after 4 weeks of Korean food, decided to cook myself, in the kitchenette available. went to buy grocery for a week in Wall Mart type Korean store, In store there was a lady ( approximately 50 yrs) with lots of nice small package in a tray,. she threw one of the package in my trolley, I though it was for free, may be some korean advertise etc etc, didn't care. Forgot about it when I was in counter. b

Back in room, I opened the package, it was a flag of local football team, she was suppose to sell to locals,  then I checked the receipts, it costed me 3 dollars.

 

South Korea

 

After five weeks of Korean food in local Korean cafeteria, on our last day we ( Nepali, Russian and Newzealander) decided to have american food (steak, fries/salad), informed our intention to liaison officer of local company All our food was paid by the local company. He got angry with us and indirectly tried to force us to eat in a local restaurant. we were surprised to see such reaction from him ( he was not supposed to do that). he declined to accompany us to an expensive restaurant serving steak, thinking that will force us to eat in local restaurant. We went to eat steak, he didn't follow us (he was supposed to).later we faxed the bill to the company, they paid us in full. the difference in amount? local restaurant=60$ for 4 ppl, restaurant serving steak, approximately 160$ ( for 100$ Korean liaison officer  acted like that.)

 

United states

Dinner in average american restaurant, 10 from europe/asia, 2 from  us) It was groups first visit to US and was second day dinner. for a group of 10, dinner bill was of 400$ (including drinks) we asked about the tips, americans told us about 20%, so we paid 80$ tips, later we found that service charge was already included in the bill.

 

United states,

Had 3 hrs left to airport, so to pass time visited local Mall ( me and US liaison) decide to have dinner in food court of the MALL, a lady came and asked us to help for the education of the kids in Mongolia, she said she was collecting fund on behalf of such and such organization, showed some paper, she said she was immigrant from Mongolia). I asked her, If you are from Mongolia, what is its capital city? she couldn't answer, and left.she was asking 10$.

 

United states

 

after 3 days of tough work, last day we finished our job at 11:30 pm , went to some restaurant for dinner, by the time we reached our hotel it was 1 am just to find out that my suitcase was broken, we stayed in Embassy suit. 

 

United states

Our company policy was such that whenever we visit other country for work, everything ( hotel, food, travel etc is provided by host country.usually host country arranges hotel, air and local travel. for food ( breakfast, Lunch, dinner) they give allowance. Usually in US many hotels provide free breakfast. in one stance we were group of 6 ppl, including one american. our hotel provided free breakfast, but we claimed full allowance for food.

 US guy objected, saying  that breakfast was provided, so we can claim only for lunch and dinner. we didn't agree because our contract says it is the responsibility of the  host party to provide food. Our stance was food provided by third party does not count. finally US host agreed that they didn't provide breakfast and reimbursed us. allowance for breakfast was 25$/day/person. for 6 weeks it comes 1050$ per person for breakfast.

 

UK, 

very clever, they told company that they will reimburse us 100% on everything they will arrange. but we have to pay. we said ok, Uk company paid us loads of money. but from Hethrow airport  they arranged such expensive transport for us that ,the maximum agreeable amount the company paid for  transport was barely enough for the limousine they arranged  for us. Similar was the situation in Hotel

 

Russia

 

Although our Russian Lision officer could understand and speak English, our company policy was that we speak through translator for official business. And for translator our company used to pay, not Russians, cost for translator was 300$/day, there were rumors that Russian hire some of their relatives and  make money out of it. 

 

We arrived in Moscow at about 11 am from Sochi ( place for winter Olympic 2014). our flight from Moscow was at 3 pm, so not that much time left, they took us to 1984 Moscow Olympic village restaurant for lunch. It was nice restaurant.  we were group of 6, plus Russian translator and liason Officer. It was winter time so we all were wearing heavy jacket. Near  the restaurant counter there was a place for coats. The Russian translator said  "let us undress here"  actually she wanted to say "let us take off our coats here".such were translators hired by Russian, and paid by us (300$ per day)

 

US

 

In September, two days before data for jobs were supposed to released DOW jumped almost 200 points without any news. when jobs data was released it was positive , it was not that difficult to understand that data was leaked  to certain sector.

 

 

and, why US was spying leaders of 35 countries, for economy guys, money matters. As ex president Clinton once said, " its economy stupid"

I have many more experience where I was treated differently in US, Europe, Japan. People do discrimintae. both positive and negative,.

some ppl do it sugary way some do it crude way

 

Yes, Nepalese also do the same but our method is crude and the difference between methods is

 

We are busy at this time, could you wait outside please, when we are free we will call you.

 

and 

 

येह यहाँ हुल नगर, बाहिर बस, समय भए पछि बोलाई हाल्छु नि, बाहिर जा अहिले 

 

meaning is same, method is different.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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