Saturday, February 20, 2010

Our government office staff are not inefficient, they just don't want to work.

I was already tired and feeling a bit sick and they made me more tired and sick at canara bank. getting your job done quickly is not an easy task at non-private banks.Those who have been there know what I mean. When I went to this bank to withdraw some money they said “I cant withdraw” because it’s a minor account. I was like “What” it’s my account. They said the computer says I am a minor so they can’t honour the cheque.

“Don’t you fucking loose your temper on this,” I tell myself.

This sort of thing happens in these banks so I have to remain calm here. “if you don’t update your system, its none of my fault” I tell them. "We can’t do anything. We would need a photograph and your PAN card for verification."they say.( What the… I cant believe I am tolerating all this). I knew any explanation would be futile, and If I shout at them, I know for sure they’ll not do it even it’s an error on their part .

The only way out here is telling them, very politely that you really need money and addressing them as “SIR” telling sentences like “please sir”. It really works I say, 200 hundered years of colonialism and of addressing brits as "sir" if you didn’t want to get beaten up, it hasn’t changed a bit even after freedom.

So I said what I needed to, in a manner that I needed to. They told me to wait, in the mean time there was a man who was apparently denied payment too because he had written “seven thousand rupees only” in words which is incorrect as per the bank staff and he was supposed to write” seven thousand only”Ha.

I looked at my pen and thought there is a lot you can do with your pen like killing people, I was never going to do that ’I was just expressing an opinion.'

At times I can be verbally abusive. "No" "but really can't" "can't abuse them" "It wont have the effect" "To do that they'd have to know the language better, they'd have to know, first of all, what is a verb"

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