....I'm sitting at the bank waiting for a letter verifying my residential address to be the same as per the bank records - signed by the bank manager. I will then submit this letter along with my application for a new passport.
I wrote a letter to the bank manager -he 'ok'ed my request, following which it was just a matter of typing it out on the bank letterhead and getting the bank managers signature. Instead of that happening - i'm now being asked to wait because the 'middleman' who will type my letter, needs to verify if I did infact submit my proof of residence when I opened the account on the 18th of May -2005.
Why? Because when I first asked him about this letter, he said it can't be done - and when I said it could (which he knew) he basically got ticked off. He got ticked off because I told him that he couldn't do his job whichever way suited him best - and I being the customer, I came first.
The same way, the security guard has been giving me grief - everytime I come here - about not parking in one've the slots that're vacant - cuz its not bank parking - its the medical company's parking or this company or that company - every other company that's in the building,except the bank. And he has been a ROYAL pain every single time.
Why? Because he has authority over the parking and he feels he can screw anybody whenever he wants (though the opposite is more likely to be true).
This is just blatant ineptitude. I mean, to know that something can be sorted very easily and politely - but you choose to make someone elses life difficult - 'just because'
''Just because?? What the fuck is 'just because'????!!!'
It's just daft. And in all honesty, i've been daft myself - on a few occassions.
I mean....this attitude harks back to the 80's when the economy hadn't yet opened up, and people were struggling, so corruption was on a high - from the govenrment head to the clerk at the government office - and all companies functioned like government offices, because that's the only way they knew how to function. Infact, most hindi movies dating from the early to late 70's had some form of struggle around which was built the story...the dancing around trees remained ofcourse.
And following the opening of the economy in the 90's and the influx of multinationals soon after - people started realizing the need for 'professional management'...it didn't happen overnight - people are still making the shift even today - but it started the process. Having said that, this 'government office' tag has stayed with a lot of people. It's almost as if the 'pre-globalization' of the economy era - were their glory years! It's quite warped....and it's just daft.
I love that word. 'Daft'. It's so much better than calling someone a 'fool' or 'idiot' or anything else like that...
It's like the 'C' word. Far more effective than the 'f' word. I once called someone a 'daft c_ _ _'. Suffice to say, the argument ended soon after.
Anyway, this 'gornamunt' attitude....i know it'll change - eventually. I guess in a way it'll take as long as it does to flush out the old guard and their old habits from the system. It's much like people nowadays are very encouraging of younger politicians joining politics (Omar Abdullah, Mr.Scindia Jr, Rahul Gandhi) - cuz we feel these are the people that'll bring about the change in our system.
How much of a change it'll actually be and to what extent - only time will tell. As long as they avoid going down the pot-bellied, balding, pan-chewing, money-grabbing route of their predecessors - we should be ok.
I wrote a letter to the bank manager -he 'ok'ed my request, following which it was just a matter of typing it out on the bank letterhead and getting the bank managers signature. Instead of that happening - i'm now being asked to wait because the 'middleman' who will type my letter, needs to verify if I did infact submit my proof of residence when I opened the account on the 18th of May -2005.
Why? Because when I first asked him about this letter, he said it can't be done - and when I said it could (which he knew) he basically got ticked off. He got ticked off because I told him that he couldn't do his job whichever way suited him best - and I being the customer, I came first.
The same way, the security guard has been giving me grief - everytime I come here - about not parking in one've the slots that're vacant - cuz its not bank parking - its the medical company's parking or this company or that company - every other company that's in the building,except the bank. And he has been a ROYAL pain every single time.
Why? Because he has authority over the parking and he feels he can screw anybody whenever he wants (though the opposite is more likely to be true).
This is just blatant ineptitude. I mean, to know that something can be sorted very easily and politely - but you choose to make someone elses life difficult - 'just because'
''Just because?? What the fuck is 'just because'????!!!'
It's just daft. And in all honesty, i've been daft myself - on a few occassions.
I mean....this attitude harks back to the 80's when the economy hadn't yet opened up, and people were struggling, so corruption was on a high - from the govenrment head to the clerk at the government office - and all companies functioned like government offices, because that's the only way they knew how to function. Infact, most hindi movies dating from the early to late 70's had some form of struggle around which was built the story...the dancing around trees remained ofcourse.
And following the opening of the economy in the 90's and the influx of multinationals soon after - people started realizing the need for 'professional management'...it didn't happen overnight - people are still making the shift even today - but it started the process. Having said that, this 'government office' tag has stayed with a lot of people. It's almost as if the 'pre-globalization' of the economy era - were their glory years! It's quite warped....and it's just daft.
I love that word. 'Daft'. It's so much better than calling someone a 'fool' or 'idiot' or anything else like that...
It's like the 'C' word. Far more effective than the 'f' word. I once called someone a 'daft c_ _ _'. Suffice to say, the argument ended soon after.
Anyway, this 'gornamunt' attitude....i know it'll change - eventually. I guess in a way it'll take as long as it does to flush out the old guard and their old habits from the system. It's much like people nowadays are very encouraging of younger politicians joining politics (Omar Abdullah, Mr.Scindia Jr, Rahul Gandhi) - cuz we feel these are the people that'll bring about the change in our system.
How much of a change it'll actually be and to what extent - only time will tell. As long as they avoid going down the pot-bellied, balding, pan-chewing, money-grabbing route of their predecessors - we should be ok.
