Thursday, October 23, 2008

Story of a name card

Company A, one of the biggest companies in a city. Alex, an insurance agent, plans to introduce the policy to the officer. He is worry, but at last he decided to walk into the office. The officer is cool and don’t really want to entertain him.


“Who are you looking for?” Officer asks. “I am an insurance agent, and this is my name card” Alex passes his name card to the officer. “Insurance agent? You are the 4th one today! Thanks and I will consider later as I am busy now.” Alex does not think that he has a chance, so he leaves the office. He saw that the officer throws his name card to the dustbin. This is ridicules; Alex is very angry and walks back to the office. “Sorry, sir, if you do not plan to buy the insurance now, can I get back my name card?” The officer asks him why…


“Nothing special, just that I have my name and position on the name card, and I need it back.”


“I am sorry sir, your name card is dirty, and it is not suitable to return to you.”


“Can I have it back although it is dirty?” A moment later, the officer asks Alex how much he pay to print that name card. “50cents”


“ok,ok” The officer take out his wallet, and try to get the 50 cents, but he only manage to get the 1 dollar. “Alex, I am sorry, I don’t have 50 cents, and this is 1 dollar that I return for the name card, is it ok?”


Alex is very angry but he controls his angle and takes back the 1 dollar note. Besides, he returns the officer with another name card. “Sorry sir, I don’t have 50 cents either, and this name card is the changes I return back. This business is not suitable to throw into the dustbin, this name card too.


Alex makes his step out of the office immediately after the conversation.


3 days later, Alex received a call from the officer, ask him for a meeting. The officer tell him that he plans to buy insurance from him, and also buy insurance for all this staff.