Sometime back in 2004 September there was a few confusion with my erstwhile Standard Chartered Banking account which had been also a payroll account for my the then one before organization, which is now defunct. There was hilarious headaches with a few stupid phone banking and in the process one cheque book got misplaced in transit to Bangalore. After a little long arduous ordeal till January 2005, the new cheque books got reinstated besides ensuring that my savings account over there was sundered off any relationship with the defunct organization. A little payment for the lost cheque book also served as a Agni Pareeksha to ensure that any afflicting bad eye or sins are also cleared thereon.

 

Two years from then a little shift between Chennai and Bangalore by my friend brought back the lost cheque book. But by now, since the cheque book was already declared lost and it was a closed file, I just thought I would damage it. A few days back since for a while the account was not in use and my other file managing my accounts was also in the process of migration to a newer and robust (!) architecture, this cheque book transitions spawned a new set of confusions.

 

Writing to the callous customer care or the phony phone staff of SCB didn't seem to yeild any fruitful results other than being wasted futile phone calls and hence thought I would visit Adyar branch today and get this thing sorted out. It took about thirty minutes for them to dig through and excavate the deep records, exhume the instructions given long back, do an autopsy on the same and then to bury it deep again. It has now been declared that the new cheque books are free of any type of fallacy and free to use without any let or hindrance of any creed or kind. Also the relationship of the account with any organization has also been cleared off forthwith.

 

There is one Sardarji staff in Adyar who is really very informative and helpful resource in the branch. Let us appreciate his helpful gesture too. I forgot his name anyway.