The Indian technical professional became a viral after sharing a light view of his first day at work in India after moving from Sweden. In the Instagram video, Vijay Vargiya emphasized the cultural and workplace he experienced when he returned home.
The video opens with his struggle for commuting, which once was 20 minutes walking in Sweden in an hour in India when his reserved cabin couldn’t show up. In the office, he compared security checks with the airport screening before he faced another challenge: connection to Wi-Fi. From friends to IT support and even admin and hr, Vargiya wittyly told that he had reflected them without success, all before lunch.
But not everything was frustrating. He appreciated the food in the office office and called Indian lunch “best” and exchanged his usual Swedish hot chocolate for a tea break with a friend, a ritual that seemed to be happy.
“There is a struggle to adapt to Indian working culture, but it’s also interesting. We’ll have to see what differences I face between European work culture and Indian,” he said in the video.
The post was triggered by interviews online about culture in the workplace, commuting challenges and gentle differences between professional life in Europe and India.
The user asked, “Why did you move back?”
Another user noted: “Is it necessary to criticize India so much?”
“Other criticism is absolutely justified, but WiFi !! I mean which company you are in BRO! I know it is a winch, but to be realistic. No company literally no IT company requires you to release WiFi,” wrote the third user.
“Now you can see the difference between India and Sweden,” the fourth user wrote.
“Each country has its own strengths and challenges. Comparison of Sweden and India is not fair, because India is almost 7 times larger in the area and has more than 130 times Sweden. Despite this, India has the second largest road (6.3 million km), modern metro systems in the first airports and first.
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