Bad Ass FM
Written on April 19, 2007 by Sid
A few days back I was one of the so called lucky winners of a contest held for a major ketchup brand, conducted by an NCR based FM channel that associates itself with a particularly vibrant color.
Today, a lady, lets call her MarsBar, calls me and confirms that I have indeed won something and I need to collect it from their office in NOIDA. It struck me as odd that I had to interact with the security guard… but so be it.
I reached their office today and there were two guards there, neither of whom had any idea what was happening. They said their ’supervisor’ was out for lunch and he should be back soon. So I stood outside and waited… and waited… and waited. Then I asked one of them to please call the lady - MarsBar. The chap saunters inside and then saunters back outside.
So I waited… and waited… and waited…
Then I asked the guard to please call her again. He says ‘I’ve called her and she will come’ - end of discussion. Looks like we’re waiting for the Queen of England. Perhaps I’m supposed to be impressed. I wasn’t.
Then the ’supervisor’ plods in and asks me what I’m there for. I tell him… for the third time that afternoon. Do these people (read - the idiots in the FM channels management) have any idea how it feels to tell a security guard that you’re waiting to get a bunch of free ketchup? So he takes my ID and proceeds to get it photocopied. Note that I have been standing all this time, without any real staff of the channel meeting me.
2 Minutes later, the Queen of England, sorry, MarsBar, walks in and says ‘and you are… Siddhartha?’. ‘Yes’, I confirm, and she proceeds to tell me that it does take a while to get the stuff from the store. Apparently, Mrs MarsBar doesn’t understand that she could have stepped out and told me that she was going to take a while, or perhaps sent a message through the security guard, that she was going to be a while. Obviously the Queen of England has other things on her mind.
The saving grace were two cool looking chaps [chubby chap with a goatee and a cool haircut + dude with a pair of white rimmed shades doing a B&H) taking a nicotine break, who inquired if I was a prize winner and tried to hasten things a little. Now *that* is the kind of attitude Ms MarsBar should have had, but didn’t.
Obviously, it will be quite some time before I participate in another ***FM contest again.
Sid
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