Today’s lesson boy’s n’ girls… (X) bank sux!
A coupla months back, a person – sales executive from a local bank dropped by our company to set up a corporate account for the employees here and start having our salaries transferred through them. This lad was new in town not familiar with the life style & daily routines of our expenditures.
Poor thing was listing down their offers, probably had it memorized like some macaw; He roamed around the company – dropping by these poor employees promising them accounts o free credit cards & loans granting blah blah blaaah o yada yada yada… When the time came to check the salary roof limit of these employees, he was shocked! His offer was if your salary was OVER 800 – you’re in, if not KESH o ma3al elsalama… aspired employees were devastated, their chances of having loans were smoke in the air!
Second major mistake he did was having discussions in general with certain employees – for the life time salary offer – not putting into consideration the twisted human nature and how some people take it personally – obviously like me! I hate racism and what he did was wrong- as a professional working in the banking sector, you should know that it’s better to discuss private financial issues in confidentiality to avoid embarrassment for the banker himself and for the potential client (enclosing monetary details).. well, since he’s new; He did that mistake and I gave him a piece of my mind – that was then, issue closed ok.
He shows up again, says hi & starts talking to people in my area; One guy goes like: “AM NOT INTERESTED. PERIOD” ! WOHO! Qaweyya! This guy talks softly saying: “leih.. kan 3andak 7sab ma3na, enta emjarreb bankna!” Dude answers yes and the services are BAD o your competitor (Y) bank is so much better. He jumps to another colleague, who showed some interest which then faded away after a short discussion.
You see, this time he comes saying he has offers for everyone, even those with the minimal salaries of KD 100, o credit cards o loans o mafi limit for your salary- sounds desperate to me huh! Anything to lure more naïve clients.. bad policy & marketing. He pops his head over my partition: “Hi chikapappi! Keefek! How are you” I reply fine and starts blabbing and at that time my mind was going like: “la la laa laaaa – Where are you! – universe sux big time”! I told him to have a seat and this is when things got ugly:
Him: “ba3dek ma ghayyarty ra2yek – haven’t you changed your mind yet, we have a new offer now and the major account of your company will be through our bank and if you don’t transfer, your salary will be delayed 3 days”
Me: “I don’t care.. am happy with (Y) bank and what you’re doing is not ok….
Him: “Sho ya3nee – what do you mean”
Me: “Ya3ny your bank is trying so hard and it’s not nice to force people”
After a couple of sentences between me & him ( which included my mom (HR) & myself as being the people stopping the whole company from transferring to RED-we reached to this point;
Him: “Why are you defending (Y) bank!”
Me: “I like their services and treatment, they are good”
Him: ” Maybe you know someone there or you have relatives working there, that’s y!” MY MIND WAS GONNA EXPOLDE ON THE WALL BEHIND ME!
Me: “la2, you know why! I am the girlfriend of Dabdoub (bank manager)! That’s y! o how dare you, a person that doesn’t know me say things like that! I don’t accept it”
He was quiet for a short coupla seconds then incomprehensively starts saying:
Him: “la2 ma a9dy- I didn’t mean that.. blah blah! In a desperate attempt to “gather karamto” – save water’s face -he goes like:
Him: “leikiiii, ma a9dy o ana metzaweej *shows me the ring!*” translation: “I don’t mean that, am married!”
ME: ” Hmmmm! You come & sit here and in front of these people- start talking to me like this and then say you are married! What does that have to do with the conversation – leish! Shayefnee 3am bghazlak walla b3mellak 7arakat b3yoony!” I MEAN WTH!
My mind switches off at that moment – he goes on talking – I shift my eyes and focus on the screen – he turns to Blue which is NOT interested of course, poor thing keeps looking at me – you gotta be firm honey ;)
RED BANK IS EVUL!
September 4th, 2007 at
Typical sales pitches, and I know them all…the next time he or one of his colleagues show up, just inform them that the RED bank is HALF the size of it’s BLUE competitor, and until they’re AT LEAST equal, you will remain banking with the best in town! :) that’ll always shoo them away..
September 4th, 2007 at
Im with blue .. i was going to change coz of the “riba is 7aram” and all that.. but i dont know
September 4th, 2007 at
The ‘Bee’ sucks even more ….
September 4th, 2007 at
All the banks in Kuwait need some sort of fixing.. something is wrong but I can’t put my finger on it ;)
September 4th, 2007 at
Good for you, for standing firm! All they care about is getting your money. In all my time in Kuwait, I have NEVER once even seen a bank statement!
September 4th, 2007 at
RED SUCKS…mmmmm ok??
Bee sucks…adry…
green…brother and sis of the upper two
mmm I will keep my self with blue :)
September 4th, 2007 at
ya7yaaaa Blue.
even though i used to like red, bas ra7at 3alihom ;p
oh and i dont think he will be coming back
September 5th, 2007 at
I hate it when they try to convince people about services when clearly, they’ve experienced it first-hand.
September 5th, 2007 at
yeah they are evil
September 5th, 2007 at
Funny.. I don’t know what is blue, green, red or bee..
I’m with NBK, because they are the nearset to my home.. Stupid but it is easy for me as I’m in Kuwait for less than 3 months/year…
But, What a desperate attempt to lure every single employee to their bank… from 800KD to 100KD… Sounds Fishy …
He was rude to say that your salary will be late just because your are not with their bank? What does he think himself to say something like that… ??
September 6th, 2007 at
Gee. Our banks just hand out crummy junk if you sign up with them. Like ice bags and stuff.