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We the Indians....

My team and I, recently had the opportunity to interact with clients who happen to be French. It was to be an informal (with stress on informal)   meeting, over teleconference. The objective of the meeting was to " get to know each other ". So people, both on-site and offshore, were supposed to talk about themselves, their hobbies, talents etc etc.  Powerpoint slides were prepared by the offhsore team, amidst the tight schedule of work and stuff. Anyway, no one here cared to even write anything beyond 4-5 lines. If at all anyone wrote a lot, it was just about their academic excellence and the amount of work experience that person had - studied here, studied there, worked 5 years here, 4 years there and so on. I thought this presentation was supposed to be this way, and filled in two lines about what I studied and how much(or little) my work experience was. Ahh well... there were other more interesting thing on my mind than this stupid video conference. When the meeti...