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The Week That Was

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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