Start-up owner offers job to nuptial match sent by father. And then...

Udita Pal is the co-founder of Bengaluru-based Salt

Every parent wants to find the perfect life partner for their children. Some people try to do this by informing all their relatives when their children reach marriageable age, while others use a marriage website.

But what happened recently when a father forwarded a suspected groom’s profile to his daughter has left the internet split. The daughter took advantage of the wedding site in the most humorous and inventive way.

So, what did the daughter, Udita Pal, the co-founder of Bengaluru-based Salt, a fintech platform that facilitates international transactions, do? Ms. Pal tried to hire the man whose profile her father had shared with her. Yes, you read that right!

Ms. Pal also went ahead and shared a screenshot of her father’s reaction when he learned what she’d done.

Her father’s text begins with the message, ‘Can we talk? Urgently.”

Then he goes on to ask her, “Do you know what you’ve done?”

He adds: “You can’t hire people through marriage sites. What should he say to his father now?”

He goes on to say: “I saw your message. You gave him an interview link and asked for his resume.”

Finally, Ms. Pal replies to these messages. She casually says, “7 years of fintech experience is great and we’re hiring. I’m sorry.”

Ms. Pal captioned the tweet: “What being estranged from dad looks like.”

Here’s the whole conversation:

What being estranged from father looks like. pic.twitter.com/nZLOslDUjq
— Udita Pal ???? (@i_Udita) April 29, 2022

Her post has over 11,000 likes and has been retweeted over 800 times.

In a subsequent tweet, she shared some “updated news”. She said the man had demanded a salary of Rs 62 lakhs per year, and ESOPs, which her company, she claimed, could not afford. She added that her father had deleted her marriage profile.

Please follow @saltpe_
updated news:-
– he’s looking for 62 LPA + ESOPs (can’t afford it)
– my father deleted my JS profile
– please don’t let hate fall on me, I cry very easily.
— Udita Pal ???? (@i_Udita) April 29, 2022

The entire episode has amused online users. Among the respondents was the marriage website, Jeevansathi.com, which offered Ms. Pal to find the “perfect life partner”.

Let us know if you have a vacancy and we will apply for the perfect life partner. #WeMatchBetter †
— Jeevansathi.com (@Jeevansathi_com) April 29, 2022

One user wrote that it was “epic stuff” and asked that since the man hadn’t been hired, “he had a chance on the other side”.

Epic stuff. Does he stand a chance on the other front, since he was not hired anyway?
— Heena B (@br_heena) April 29, 2022

Another user said his wife worked in recruitment and after seeing this father-daughter exchange, he notified her of the “new data source for suitable candidates”, referring to marriage sites.

Wow… I can’t believe… My wife is in Recruitment, I told her I found a new data source for suitable candidates for your company.
— Akhanda (@BigBossKaB1) April 29, 2022

A third user hoped that Ms. Pal would get married on naukri.com.

Hope you are getting married at https://t.co/lDBFS0wasG
— Fiat justitia (raisond’etre- homosapien)beदीme (@PrmSwrp) April 29, 2022

One user said that if he had been the groom-to-be, he would have said, “Maybe you can’t pay me professionally, but personally I’m all yours.”

I’m interested in “how did you get started?”
If I had been in his place “maybe professionally you can’t pay me but personally I’m all yours”????????
— yash watwani (@WatwaniWorld) Apr 30, 2022

A few users also shared some funny GIFs: