Visa silliness continues

Well, my trip to Bangalore is hanging the breeze again. The Indian embassy has outsourced their visa process and it's pretty obvious that they really don't want people to visit the country.

• Two weeks ago, I dropped off my application.
• The paperwork says to return in a week
• One part of the paperwork says to come by in the morning, another says to stop by in the afternoon.
• I went to the visa processing office for India this morning
• They sent me to the main embassy to drop off my passport
• I got to the office to find it closed. (It was about 11:50 so I am hoping it is just closed for lunch)
• I called the visa processing center to find out the hours but they only accept phone calls between 3pm and 4pm

So, I am sitting at a Tullys having a coffee and I'll go check on the embassy office at 1pm and see if it is open again. If it isn't open, then I guess I'm not going. I love this kind of back and forth - doesn't everyone? I'm supposed to fly out tomorrow at 11am and we haven't been able to buy my tickets yet. I bet all of this screwing around is going to cost the company a couple thousand in extra airfare at this rate.

Also, I'm supposed to be giving about 8 hours of technical training over the next three days. I guess everyone is going to just sit around and waste time. And DS flew people from all over the world to Bangalore to get this training, too...