who is listening

I thought for a while what name shoud I give to this post.  I may be here venting out my frustrations.  Kabhi Kabhi koi nahi milta hai apni dard sunneke liye.

I encounterd many unpleasant situations in the past few days.  I faced them and can’t say to the best of my abilities. 

last month I moved from CA to DC. I was eagerly waiting for paycheck. Finally when it arrived, I noticed that considerable amount was deducted as tax than prior months.  I got very upset. I found that my points in ADP system for DC was showing as zero.  I wonder why no body informed me abt this.  I qualify as Non Resident as my stay is less than 183 days..it means don’t have to pay taxes. Even If I fill D-4 form I still scored 6 points which means still less burden. So I paid more taxes than required due to pure negligent attitude of HR folks.  I wrote an email with CC to their top boss abt why they did not ask me to complete necessary formalities for payroll at time of relocation.  Received a reply from HR rep that  they are not responsible for tax management and its employee’s look out.  They don’t advise any thing etc.  I said fine, but it’s their duty to inform me abt the change in procedures.  She says point noted.  The guys in CC just have fun following mail chain and nobody takes any serious responsibility.

I had my eticket booked from India.  The starting point needs to be changed from LA to DC for return journey.  So I had requested the travel help desk guy from India. The gentle man says please contact local HR and get a fresh ticket. That’s it. He does not tell me what happens to old ticket and why he can not do it from India. Again I write mail to him with CC to people who just act as witnesses. Finally I had to pick up the phone and talked with him regarding his difficulty.  He says he could not do so from India and replied my mail that I never received. Finally I talked with the airline and got it done using my corporate amex card.  

Our house owner in India was after us to vacate the house. Due to the boom in Pune they want to cash in on the opportunity.  Before coming here I took the permission from them to extend upto September and the old lady agreed. It is their son’s house. The couple left for Kerala. Now they have this wayward son-in-law with fast Kerala asccent and thinks he is the owner of the property. I don’t care if thinks. But he started harassing my wife to vacate now in August. When the argument was on, my wife finally got irritated and told him that she had to lodge police complaint. This has become the topic in society dominated by Keralites. Everybody started showing in sympathy. It happend so that there is another apartment vacant in the same society. Since the house was near to schools and me being away my wife had no chocie except to go for this house.

The person in charge demanded a 10K rent for 2bhk having waste furniture inside. We had to take it.  The shame is,  the son-in-law does not return the deposit we paid.  We have to wait for the old couple to return. We even told them we are ready to pay the rent they want.  But this business man  has to steal the show.  I guess he is offered a commission by the new tenants.  We stayed for nearly 3 years. As my children scribbled on the walls, We did not even ask for re-painting.  In hyderabad, I painted the house when tenant’s son was getting married and after 9 months their grand son painted the walls. I din’t take a single penny from them. 

So hope all ends well when I go back…