get a job anywhere if he leaves. My colleague was adamant, but agrees to stay for an extra month, so that the company could send a replacement to take over. So the company sends someone over to take over. An 'experienced' consultant from India. Fine. Problem solved? Not quite.

I was browing through a forum on the internet yesterday. This forum is basically a medium for people in my line of work to discuss technical matters. And also for people to get tech support. Anyways, I was randomly reading through some of the discussions when I came across an interesting question posed by someone by the name K. Interesting to me because the question was not only very fundamental, it was also irrelevant, if not nonsensical. And K also confessed he knows shit.

But more interesting was that the question asked specifically refers to a system very similar to the one company CB is using. Its highly improbable that another company would be using the same system since the system was a fully customised one, so something smells very fishy here. I later found out that K is the replacement consultant from India. The one who's supposed to replace my colleague in that highly challenging and difficult project. And he knows shit.

Now, India is a country with plenty of excellent IT human resources. Every year India exports and outsources thousands of programmers and consultants and IT engineers to work in all over the world, including Malaysia. I've worked with two; one is very good, the other one average. But my friends and peers have horror stories to tell. Mostly stories on how incredible and impressive the resume that these Indian consultants have but they actually know shit. One even didn't know how to plug in the network cable to his laptop. And some screw up the system so bad their employers actually black list all employees from India. They lie their way around work until they get caught, and then gets sent home. The better ones will actually try to get help by reading help files or reading forums like Mr K here. As one friend put it "The good ones will go to US or UK to work coz they can get better pay there. The bad ones will come to Malaysia."

I know the situation is bad in their country. I know they are desperate to earn a living and to earn a good salary but please, please don't earn a living by lying and cheating your way around. I wonder if they think us Malaysians are a stewpid lot. That they could just come here with their doctored resume and just take on any jobs. That we Malaysians are too stewpid to notice that they're just plain cheats.

I need to reiterate that I'm not a racist. Heck, my best friend's an Indian(Malaysian). For those cheats, you must know that you're tarnishing the image of your country. This is NO way to earn a living. Get your act together.