Comments on: the loneliest walla II: the bank guard http://ourdelhistruggle.com/2009/06/01/the-loneliest-walla-ii-the-bank-guard/ Two New Yorkers move to New Delhi. See what happens... Sun, 12 Feb 2012 04:50:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: vaibhav http://ourdelhistruggle.com/2009/06/01/the-loneliest-walla-ii-the-bank-guard/#comment-2318 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:08:10 +0000 http://ourdelhistruggle.com/?p=668#comment-2318 Siddharth has a point. What about the drivers of Rajdhani and Shatabdi Trains? Whole train is AC but his small cabin is not air conditioned!!

]]> By: Tina http://ourdelhistruggle.com/2009/06/01/the-loneliest-walla-ii-the-bank-guard/#comment-1508 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:07:55 +0000 http://ourdelhistruggle.com/?p=668#comment-1508 This is still better than starving and I’m sure that most of them are happy to be earning, being well fed and taking care of their family (so many of them could be happier than many people in the developed world).

]]> By: Siddharth Agrawal http://ourdelhistruggle.com/2009/06/01/the-loneliest-walla-ii-the-bank-guard/#comment-1505 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:36:22 +0000 http://ourdelhistruggle.com/?p=668#comment-1505 Is this all that different from the life of a salesman at a BMW dealership in the States?

]]> By: Almas Shamim http://ourdelhistruggle.com/2009/06/01/the-loneliest-walla-ii-the-bank-guard/#comment-1488 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 20:25:26 +0000 http://ourdelhistruggle.com/?p=668#comment-1488 hey…
have been readin ur blog for some time now…
it’s lovely to see ur view of India…:)
and truly, it’s sad that people have to bear the sight of others withdrawing money, more money than wat he earns in a month.
it crushes ur heart to think of it.. but then… life goes on…

]]> By: Rex http://ourdelhistruggle.com/2009/06/01/the-loneliest-walla-ii-the-bank-guard/#comment-1487 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:27:27 +0000 http://ourdelhistruggle.com/?p=668#comment-1487 You’re forgetting something- even if there’s a security camera, you still need a person at the other end to sit and watch. We don’t yet have the intelligent computer systems of science fiction that can ceaselessly monitor what’s going on without human intervention.

In this case, they’ve just saved on the cost of a camera- regardless of there being one they would still have to pay someone to watch over the ATM.
IMO, this is quite a dehumanizing job- at least when the guard is sitting right there, there’s SOME human presence as opposed to him being isolated in a lonely control room somewhere.

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