12 January 2021

An example of digital inefficiency

It is common logic that educated senior citizens prefer online transaction for shopping and paying bills. Thanks to our Governments' initiatives. But unfortunately the aims are not achieved if the staff at online payment agencies including banks are inefficient and insensitive to customer needs. One perfect and recurrent example is my savings account in the bank, which I use, for my shopping and bill payment needs.

As I find it difficult to make my daily morning coffee, I buy the ready made Amul Kool Cafe for the past two years. I place order once every month. Usually fund transfer to the vendor and delivery to my apartment is not much of a problem. But some times, it is, and frustratingly so, like this evening. 

I had to struggle for nearly two hours to make the payment just because of very substandard online fund  transfer system at the bank. I think that inefficient staff in banks should be dismissed. 

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I am a retired K-12 Education Management Professional. I have worked at different levels in K-12 school systems, textbook publishing, elearning and Education NGOs. I have held memberships in The Association for Science Education (UK), American Association of Physics Teachers and The Malaysian Institute of Physics. I hold a 1st class B Sc Degree in Physics followed by B Ed [English and Physical Science] and M A [Childcare and Education] degrees. My published works include 59 articles in teacher development magazines in India and the US and a book entitled `Creative Classrooms and Child Friendly Schools' (listed in Amazon). This book is almost an anecdotal account of my professional experience in six countries (including Cambodia where I worked as Technical Adviser to the Ministry of Education, Youth And Sports). I served as mentor in the Certificate of Teaching Mastery Program offered by Teachers Without Borders.