Thanks…
Thank you so much for printing my cry of anguish concerning the privations of being a sub-tenant of one of the largest and most prestigious property companies in Gulshan. I had hoped that renting one of their flats would have proved an asset, especially after 5 visits by me to their head office and one by my excellent landlady.
In the gap between my writing and your printing my letter, I am glad to say that the mystery of the absence of hot water in the wall shower above the bathroom-taps-and-hand-shower has been solved by one of their staff (obviously used to the standards) pointing out that, if one swung the handle in the opposite direction to that indicated, the hot water eventually arrived. Silly of me to assume that the direction would be the same as the handle just 2 feet below it.
I continue to marvel that those paying workmen do so before they have checked that the work has been done properly. I would have thought that it was a basic rule of life that those who pay bills have to be more intelligent than those who present them.
Some years ago, at a frightfully posh 'do', I met a delightful young foreigner who had just arrived to build the 'Westin'. He looked rather startled when I advised him to throw a bucket of water over each bathroom floor to check that the water went in the right direction before he paid for the nice tiles to go down.
Well, at least we know that the Pakshi Bridge is unlikely to fall down. The Consultant Engineer a noble Brit was up at 2.00am to check the quality of the cement going into the uprights.
But how long will it take for such precautions to become part of the basic routines in these parts? I suspect it will only happen when Top Managers do not consider such basic matters to be beneath their attention.
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