2009/6/1 Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]> > Try to claim from them I guess? Or from most of the TPAs out there? You'll > soon learn that rules are on paper and meant to be interpreted in weird and > wonderful ways. Even if you pay online. > > The government owned banks / insurance providers screw you over far less > than the private ones do.
They did send someone to examine the vehicle and complete the paperwork. No experience with the claims yet. > Actually, for my LIC I just registered my policies online, and made a > payment or two online. Then after some time when I was passing by the area > where the LIC office was, I just handed them printouts from the > licindia.com online payment site - showing the policy registrations. And I > think also the original policies and some ID so they could crosscheck. Quite > legitimate that.. ensures that you didn’t screw up and enter someone else's > policy there. To be fair to LIC, they seem to have changed their systems recently. I was able to pay online without visiting a branch this year. However, I missed my due date last year and paid months later, with a fine, because I had no time to visit a branch or even figure out where it was. > Been working here (from home) for the past 8 years. And I think pulling a > few more work hours than you a week. Havent seen lost productivity yet. And > I'm paying stuff online (electricity and water utility bills, income tax, > property tax, etc) that I'd have to queue up for earlier. And I'm getting > my renewed passports sooner - and on time when they promise it, like a week > after I apply for them. Its getting better - possibly because I've seen > worse. I work from home now and am finding myself far more productive than I ever was before. And increasingly paying for more things online. Things are getting better -- but only in the last two years. I haven't had the benefit of concierge services anywhere I've worked at. If someone has them -- power to them. I know how much time and patience I've lost running around for such things when there were far more important things to attend to. Cheeni can attest to how much more he's suffered for this. Processes -- sure, they critical too, but all these systemic lapses slowing down day to day life _are_ process failures in other organisations. My productivity isn't a function of well defined processes in my organisation alone. -- Kiran Jonnalagadda http://jace.zaiki.in/
