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Originally Posted by Hitch
Oh, and d) they are culturally inculcated to always say "yes," they know how to do something, when they don't. They don't think of it as lying; in India, it means "yes, I don't know now, but I will learn on this how to do this just perfectly to make you 100% happy." In the US, of course, if someone tells you that they know how to do something, you expect them to mean NOW, not when they're done experimenting on you.
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Hmmm, I thought there was a class in US business school on Saying Yes to Any Question (You Can Always Learn it Later). The assumption being these geniuses are so smart they can hit the ground running and learn as they go.
As someone who's worked in mortgage banking for over 28 years, I can promise you, they're usually not smart enough....