Vanilla Ice Cream That Puzzled General Motors!

Email Reply to Former MD on general situation, including LIC

To: Yahoo! <g_chidambar@yahoo.com>

Revered Sir,

1)True, Good old days are good old days

In many respects

Safety & security was there.Today hell let loose by Hooligans, Terrorists,& law & order deterioration

Citizens mute spectators

Even quality of Products, commodities, Vehicles, Cars fine & even exemplary

Today fabulous costs, meaningless ads,20 kms per litre, but not even 10 kms per litre performance.Cost so high & prohibitive

.

With all deficiencies, we did not have this robot life we experience now.

What a mosaic of family & social relationship we had.

Joint family system had its own charms.Children, as now, are not let loose.

If parents are busy, other so many relations take turn, guide, mentor,

I remember my 2nd eldest brother, who remained a bachelor,late Sri TR Anantharaman to get married our 2 sisters & educate Ramesh  & myself, used to coach 14 ,including we, other tenants children at Chintadripet,.He was a tough taskmaster,but lo, all progressed well in academics & later lives, emerged as worthy citizens.

Where is education, Sir, quality deteriorated, Teachers less said the better, we still remember Teachers of Schools, College, University Professors & have high regard of them 

2)Coming to Pontiac, just like little kids today,we also noted the various car brands & manufacturers of yester years,recounted them,compared them etc

Pontiac,if I am not wrong, used to have 5 distinctive lines.

That strife-torn area ,ur Chittappa cld traverse with confidence indicated not only his courage but fair sense of better unity prevailed

3)Wave of freedom & independence prior to 8/1947 also counted a lot ,as citizens & guiding stars of politicians,unlike today's politicians,really last refuge of scoundrels,had real interests of country at heart & breathed patriotism & true nationalism

We are fed up with unwanted criticism ,caustic comments, sarcasm,meaningless utterances,obstacles to, progress being initiated with all seriousness by PM Modi.

4)Why look at apathy of LIC Mgt,many Divns March Pension credited,not even on 2nd, 3rd & Thanjavur 4th April late evening after server problem was rectified,after I spoke to SDM Sectt

Employees, they will pay on last but one  day of month,not Pensioners !

How much after taking up, fighting with Mgt, we got like the Boon Family Floater Policy & now even Rs 25 lacs, Rs 30 lacs offerred

5/2010 AIRIEF got from Mgt 75 % rebate in Premium

Point is what shd take 3 yrs, takes 6 yrs. 2 yrs, 4 yrs, 1 year, 2 years

12 Mly deductions we pursued for 5/6 yrs.We are so glad, NO ONE will now go out of the Mediclaim scheme.

Pensioners Portal 4 yr old 4 page valuable suggestion by us,still going on & on,WHY because we are dumb, no power,political power, lung power,money power ?

All other cadres have Portals long before

How much time I spend talking, meeting ZO officials,all pensioners decns CO only,slow yatra,remind, remind,

Employees got arrears in 48 hrs

It took 1/8/2012 retirees wage & Retirement arrears after 2 months, why different criteria, we can take up later attitude Jawab nai

Why, Pension fixation & pension arrears not attended to ,wa goes on & on

Because we are here, but for how long,60/65/70 yrs old are unwilling to enter, Fabulous salary, peak Retirement benefits,any car, any phone,loan so so liberal,look at CV of Pension, it looks like another Pension.

Ring up any BO, u wont get connection,where is human response, how useful, progressive, mental makeup, we oldies created in employees as part of HRD,

We don't know now who is HRD ED, what HRD is doing, any Magazine we don't know, sad Human Capital is not given adequate & vital importance it requires

U all attached so much shine & importance to ZTC, MDC, U made us vie with one another,Magazines have become 4 pages Mly, unlike older years Qly 64pages with quality all-round holistic stuff We shed tears 

Sorry sir, I have taken the liberty with U as u were one who wished well every one,. UR talks were so homely with wit & wisdom, None can beat u in innate humour, u make us laugh & laugh, U are a master in English ,Hindi & other languages,u wore even languages with pride,so to say

Nobody is belittling any present rate of progress or achievement, but one detests delay , no alertness ,less responsiveness, no empathy  etc& this is repulsive for we elders, Sr citizens & Super Sr Citizens.

