scarletfan

Yesterday morning, 7:30am the teaboys went round the office with a slice of cake for everybody. Yesterday afternoon they came round the office again with samosas and cans of mountain dew for everybody. The reason:Pakistani Independence day. All paid for out of their own pockets! These guys were beaming yesterday and proud of their nationality. Nothing of this sort happened on any Brit or other Western National Days, and yesterday I felt ashamed that these guys who earn peanuts compared to a lot of us, went to all this trouble. Did this happen anywhere else yesterday?

Charismatic

That's nice, now you just have to think of an excuse to return the goodwill with interest.

Spugsy

not to us, I think we have one old pakistani bloke, the rest are ndians with a couple or sri lankans, our tea boy actualy lives at work, he's there all the time, I'm a grad 15 and he's a grade 1, I dread to think how much he earns, I've been thinking of giving him a tip when I leave, poor lad.

NorthernLad

Never seen or heard of any nationality doing that.

There's an idea for St Georges day though, I'll take some pork pies and a crate of John Smiths into the office.

scarletfan

Yeah, I'll make a cauldron of traditional cawl and get some welsh cakes!