VIP The bag that Blew Past.

The bag did not even survive its maiden journey: Very neat & light but did not reach the flight!

Least it could have done was to pass the security check...Dubai was still way to go! It broke down at Indira Gandhi International Airport.

In a stroller the champion of the cause is the the moving contraption. The rest of the parafernalia renders the stroller as useful (or useless) as another suitcase. Consider poor me carring a stroller all througout.

V.V. & Sons Dubai: It boasts of bags and is the sole contact point for guarantee for VIP in Dubai.

Yeah, you got it right. They don't repair them-they dont have the parts: and will not replace-They don't have the moolah.

Eventually the electronic medium:Bingo Again! The website of the company doesnot open... Guys, Isn't this the 21st century. Huh

I wrote an email to one of the IDs got a couple of responses: Sindhi/Gujju guy : and the bugger mailed from some hotmail.com of sorts: but again a Lull. I am still waiting for the storm.

Tata AIG Complaint : The Death of a Company

This company is surely dying but this is what I still think about it; inspite of the fact that I have moved on: Yes, moving on surely was both sided: I cannot deny the fact that Nagpur of all places was not so romantic-professionally, I mean. That's what somebody in the company wanted, not the company- as you would know as you read on. Then there was me looking for a job for over a year and having found two was deciding/negotiating in my own way. But that I was not indispsable was also a fact: This was not teh claims department where the market knew me by name-It was good old agency: Retail that is.
This is what sense I made about my company and following are a set of resignations from around my time and later.

What I like about my work place
1. This company cares about its people. As a Tata Company once you are in: You are family.
2. Also, the philosophy of the company is that ordinary people can perform extraordinary tasks when empowered and trained. 3. Training was top priority with the minimum benchmark being 5 training days per employee per year. Each month a training calender was circulated pan India and any one could attend the host of trainings developed by HR. HR was open to tailor make trainings if required.
4. Another aspect was that every one was accessible. Even afetr I left I needed explanation about my dues: I mailed and was mailed back- same day.
5. After I left for the Gulf, my dues came in without coercion.
6. The attitude of the top management was open and I could mail my MD also. Everyone was on a first name basis as is regular in US based companies(This is not the case with most of the other insurers).
7. Very strong branding: Self Explanatory
8. The company wanted employees to grow along with. So many people got oppurtuniotes to move abroad within the company. 9. Very strong internatinal partner in AIG as the world's biggest financial services provider
10. Flexibility: I was given the oppurtunity for a complete lateral shift to an unrelated department even while I had differences of opinion with my immediate supervisor.
11. Care: When I was leaving, VP HR called me from Mumbai to ask how I was feeling. All good things come to an end, but you relise their importance when you leave. It is not out nof place to state here that the top management philosophy drives a company and is reflected at the grass root level

What I didn't like about my work place
1. Very slow decision making 2. Due to excessive mutual confidence, many people/departments took their positions for granted 3. Some wrong people in the right places were driving their own lobby 4. Not very responsive to teh changing market trends 5. Lack of flexibility as per policies and compliance issues---------- Forwarded message ----------From: "Kumar, Gulshan" To: Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:48:02 +0800Subject: Bye-bye
Dear All,

I have decided to move ahead in my career and tomorrow will be my last working day with Tata Aig. It's been a great journey of six years with the company where I have a very enrich learning experience and enjoyed every day of my life.

I take the opportunity to thanks all my seniors and colleagues for their support, guidance and cooperation extended to me. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Parvathi mam for her constant guidance and mentoring which helped me to become a better professional and a good human being.

The most important thing I found here are the great colleagues who are now my best friends. I am taking away beautiful memories with me which I will cherish forever.

Once again thanks and all the best in your professional as well as personal life.

