Heh Heh. :) I understand.
I´m not sure of their origins or political preferences, I can only relate one incident:
Software firm in Argentina gets acquired by some Indian software factory... so the until-then local firm gets its general manager replaced by someone from India.
It´s all smiles and laughs until this man starts phoning project managers to their houses in the middle on the night (well, not really, say: 11:30pm ;) to inquire on the progress of every project. Not a one time occurence, but 2 or 3 times per week. So one project manager quits in disgust. Then two others.
I don´t know how stuff is done in India, but apparently for this particular manager it´s customary to phone project leaders in the middle of dinner, or as they´ve just hit the bed, then boss them around over the phone....
So, three project managers left the company, leaving the firm scrambling to find replacements, and projects delayed for weeks -causing more harm than if he had just respected work hours-.
My old man then encountered a long time friend who had a meeting with this man from India, now in charge of the local firm. The guy related his side of the events to my father´s friend. The Indian boss conclusion: "project leaders in Argentina do not like to work, are not commited to the project(s) or the company, like in India".
Go figure. Culture shock, perhaps. We latinos work to live, not the other way around. ;)
No, I can´t name the firm.
FC
PS: For the record, down here bosses don´t phone employees at their homes while dining to inquire about projects... unless it´s an emergency, the server went down and has to be reconnected, someone died, or the building is on fire... And since the IT sector is near full employment down here (thanks the the 2002 devaluation of our currency and the skyrocketing of the IT offshoring business* ),people working in programming are very picky -and pricky- about who they work for, so they leave at the first yell from an ill-tempered or too-demanding boss.
*Related sample reading about IT industry down here
http://www.bnamericas.com/news/technology/Globant_gets_US*13mn_capital_injection http://www.teracode.co.uk/history.html