>>12616769Yes
It's a weird cultural thing, particularly with the chinks, where creativity and independent thought seem to be heavily discouraged. There's a fear and reluctance about striking out on your own because that means if something goes wrong or doesn't work out, all the blame gets shifted on to you and you'll be the focus of criticism, rather than everyone doing the sensible thing and saying 'oh well that didn't work, why did it fail and how can we improve it?'
I remember my first real job was in tech support for a global company that supplied various types of business software (mail and web filtering, FOIP, archiving, etc.). I was based in the Asia Pacific division.
Australians and Kiwis were great to deal with because you could send their technicians a set of instructions to fix a problem, and if they encountered any problems or hiccups they could usually work around it and get to the end. They could use their creativity and intuition to implement fixes even when unexpected obstacles appeared.
Asian and Indian technicians were a pain in the fucking arse. Instructions that you'd send to them had to be written in explicit detail while at the same time not being over complicated (because to be fair to them, some of them didn't have the best English skills). In all my time working that job I didn't encounter a single one of the fuckers who could think for themselves. An error might come up that was as stupidly simple as 'Process X.exe must be ended before running executable Y.exe!' and the stupid bastards would ALWAYS ask me what they should do.
I can understand why they did that, to some extent. If they display any sort of initiative to try and fix it themselves and it still didn't work, they'd get the blame. It was safer for their job security if they play the idiot and put the blame on me for it not working.
Imagine entire cultures and nations that run on that sort of mentality of risk-avoidance and blame-shifting.
