I am from India and this was reasonably true for my vintage 80s (-1) :-) (BPO wave) The next question was whatsup? how is it going? how was your weekend? Our

I am from India and this was reasonably true for my vintage 80s (-1) :-) (BPO wave) The next question was whatsup? how is it going? how was your weekend? Our reaction was that the recipient (typically an overpaid US guy) actually wanted an answer. It took me a couple of years that they didn't really give a damn. It was actually a hallmark to ignore and move on to the objective topic. (It somewhat impressed those guys!)