Greetings & warm regards,

R.B.KISHORE

VP,AIRIEF 

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On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 6:27 PM, Yahoo! <g_chidambar@yahoo.com> wrote:

Dear Kishore.

  It is a logical and a wonderful story. I read through it because
of the name Pontiac.It reminded me of 1940 when India was one
and my grand father (Chittappa thatha) left Simla munipality and
joined Jammu & Kashmir Govt. as its Chief Engineer.He went to
Lahore bought a Pontiac there enroute and drove on to Srinagar
The price tag was less than RS 5000/-He did not feel unsafe and
drove himself.He was 44 years old.

      Many of these things cannot be done today by an Indian !
I wonder how many queries can be raised in this incident .

    Love

Chidambar--------------------------------------------

On Mon, 4/4/16, Ramanujam Kishore <rbkseetha@gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Fwd: Vanilla Ice Cream That Puzzled General Motors!
 

  An Interesting Story
  Never underestimate your Clients'

 Complaint, no matter how funny it might
 seem! This is a real story that happened
 between the customer of General Motors And its Customer-Care
 Executive. Pls read
 on..... A complaint was received by the Pontiac
 Division of General
 Motors:'This
  is the second time I have written to you, and I don't
 blame you for Not
  answering me, because I sounded crazy, but it is a fact
 that we have a
 Tradition in our family of Ice-Cream for dessert after
 dinner each
 night, but the kind of ice cream varies so, every night,
 after we've
 eaten, the whole family votes on which kind of ice cream we
 should have
 and I drive down to the store to get it. It's also a
 fact that I recently purchased a New Pontiac and
 since then my trips to the store have created a
 problem...  You
  see, every time I buy a vanilla ice-cream, when I start
 back from the
 Store my car won't start. If I get any other kind of ice
 cream, the car
 Starts just fine. I want you to know I'm serious about
 this question, no
  Matter how silly it sounds, "What is there about a
 Pontiac that makes
 it not Start when I get vanilla ice cream, and easy to start
 whenever I
 get any Other
 kind?" The Pontiac President was
 understandably skeptical about
 theLetter, but sent an Engineer to check
 it out anyway.
  The
  latter was surprised to be greeted by a successful,
 obviously well
 Educated man in a fine neighborhood. He had arranged to meet
 the man
 just After dinner time, so the two hopped into the car and
 drove to the
 ice Cream store. It was vanilla ice cream that night and,
 sure enough,
 after They came back to the car, it wouldn't
 start. The
  Engineer returned for three more nights. The first night,
 they got
 Chocolate. The car started. The second night, he got
 strawberry. The car
  started. The third night he ordered vanilla. The car
 failed to start.
  Now the engineer, being a logical man,
 refused to believe that this man's car was allergic to
 vanilla ice cream. He arranged, therefore, to continue
 his visits for as long as it took to solve the problem. And
 toward this end  He began to take notes: He jotted down
 all sorts of data: time of day, type of gas uses, time to
 drive back and forth
 etc. In
  a short time, he had a clue: the man took less time to buy
 vanilla than
  Any other flavor. Why ? The answer was in the layout of the
 store.
 Vanilla, being the most popular flavor, was in a separate
 case at the front of the Store
  for quick pickup. All the other flavors were kept in the
 back of the
 store at a different counter where it took considerably
 longer to check
 outThe
 flavor. Now, the question for the Engineer was
 why the car wouldn't start when it took less time.
 Eureka - Time was now the problem - not the vanilla ice
 cream! The engineer quickly came up with the answer:
 "vapor
 lock".It
  was happening every night; but the extra time taken to get
 the other
 Flavors allowed the engine to cool down sufficiently to
 start.
  When the man got vanilla, the engine
 was still too hot
 for the vapor lock to
 dissipate. Even
  crazy looking problems are sometimes real and all problems
 seem to be
 simple only when we find the solution, with cool
 thinking. Don't just say it is
 "IMPOSSIBLE" without putting a sincere
 effort...
  What really matters is your attitude
 and your
 perception.