Writing has always been my
favourite past time. But over the last few years my flair for writing has been
hindered by lot of interferences. These interferences widely ranging from
personal to professional schemes have highly violated my habit of writing.
Banking has been a different game
from the day I have taken over as Branch Head Arnia. My experiences with
general banking started in Dec 2014 and still I am trying to figure out the
best ways and means of managing it the finest way. As has been the cases with
previous weeks I have been battling with new challenges every day. One new
challenge that added to my experience and deserves the mention here is the
offer from a state government department for deposit of their funds in our
branch. The whole background is depicted as under.
On Thursday while I was
negotiating some of the usual bank chore I received a call from one of my
friends posted in the state department. As he went ahead with his offer he
intimated me that his officer was asking for some sort of favour towards their
department from our end. He also asked me to make offer from my end. Few
minutes I was shocked to hear this but quickly understood that it was nothing
but a civilised way of asking for bribe. I checked with my superiors for the
offer that i could make to them. I got some idea but was not sure about how to
make it happen as we don’t have anything called as bribe account to offer to
the official. Although I defused the situation with some figures to my friend
but was not sure how i could do the same practically. Next morning I again got
a call from my friend that his department head was meeting me the next day. Before
I meet him I decided to check again with my guru in State Bank about how to go
ahead. A word of caution was sounded from his end which actually was in line
with my thoughts. The next morning I met the State Department Head who asked me
officially the offer to be made to them. I showed my inability to offer
anything really handsome to them and kept them open for next meeting with
discussions to be taken up with my superiors. While the proposal is still under
discussions the incident indicated the
manner in which the business is being done at any level and the whole concept
of services and marketing them is absolutely rubbish. I guess that is the way
business is being done in real world GIVE AND TAKE.
A bank managers’ job has been impacted with
huge overload although technological progress made by the industry had made
things lot easier. A decision making
like the above only adds to your woes. Don’t know what will happen next week.
The week definitely throws up some interesting challenges ahead.
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