We're through our second day in Bangalore and our first business day. We met our host, Amitabha, at BDC around 9am this morning. Overall, we delivered 4 training sessions. I also met briefly with a dev VP, which turned out to be a pre-meeting meeting.
There's really not a whole lot to speak about today. Everything went smoothly, we had fun counting colloquialisms spoken by each other during the training, and so on. At right is a picture of the launch banner for the AOL India portal. This launch was a major event, covered in the media with AOL President Ron Grant visiting. The headlines and photos reminded me of the stories one reads about General McCarthur in Japan after WWII.
We're still trying to figure out the head-rocking-side-to-side motion. It's not saying yes or no, per se, though it seems to indicate comprehension, and perhaps thinking about what's being said? I almost wondered if it's like the American shrug of the shoulders? Hard to tell. Chris calls it the bobblehead motion, which is kind of true. We have all sorts of theories, but nothing hard and fast.
Here on the left is a picture of the BDC cafeteria. It's on the roof! It's open to all AOL employees, which we thought was cool, until we asked Amitabha about it and he said that the tax codes changed and so now they all have money withheld from their salaries to pay for lunch. Apparently it's compulsory, at that. Interesting.
Otherwise, not much else to say from here. Oh, yeah, traffic is indeed crazier on weekdays!!! :)
