A friend was in town this weekend to quit his job (he was based out of Bangalore, but had to give his exit interview and return his laptop in Mumbai). Over dinner, we came up with the following insight:
CEOs will want to live luxuriously and have a minimal commute everwhere they are, but only in Bombay will it end up screwing other employees. In Bangalore, the CEO will buy a 5 bedroom luxury flat in Indiranagar, and the employees will have 1 or 2 BHKs in JP Nagar. The CEO will have a ten minute commute to MG Road, and the employees will have half hour commutes or so.
But in Bombay, the really successful CEO will demonstrate his success by living on Marine Drive and Cuffe Parade with a ten minute commute to his Fort office. And since all the employees can afford is Andheri, they’ll get buttfucked in the locals.
(Ed: This was written back in October when I was still based in Mumbai. It’s made it’s way out of the backlog only now.)