It's really sad that for the first time in 5 years after having moved back to India, I am actually regretting the decision of having moved back....(:
Thanks to the highly ineffcient customer service and services in general in our country.
Chapter 1:
I had applied for a post paid mobile connection with Airtel on Monday at their relationship centre outlet.
I submitted copies of all the necessary documentation showing them the originals for verification , after which I was issued a sim and was told it would get activated the same night... It got activated next morning..
Yesterday i.e. Thursday.. a person from Airtel came to my office for verification, since I told I would not be available at home. He did all the necessary verification got my signature and left...!
This moring i.e. Friday, i get a message from Airtel, that since they are not in receipt of my documents, outgoing calls would be restriicted on my no.. What the hell?
I immediately called customer service and demanded to speak to a senior manager since the guys at the call centre give standard responses.. which will always mention.. " we regret inconvenience"... Bullshit.. "u are all meant only for putting people to inconvenience,,,So after several minutes of holding.. on the line ..a manager came on the line and I gave her a piece of my mind...saying how ridiculous can they be to demand the documents again when they have already been submitted..? Highly inefficient and not one bit co-ordinated service from the so called major enterprise called AIRTEL. 5 THUMBS DOWN FOR AIRTEL.
Chapter 2: I had sent an envelope by First Flight courier from Bombay to Bangalore 2 days back on the 15th.The envelope has not yet been delivered at Bombay even while I am writing this post.Most couriers charge Only Rs 50to Bombay.. First Flight charged 85 and guaranteed next day delivery. But it's been 2 days and yet to be delivered. and when I check the staus online, they mention address insufficient...! How ridiculous...? the addresswas completely provided along with a phone no.
How can I not give a correct and sufficient address when I have been living at that address for 23 years?
Besides even if the address is insufficient... what for is the phone no. provided.. cant they call the no. and get the correct address? DUH ...! 10 THUMBS DOWN For First Flight Courier!
Why are Words such as "guarantee" and "regret" used so loosely and so often in the Indian scheme of things .. when people don't even understand and mean what they say?
Friday, December 17, 2010
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Rummy's back with a bang!
Hey guys, Sorry for the long hiatus..! I promise to be more regular in my blogging henceforth.
Well I have been busy with mundane activities at work coupled with a whole bunch of additional responsibilities which I am actually enjoying...!
Promise to post my travelogue on Sikkim soon one of these days..!
In the meanwhile wanted to pen down a few thoughts that I have been strongly feeling about..!
The other day, I was walking near my office, when I saw a guy a little ahead of me , who looked like a lawyer ( bcos he was dressed like one!) spit pan on the road and get into a nearby parked car which happened to be a Volkswagen Polo.
Luckily for me ( Unluckily for him) the car was still parked at that place and as I walked past the car , I gave him a piece of my mind. Told him" He looked like an educated person and was sitting inside a fancy car, and how ridiculous it was of him to spit on the road in such a manner"
I just said this and walked away and did not even wait for him to react.
I strongly believe that when educated people like this litter on the road and spit , how can we expect the uneducated lot of our country to have civic sense and hold them responsible for our country being so dirty.
I think it is totally unfair.
Yesterday on TV, our honourable home minister Mr. P.Chidamabram made a statement : The rise of crime and rapes in Delhi was due to migrants.
What an ignorant and careless statement.
Mr.Home Minister, Bombay , the city where I was born and brought up, has an equal no. of, if not more migrants from other parts of the country.
Yet the crime rate and cases of rape in Bombay are far less than in Delhi and women in general feel more safe venturing out alone in the night!
All this again boils down to the same basic inherent problem so widely prevalent in our country...
Whenever an incident occurs, we jump to passing the blame onto somebody and do not introspect! We seem to be more occupied in playing the blame game , passing the buck, rather than solving the problem itself!
Well I have been busy with mundane activities at work coupled with a whole bunch of additional responsibilities which I am actually enjoying...!
Promise to post my travelogue on Sikkim soon one of these days..!
