Ethics in business timings
Last week I was in Colombo to attend to couple of things,
staying at my apartment at Habarakada, Homagama. Since making Habarakada my Colombo abode when I come to Colombo
like every fortnight I have come to love the place , probably because
1.It has many rural shady roads for walking without being
disturbed by tuk tuks all the time
2.Being from rural
area originally I enjoy living in a rural setting with variety of trees to look
and wonder what tree this would be whilst walking
3.The swimming pool and gym in my housing scheme
4.Silence , rather the absence of noise , which allows me to
listen to gods talking ( https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5060024932032172786#editor/target=post;postID=2470456580885818939;onPublishedMenu=template;onClosedMenu=template;postNum=8;src=postname
)
5.The plants grow much faster and healthy in my backyard
here than in Kandy
Anyway I didn’t start to write this to extol and eulogize present
Habarakada which is a far cry from infamous moonshine area we
have heard about half a generation back. I started to write this to lament, the state of
conducting business in sri lanka with particular focus on keeping times and
informing customers regarding the opening hours of that particular business.
Having woken up early despite the
day being a Saturday I went out for a five KM walk and returned to do a brief workout
of about 30 minutes, in the gymnasium. I thought I must reward myself for this
achievement and decided to take a shave and get a head massage at a salon,
unlike a usual day when I shave though I loath to do it .
When I went to the salon the barber was not present at the salon
although the salon was open, I asked a guy talking to somebody on the pavement
from the salon about the barber and I was told that he must be around and I
should wait. I waited for about 15 minutes but there was no sign of the elusive
barber.
I went out to go to another salon
and walked to the junction and decided to take my chance on my right turn and walked for about 300 Meters. There were
two salons, one a comparatively well decorated large salon and the other a
usual rural type salon. But unfortunately both were closed notwithstanding the
fact that salons get best business on weekends, that too in the forenoon.
I came back to the first salon meekly because if the barber has seen me
wondering around looking for another salon he would laugh, or even annoyed with
me. But I was in for more bad luck that
day. When I came in there were two customers in waiting and barber was at work on
another.
So it was more of a day of punishment that a day of reward as I was hoping
in the morning. Similarly next day in the evening I saw a sign board in front
of a veterinarian in the same area. It says VET CLINIC that’s all. No timings
and gate is closed. so you are expected to bring your sick dog and wait outside
the gate until doctor decides to show up.
Saloons and garages are equal to clinics... No regularity.
ReplyDeleteyes like everywhere else here , no respect for others time
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