PART A:
I joined IMT on June 6th, 2019 and had started just to adjust myself to the happening B-school environment, leaving behind the pressure cooker situations of professional life. Having poured all my family’s savings to get an MBA education, we were heavily hit by financial burden. Only a few days had past for me in college, I get a call from my neighbors (from my hometown in Kolkata) that my father had an attack of Cardiac Arrest.
I rushed back home the same night, keeping in touch with my neighbours (my father lives alone) and to my relief, his condition had improved and was resting. Then it hit me regarding the hospital bills, which we were in no position to pay upfront. Luckily just a few months back, I had convinced my father to get health insurance (from n agent), and by coincidence, he had got Aditya Birla Life Insurance (which had cashless policy, but I had firm doubts that whether hospitals accept that).
After a week, my father was discharged and when I went to make the payment (taken from a friend), they asked me whether we had an Insurance. I casually told them that I had an AB Insurance (pretty sure they were least interested).
To my surprise, I did not have to pay a single penny, and that was the moment when I realised the ABG group had played in my life- Guardian Angel, and this is for me the impact of ABG.
PART B:
Before pursuing my MBA, I was working for an private LPG Company. During my initial days, due to immense pressure from the market (I was into Channel Management) I broke down and had decided to quit my job. I could never figure out how being an engineer, I could carry on this profile- my dealers did not respect me, I was battered around due to performance and had finally decided to quit.
I confided in my manager (more like a Guardian angel), who listened to me and said to me one thing- “You are quitting because you feel people do not respect you, but will your decision improve your self-respect?”.
I decided to try once more, I tried passionately and in 2017 I won the Best Employee Award (an IPAD) and was recommended by the Indian Management to represent the Indian subsidiary at their Global Leadership Program in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