Regards,
Gulshan kumar
9811060170

---------- Forwarded message ----------From: "S, Krishnakumar" To: Agencyindia Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:42:55 +0800Subject: Farewell
Friends,
Today happens to be my last day with Tata AIG and I take this opportunity to thank each one of you for all the support and co-operation extended.
I would like to stay in touch and am thus enclosing my details as given below:
Tel - 09833054308
Email - kris_kum2003@yahoo.co.in

Regards
Krishnakumar



---------- Forwarded message ----------From: "Khanna, Deepti" To: "zzzKhanna, Deepti" Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:20:47 +0800Subject: Au - Revoir!

As I pen down my final email from this email id which has been my corporate identity for almost 7 years......in my heart runs a mixed feeling of joy and sorrow. JOY comes in from loads of memories of all good times and things this company has offered to me and SORROWS since this exciting chapter of my life now comes to end and gives way to another one to be written!!

In this journey with Tata AIG, I came across one of the finest professionals, motivators and leaders. This combination and selection of people is far too difficult for any company to attain.

Today, when I look back to identify names of all those mentors, coach and friends in this company who helped me to grow as an individual as well as a professional, the list seems endless......So I would like to thank each and every member and even Channel Partners of Tata AIG FAMILY for giving me the best of learning's and exposure. I am really thankful to this organization for imbibing me with strong foundation of ethical and right practices at work and ability to Savoir- Faire this erudition for lifetime.

Plus I want to express my sincere gratitude to you for being SUPERB COLLEGUE !!
Now its time for me to sail away on a brand new journey .......You can always reach me at my email Deepti.khanna8@gmail.com . My mobile number remains same i.e. 98999-66060.
Wish you all the very best and have a Happy Career!!








Deepti Khanna---------- Forwarded message ----------From: "Arora, Vijay" To: Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:00:34 +0800Subject: adieu
Dear Friends,


It's with both regret and anticipation, that I say goodbye.
After serving four years I have realized how difficult it is to part ways with every one who have been more then just colleagues to me.

I would like to thank all my superiors for their advise and co-operation that has groomed me to be a better professional, more so a better human being. All my colleagues proved the point that only true friends stand by you in your bad times. I could always count on them in times of despair and glory.

Delhi Team (My First home)-
It has been a great experience working with the Delhi Agency Team. There were ups and downs while building the team block by block but at last we were the winners. It was a great feeling to be associated with all of you. I thank all of you for being a part of my life.
Harbi (My Mentor)-
I take this opportunity to express my sincere thanks and gratitude to Harbi for all the unconditional support I got from him without which, I would not have been able to develop myself as a better insurance professional and a better human being.
Krishnan and Neel (My Gurus)-
You both have added value not just in tons of iron but carrots of gold to me.
As I take on a new responsibility, I wish you a healthy & prosperous time ahead.
My personal mail id is vijayaarora@yahoo.com

I remain

Vijay ---------- Forwarded message ----------From: "Bhardwaj, Vikas (Agency)" To: Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:56:47 +0800Subject: Never Say GOODBYE !!
Dear All,
Today "FRIDAY THE THIRTEENTH" is my last day in the Organisation, where I spent one of the most exciting and wonderful chapters in my life.
I take the opportunity to thank each one of you for all the support, guidance and co operation extended during my two and a half year journey at TATA AIG.
I take with me a lot of learnings, great memories and Wonderful Friends.
I wish all the very best to all af you in your Personal and Professional life. I would love to stay in Touch with all of you, My Contact details are given hereunder.
Thanks, Regards and BYE for now,
Vikas Bhardwaj
Mob No: 9811509585 E-mail- vikasbhardwaj01@hotmail.com ---------- Forwarded message ----------From: "Sawant, Mahesh" To: "'mahesh.sawant_01@indiatimes.com'" Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:34:23 +0800Subject: Goodbye

Hi,
As you might be aware, today is my last day at Tata AIG.
It was a pleasure to be associated with you and I take this opportunity to thank you personally for all the help & support extended to me during my tenure.
I sign off hoping that I have contributed to this great company in my own little ways…
I would love to be in touch with you. Please do write to me on my personal email id or feel free to call me anytime.
I wish you and your families very best in life!

