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"Sir .. Aapka Naam Global Terrorist List mein hai" - StanC

MBA over :(
Room - 321, Hostel -3, NITIE campus.
God Bless that place as it has been converted into a girls hostel :)

I joined the ITC, Bhopal branch on 19th June. 15 days of Sonar Bangla's hospitality was still in mind and my bag. Then a pick up from airport, awesome guest house, cook, beer bottles,etc.

I knew we(me & fellow AUT from IIM-C) were getting ready to be butchered :)

We reported to the branch on 20th and then it was no looking back.
Selling sutta on cycle, accompanying salesman & supervisors was the task given for the first 10 days. Vijaya Gupta's monopoly market curve & T Prasad's Mandi (Sales event in NITIE) used to flash thru during those rides. Thank God the company diversified into foods & personal care. Otherwise that cycle ride could have been longer :) ....

One of those 10 days with the ciggi Salesman:
I reached WD quite early to understand all the distributor processes. Meanwhile, I was trying to cram all the PTRs 5 flake ka 81, 5 bristol ka 87 se .. 5 insignia 609.

I had opened an salary account with StanC. 1st salary was credited a day before.
Everybody receives it. Except me. My card was also blocked and messages to contact the branch immediately was SMSed 4 times the day before. I had tried everything in the local branch. But again was an aweful experience with "StanC". No reasons were told for the issue.

Irfan(Ciggi Salesman): " Saheeeb .. Thoda deeer mein chalte hai .. bills katva raha hun"
Me: : " Aaram se karo ... mein aata hun."

So I decides to call up StanC, Kolkatta where the account was opened. A lady picks up the phone.

After all the useless verification details:
Lady: " Sir .. mein aapki kya sewa kar sakti hun"
I told her my card, account etc is not activated.

After a minute .. she comes up with this:
Lady - " Sir ... aapka surname and firstname.. anuj bansal .. ek global terrorist se match ho gaya hai. aapki photo se toh nahi lagta .. aap kafi young ho .. ITC join kiya hai .. aap kaise ho sakte ho??"


Me - " Ofcourse am not !!!! .. u could have given some other excuse for your bank's mistake"

Lady - " sir .. aapke passport par recent muscat ka stamp bhi hai .. hamare security division ne red alert karke apka account block karvaya hai " ... bla bla.

Me - " This is limit ... get your manager on the line"

Lady - " Its not possible ... nahi kar sakte"

Me - " where is my 1st salary ?"

Lady - " Sir .. Suspense Account! .. Jab tak apna identity verify nahi hota hai vahi rahegi"

Me - " WTF .. " .

I am standing there amused and confused.

Irfan(Ciggi Salesman) : " Saheb .. kya ho gaya .. pareshan lag rahe hai ?? "
Me : " Bank vale bol rahe hai mein ek terrorist hun "
Irfan (with smile) : " Saheb .. humme toh bank, school, govt sab yehi kehte hai "
Me (after a pause): " Hmmmm .... bills ho gaye? .. chalte hai"

Then a day later, rang up people left & right. I came to know through StanC Corp Banking, that it was there in the list of Al-Qaeda terrorists, issued by US.

Fellow AUTs call me a high profile StanC client .. i call StanC an aao-ji-aao bank :)