India is a frustrating country to work in, there are so many hindrances to everyday life I amazed the country can function at all…
Take the example of an airport pass, in a normal country you just apply for a airport pass to be airside, they do a background check and give you a pass for a year…. but no not in India.
Here they take thousands of documents, do no background check apart from read your documents, and then they make a list of dates… for me the list of dates that is important to them… 1. Employment contract date , 2. Visa expiration and 3. Pilot license approval expiration date…..
Of course they wont issue a card for more than 3 months, why… don’t ask, I don’t know, nor do they…. but it does keep people in jobs by doing this. And should one of these documents above be expiring then that will further limit the date on your card, in my case my latest airport entry card is valid for just 11 days due to my employment contract date coming due.
Now whats weird is you sign your employment contract to get a visa, but you cannot work until you get a visa, so I see no significance to national security to the relevance of the employment contract as its just a piece of paper saying you have a job and how much you will get paid, its useless without the visa. Again… huh it make no sense!!
So you say, just get a new employment contract and submit it and then that date is now due next year… yes that would be how it would work inor how it should work… but now the company bureaucracy comes into play, as they cannot see why they have to renew your contract as it says on it this is a 1 year contract that remains in force and is automatically renewed annually. So they wont issue a new contract as they say the current one is valid……. ahhhhhh. I am told numerous times “How can we issue a new contract when this one is still in force?” … how stupid can people be really?? Its a piece of paper people, get on your computer, retype the date, hit print, sign it, stamp it (they normally love any excuse to use the rubber stamp) and lets get on with life!
But no, we come back to ” How can I do it ?” around in circles we go… To me it doesn’t matter as they will figure it out in 6 days, when I cant get into the airport to do the job they are paying me to do… then maybe they might get the idea . Until then I shake my head and laugh at them.
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