In the meanwhile wanted to pen down a few thoughts that I have been strongly feeling about..!
The other day, I was walking near my office, when I saw a guy a little ahead of me , who looked like a lawyer ( bcos he was dressed like one!) spit pan on the road and get into a nearby parked car which happened to be a Volkswagen Polo.
Luckily for me ( Unluckily for him) the car was still parked at that place and as I walked past the car , I gave him a piece of my mind. Told him" He looked like an educated person and was sitting inside a fancy car, and how ridiculous it was of him to spit on the road in such a manner"
I just said this and walked away and did not even wait for him to react.
I strongly believe that when educated people like this litter on the road and spit , how can we expect the uneducated lot of our country to have civic sense and hold them responsible for our country being so dirty.
I think it is totally unfair.
Yesterday on TV, our honourable home minister Mr. P.Chidamabram made a statement : The rise of crime and rapes in Delhi was due to migrants.
What an ignorant and careless statement.
Mr.Home Minister, Bombay , the city where I was born and brought up, has an equal no. of, if not more migrants from other parts of the country.
Yet the crime rate and cases of rape in Bombay are far less than in Delhi and women in general feel more safe venturing out alone in the night!
All this again boils down to the same basic inherent problem so widely prevalent in our country...
Whenever an incident occurs, we jump to passing the blame onto somebody and do not introspect! We seem to be more occupied in playing the blame game , passing the buck, rather than solving the problem itself!
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
I am back ..!
Alas, the much awaited two weeks of fun and frolic have come to an end and it's back again to the and monotonous and drab life.
It all started with Mom's visit to Madras on 20th, followed by an uncle's 70th b'day celebrations ( with a family get together).
Then was spent a week with mom interspersed with shopping, a movie and dinner outings in the evening.
the week following was spent at neels in chennai( my 2nd home ) with cousins and her kids visiting from U.S., a dozen ppl at home, dinner outings evry night, games, drinks, movies, the works...!
I mis you all, Amma, Anshul, Rishabh & Bhavan...! Muuah.,.!
It all started with Mom's visit to Madras on 20th, followed by an uncle's 70th b'day celebrations ( with a family get together).
Then was spent a week with mom interspersed with shopping, a movie and dinner outings in the evening.
the week following was spent at neels in chennai( my 2nd home ) with cousins and her kids visiting from U.S., a dozen ppl at home, dinner outings evry night, games, drinks, movies, the works...!
I mis you all, Amma, Anshul, Rishabh & Bhavan...! Muuah.,.!
Monday, December 14, 2009
Yet another week begins!
This is one of those groggy Mondays... when I feel train -lagged after My weekend in Bangalore..!
But the day has been okay so far... having completed most of my scheduled tasks.... at work for the day!
Just gonna go home and take a nap!
The weekend was fun as usual with a friend's birthday party on saturday with drinks and lunch and music. Got back home at 7 , and watched "wake up sid" Very fresh movie!
But the day has been okay so far... having completed most of my scheduled tasks.... at work for the day!
Just gonna go home and take a nap!
The weekend was fun as usual with a friend's birthday party on saturday with drinks and lunch and music. Got back home at 7 , and watched "wake up sid" Very fresh movie!
Friday, December 11, 2009
Enough is enough..!! Gimme my India back... No Telangana... bodoland... etc..!
Our country supposedly the largest democracy ( parliamentary) in the world!
But our parliament members are utterly ridiculous..! Not one of them is interested in the greater purpose of serving the nation and trying to solve the multitude of problems that has thwarted the progress of our country... Inflation, illiteracy... droughts, terrorism, poverty...Unemployment..!Instead they seem to derive the ultimate pleasure in playing blame game as always and pointing fingers at each other... as was exhibited in the most embarrassing manner at the recent Lieberhan debate in Parliament....!! No..I am not gonna be politically correct/incorrect by taking sides of either the Congress or the BJP..! Both seem to be 2 sides of the same coin...Terribly disappointing...!
And now to add to this, The centre having given in to Chandrashekar Rao's demand for a seperate state of Telangana!