Email -mahesh.sawant_01@indiatimes.com

Mobile- 93-222-888-36

Thanks!
Best Regards,
Mahesh S.
---------- Forwarded message ----------From: "Ganesan, Vaidyanath" To: Agencyindia , "Ramani, Ramesh" , "Bhatia, Venkatesh" , "Taneja, Ritesh" , "Sen, Aritra" , "Aroon, Sujatha" , "Panicker, Amrita" , "Iyer, Ramakrishna" , "Kundu, Ashok" Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:31:29 +0800Subject: Farewell
Dear All

This column has endeavored over the past one year brought to you news updates disguised as campaign updates and vice versa. This column has followed Kimi Raikkonen’s F1 victory last year via the Chak De IPA campaign; the stock market boom via the IPO campaign and Man U’s double victory through the Bangkok Auto campaign. Its time for the columnist to turn over a new leaf/page and this time he falls short of words.

Friends, today happens to be my last day with TATA AIG and I thank all of you for support and feedback extended. Handling Giant Steps program has been a privilege for me and I wish to thank Harbi for the same; Ramesh for excellent inputs; Ritesh for an RPU perspective and City Agency Managers for prompt feedback. I would like to stay in touch and am thus enclosing my co-ordinates below.

E-mail – vaidyanath_ganesan@lycos.com
Ph – 9820475482

May we live in interesting times. Adieu.



Regards

Vaidyanath
---------- Forwarded message ----------From: "Kahlon, Harinderpal" To: "Gupta, Mridul" , "zzzAgarwal, Gaurav" , "Chaudhary, Pankaj" , "Mahajan, Somesh" , "Pal, Abhishek" , "Kumar, Ajeet" , "Kumar, Akshey(Delhi)" , "Bhutani, Aman" , "Thakur, Ambika" , "Chadha, Amit" , "Mahendru, Amit" , "Singh, Amit" , "Brahmbhatt, Anil" , "Pandita, Anita" , "Chatrath, Ankur" , "Arora, Ansh" , "Ganesh, Anuradha" , "Gautam, Ashima" , "Verma, Ashish(India)" , "Arora, Atul" , "Chandel, Bhupendra" , "Grover, Chandan" , "Majorwar, Chandan" , "Gaurishankar, Dalai" , "Bharij, Deepankar" , "Rawat, Deepika" , "zzzKhanna, Deepti" , "Sharma, Dharmesh" , "Dham, Dinesh" , "Kumar, Dinesh1" , "Nanda, Dipanker" , "Anand, Ditesh" , "zzzAgarwal, Gaurav" , "Kumar, Gulshan" , "zzzKahlon, Harinderpal" , "Singh, Hitendra" , "Tripathi, Jai" , "Dev, Kapil" , "Jain, Kavita" , "Sareen, Kranti" , "Sharma, Kuldeep" , "Raghavan, Lalitha" , "Jain, Lokesh" , "Bansod, Madhuri" , "Chaudhary, Mahipal" , "Bachher, Mandeep (Delhi)" , "Gupta, Manish" , "Pandey, Manish(Gurgaon)" , "Kaushik, Manu" , "Sodhi, Manveer" , "Wasi, Mohd Azhar" , "Malhotra, Mohit" , "Sharma, Mohit1" , "Sinha, Moitree" , "Gupta, Mridul" , "Bhargava, Nalin" , "Thakur, Navdeep" , "Chhikara, Naveen" , "Tyagi, Neeraj" , "Garg, Neha" , "Batra, Nidhy" , "Malhotra, Nishant (A&H)" , "Sasidharan, Nishant" , "Shukla, Nishant" , "Malik, Nitin" , "Chaudhary, Pankaj" , "Rai, Pankaj" , "Verma, Pankaj" , "Singh, Parvathi" , "Dayal, Pranav" , "Kumaraswamy, Prasanna" , "Mulasi, Prashant" , "Sahni, Puneet" , "Arora, Rachit" , "Verma, Rachna" , "Sharma, Rahul" , "Jha, Rajeev" , "Konar, Rakhi" , "Imam, Rana" , "Chowdhury, Rashmi" , "Saini, Ravinder" , "Gupta, Ritesh" , "Chugh, Rohit" , "Kathuria, Rohit" , "Walia, Rohit" , "zzzSingh, Rupendra" , "zzzKapoor, Sachin" , "Bhagat, Sanjay" , "Saxena, Sanjay" , "Bharadwaj, Sanjeev" , "Pandey, Satyendra" , "Chawla, Seema (Delhi)" , "Vashisht, Seema" , "Ali, Shahid" , "Wanchoo, Shivkumar" , "Krishan, Shri" , "Virmani, Shweta" , "Anand, Siddhartha" , "Ratnakar, Smriti" , "Mahajan, Somesh" , "Jha, Subhashchand" , "Jha, Sudhir" , "Sharma, Sugandha" , "Sabharwal, Sumit" , "Tandon, Surabhi" , "Suri, Surekha" , "Alagh, Tarun" , "Garg, Tarun" , "Mukherjee, Udayan" , "Adityakumar, V" , "Bhardwaj, Vaibhav" , "Kaushik, Vidula" , "Ahuja, Vijay" , "Bagai, Vikas" , "zzzBhardwaj, Vikas (Agency)" , "Kumar, Vikas" , "Bist, Vikramsingh" , "Joshi, Vinay" , "Kumar, Vipan" , "zzzMathur, Vishal" , "Sharma, Yatharth" Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 17:25:26 +0800Subject: Bid adieu
At the close of office hours today, I put down my pen marking an end of my two and half year tenure with Tata AIG. I have decided to move on and pursue my career elsewhere

