I was unable to find the original author of this joke, which I received from my friend Sergey working in Electronic Arts.

From my experience of outsourcing work to emerging markets: Chinese: Me: do X, Y and Z Them: ok Me, week later: how goes it? Them: did you mean X is Z and Y is not? Me: what?! Indian: Me: do X, Y, Z Them: thank you Sir and have a wonderful day Me, week later: how goes it? Them: beautiful Me: did you finish X? Them: we are analyzing it Russian: Me: do X, Y, Z Them: why do X, when you can do N? Me: customer wants it that way Them: tell the customer he is stupid; here, take N

Sergey commented that it was "very life-like".