I totally agree with Jawaharlal Nehru " That one can't hold a nation ransom by resorting to means such as fasting, this only defeats the very purpose of democracy."
Undoubtedly uprisings would follow suite in every state and district... demanding for seperate statehood!
Gimme back my India... This is not the India I expected to come back to... from the U.S.A. few years back..!!(:
But our parliament members are utterly ridiculous..! Not one of them is interested in the greater purpose of serving the nation and trying to solve the multitude of problems that has thwarted the progress of our country... Inflation, illiteracy... droughts, terrorism, poverty...Unemployment..!Instead they seem to derive the ultimate pleasure in playing blame game as always and pointing fingers at each other... as was exhibited in the most embarrassing manner at the recent Lieberhan debate in Parliament....!! No..I am not gonna be politically correct/incorrect by taking sides of either the Congress or the BJP..! Both seem to be 2 sides of the same coin...Terribly disappointing...!
And now to add to this, The centre having given in to Chandrashekar Rao's demand for a seperate state of Telangana!
I totally agree with Jawaharlal Nehru " That one can't hold a nation ransom by resorting to means such as fasting, this only defeats the very purpose of democracy."
Undoubtedly uprisings would follow suite in every state and district... demanding for seperate statehood!
Gimme back my India... This is not the India I expected to come back to... from the U.S.A. few years back..!!(:
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Quite a satisfying and productive work week!
Well the last few days at work have been super busy and productive..! Have been preparing some case studies, which we plan to upload on our company's website, attending very effective training sessions on TDM & VOIP ( translatestime division multiplexing & Voice over Internet Protocol , for all you non techies out there) coupled with the regular work of drafting technical proposals interspersed with periodic research on product offerings!
Learnt a few lessons of life this week:
10% of life is made up of what happens to you, 90% of life is decided by how you react !
Don't be serious, be sincere!
Learnt a few lessons of life this week:
10% of life is made up of what happens to you, 90% of life is decided by how you react !
Don't be serious, be sincere!
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Hello World.... Rummy's back ... with her rantings!
Well, I am back on the blogging circuit after a long hiatus....of more than a year! ( BTW... credit of enticing me to start blogging again goes to my cousin swathi... who recently started a blog within the family... which brought back memories of my blogging adventures and here I am restarting a whole new journey!)
The past year has been pretty eventful with 9 months of my efforts of seeking employment in Bangalore going in vain( Thanks to the screwed up economy!) making me move back to Chennai to start working for the company I used to work for earlier.( Great ...I have a job now... but the flipside is I am having to stay away from my hubby who is working and staying in Bangalore...!! sob sob...(: . So our meetings are now restricted to alternate weekends that i travel to Bangalore... cos.. i work alternate saturdays... which sucks tooo!)
I guess that's what they mean when they say"No gains without pains" ( But.... this is way too painful...!)
But atleast I am enjoying my work thoroughly ( thank god for that...!) and the respite on the weekends that I am in chennai, being provided by getaway at Neels!( My uncle/ aunt's place in Neelankari Chennai) clubbed with going to movies, plays, and relaxing in general!
Watch this space for more..!!
Cheers,
Rummy.
The past year has been pretty eventful with 9 months of my efforts of seeking employment in Bangalore going in vain( Thanks to the screwed up economy!) making me move back to Chennai to start working for the company I used to work for earlier.( Great ...I have a job now... but the flipside is I am having to stay away from my hubby who is working and staying in Bangalore...!! sob sob...(: . So our meetings are now restricted to alternate weekends that i travel to Bangalore... cos.. i work alternate saturdays... which sucks tooo!)
I guess that's what they mean when they say"No gains without pains" ( But.... this is way too painful...!)
But atleast I am enjoying my work thoroughly ( thank god for that...!) and the respite on the weekends that I am in chennai, being provided by getaway at Neels!( My uncle/ aunt's place in Neelankari Chennai) clubbed with going to movies, plays, and relaxing in general!
Watch this space for more..!!
Cheers,
Rummy.
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