Former US Merchant Marine captain John Konrad, the CEO of gCaptain, shared his experience of working in India and with Indians and said hardworking Indians or visa holders are not the problem. He said there is no doubt that Indians are hardworking but after spending some time in India, he realized why Indians are so hardworking -- because they don't want to return to India. Konrad said this is not culture but a cultural escape and if he were ever told that he had two options: working 18 hours a day or going back to the Bronx, he would have worked 18 hours a day.
But if he were given two options: to move back to the Brox or to go to India where he worked for two years, he would choose going back to the Bronx, he said.
Comparing the red tape between the US and India, Konrad said paperwork in the US feels like a cakewalk next to Indian bureaucracy.
Sharing his experience of working in oil and gas around the world, and in both the US and India, Konrad said getting permits to even do the simplest things in America in a nightmare but the nightmare is nothing in comparison to India.
And thus, he concluded that Indians, accustomed to such lengthy processes and paperwork, are better at navigating grinding.