Today is my last day at TATA-AIG. I've so enjoyed working with such a tight-knit, devoted group and am so pleased to have had the opportunity to be a part of such a group. The time that I have spent at TATA-AIG has given me lot of opportunities, challenges, joys, learning, good friends and fond memories that I will always cherish.
I'd like to thank you all for the support, guidance and encouragement that you have provided me during my time at TATA-AIG. I've always been impressed with the way that all of you have supported me, without which I would not have reached where I am today.
Even though I will miss my colleagues and the company, I am looking forward to a new challenge and to starting a new phase of life.As I move towards a new phase of my life, the good ol' times of my stay here will remain etched in my memory forever.
My Phone no remains the same 9899999244 & e-mail ID is Harinderpal.kahlon@gmail.com
Regards
Harinderpal Kahlon
Property Insurance
TATA AIG Gen Ins Co Ltd
Lotus Tower NFC, N.Delhi-25
+91-9899999244
---------- Forwarded message ----------From: "Singh, Rupendra" To: "Bhardwaj, Neelmani" , "Ramani, Ramesh" , "Bhutani, Harbinder" Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:40:55 +0800Subject: Its time to say GOODBYE- R.P.Singh
Dear All,

Its time to say goodbye.

My brief association with TATA-AIG has given me privilege to share knowledge and experience with all across.

My sincere thanks to Neelmani, Ramesh & Harbi for supporting me all thru.

I also thank Vikas Kumar and Mandeep for timely guidance and supports as and when required.

I extend thanks to Somesh & his team, Vikas & his team, Vinay & his team, Rohit & his team, Pankaj & his team, Deepti, Rachna, Moitree, Sugandha & her team and Sushma Mathew for supports given time to time.

Please accept my best wishes for each one of you for a successful career ahead.

Although my contact details will remain in your inbox only but still I am taking this privilege by leaving my contact details for you all as under:

E-mail- rupendra.singh@rediffmail.com
Ph. 09313899191

My thanks to Branch heads also.

Thanks again to all of you.

Regards,

Rupendra Pratap Singh
Manager-Agency Operations-Education Segment
TATA AIG General Insurance Company Ltd.
Ph.011-66563689(O), 9999882869, 9313899191