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Hi guys
Later this month I may be going on a business trip to India. I am frankly filled with a lot of dread over this one. Originally I was supposed to take this trip to train a new outsourcing vender, but I showed through teleconferencing that these folks could be easily trained for the needed tasks in question. After all I work for a global corporation with massive tech resources, why not put them to proper use? The training program I created was a success and the new vender has been up and running for two weeks without incident.
I thought I had dodged one so to speak. Now I am being told they want me to go as a part of “PR” (public relations) because the team their needed to meet me face to face. So they decided to drag the guy in the office with Avoidant Personality Disorder and Social Anxiety along on this venture, me. So I have to go to India and pretend to be charismatic, charming, and intelligent (I am none of those things) to help build a relationship.
I have nothing against India, it is a beautiful country packed with bright souls, but I would rather see the place on MY TIME, not theirs. When I can actually explore and deep dive into different regions and most of all control my personal interactions while I am there. Instead I am going to be packed on to a plane with a VP and DIR that will not consider me worth bothering to talk to at all. Then I have to meet people that will not remember my name five minutes later. I do not like this at all.
Anyway since you are my friends I was hoping I could confide in you.
Thanks for reading/listening.
T
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