Yesterday’s dinner was a nice event, although it took some time for people to relax and open up the conversation spontaneously. I did expect that and at least tried to do my best to keep the talk up. We surely weren’t short on topics, for they had a lot of things to see and we would have a lot to learn from them.

Unfortunately the latter one of these points was crystallized in a short conversation I had in Finnish with one of my colleagues. We were browsing the menu with The Engineer and Team Leader to find out which foods were suitable for their vegetarian diets and found a few alternatives they could try. My colleague changed to Finnish and suggested them to have the traditional rössypottu, which consists mostly of potatoes and blood pudding, obviously far from vegetarian food. I pointed this out and heard one of the stupidest replies I have ever encountered:

“We don’t have to tell them that, do we?”

This attitude of disrespect is one of the things I am trying to escape on my retreat towards the eastern countries. What the hell makes people here think that they know better?

Pisses me off to encounter that kind of idiocy.

Tags: colleagues from India, culture, food, respect, why I wanted a change