Eskom will heave a sigh of relief that they’ve not the Chosen Despised this week, because The Banks without even trying have shot to Public Enemy Number One. As profits fall they become more desperate to sell you more of what you definitely don’t want. By Banks I include all companies that sell those grudge purchase financial products you and I have to buy to sleep at night.
So I was extra delighted when I got an unsolicited call on my cell from AIG South Africa.
Firstly, my phone is always buried deep in my handbag, so I have to scramble for it, and when I find out it’s not a publisher desperate to have my first novel, I’m already disappointed. The caller’s name is Lerato and she wants to know how I am. After I reassure her of my good health, she launches into her script and, depending on my mod I might let her rabbit on for seven or nine words, but she’s not a publisher, so I ask if this is the same AIG that went bankrupt last week. Yes, she says nervously, “but it’s alright now.”
This is right after I’ve read an article on how AIG executives flew across the pond to shoot some really stringy birds they weren’t going to eat anyway, and this was only one of 160 junkets AIG had planned which nobody had got around to cancelling in all the chaos.
I predict Lerato will be out of that call centre in six months, poor lamb. Less if she ever calls me again.
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