Comments | exquisitely_moi: Service in the 'First World'

exquisitely_moi

Service in the 'First World'

Feb 06, 2009 13:05

And yet, there are times when I miss Singapore's impersonal efficiency and that 'things just work' back there. Europeans tend to be the bastions of the most languid pace ever, often romanticized by many, including yours truly, as 'quality of life' & 'work/life balance' - but given my utter intolerance for anything remotely close to bureaucracy and ( Read more... )

banks, service, europe, bureaucracy, asia

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kuriakonz February 11 2009, 05:33:09 UTC

omg.. this is funny for me to read.. but am sure it pissed off your innards!! i practice mental whack-a-mole game on my madame when she irritates me. you shd try the same too.

... exquisitely_moi February 11 2009, 09:56:39 UTC

pray tell what this whack-a-mole game be? cuz i have many many frustrating fighting-the-system moments here, i need to know these games!

kundz, miss u... are u going to miss choir once it's over?

Re: ... kuriakonz February 11 2009, 11:15:05 UTC

Whack-a-mole

Re: ... exquisitely_moi February 11 2009, 16:30:06 UTC

trust you to have the best time-pass suggestions ever ;)

anonymous February 13 2009, 04:16:27 UTC

Wow you certainly have some patience.

I'd have called the guy, been an angry customer and then gotten prompt service. Emails - takes too long... Unless of course you managed to CC the boss of that relationship manager (dunno who the relationship manager would report to).

Now THAT would've been fun :)

goodluck

exquisitely_moi February 13 2009, 15:06:55 UTC

haha, this ain't singapore, i say...

just the same way tht things take forever to work out in indian govt things n one learns to live wth it, i've adapted, i think, to this country's slow n plodding pace...

prompt service needs good moolah..