Friday, June 20, 2008

Weirdos from Another Planet

Please advise the company on whether it should buy or make the product.

I was in my room studying. Rather, my teacher was trying his best to teach me and I was trying my best to day-dream.

As I began to describe in detail why the hypothetical company would much rather buy product 'B', and that only fools would think otherwise, I was interrupted. My teacher and I looked up to see a man, with a bag. Any other description escapes me at this moment.

He said that he was sent from Onida, from whom I had purchased my Air conditioner. He was here for it's servicing. All this was jolly well, but it seemed to me that it was well past the warranty period. Oh well, I thought. Let the man do his thing.

He switched it on. He switched it off. And On again. Satisfied with the functioning of the remote he took a look at the AC. Mhmmm. Hmph. Taking notice of my waning patience he asked me how long it had been since the purchase. 1.5-2 years. Ah, more than one year then ?
*Glare*


Well , then your warranty period has expired. You will have to pay Service charge.
What the @*#$@ ?! I didn't call for this service my man. Why should I pay you ?!
Well, its past your warranty period. Company rules.
Snigger. Right. Look, I'm not paying you anything. You haven't done anything. I don't need the service.
But I've come all this way !! Where's the purchase bill ?
Huh ? I don't have it with me.
Well, you don't even have your purchase bill, it's past your warranty period and you won't even pay me ?!!

What the ... Please leave.

Well, at least sign this service form.
Uhh ... ok. Hold on ... ( the box with excellent service written below it is ticked) . You haven't done anything. I'm writing that on this form.
Hey ! First you're not paying me, now you won't even sign the form ?! You can't write that stuff in the form.

Lost for words.

I'm not paying you anything. I'm not signing that. Here's the contact phone number. Leave.

Exits.

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. - Calvin

2 comments:

Smart Primate said...

did this actually happen?
how could the onida guy just barge in just like that?
really funny incident though...

Tisfz said...

Can't believe someone actually read this .. I guess i have to thank saffrondude :P [that name's so weird] Anyway, I guess he was trying to con me or something .. regular blogging after november 12th !