Maybank or Bumibank?
Again, Malaysia went 'famous' just because it's largest bank(however you wanna call it) declared that it now require all that law firms must have a 'bumiputra' partner with at least a 50% stake before they could do any business with the bank. Discrimination, arrogant and ungrateful are the words that I have for this bank.
I thought all these while the people have been thought to spend more effort in building self competency and companies to work hard in order to complete globally?...Capability, integrity, efficiency and merit if you ask me are the main criterias to consider when I want to do business with someone and surely not the race. Most of us are Malaysians, born and live here since independance....living peacefully in a multiracial country is something we're proud of...at least today we are.
Then all the sudden came a bank who without thinking implemented such rigid and ridiculous rule in the midst of the Gov's effort to build unity in the Malaysian people... even simple civilians who never had a chance to be educated knows how important it is for someone with a high place in the community to think before he says anything. For words spoken are hard to be taken back... it reveals the intention and the perception of that person.
Having said that, now I'm pretty sure we now know this bank's view on the people of this country.In short, if Maybank thinks that it's so darn big and powerful that is does not need contribution/business from other races in this country apart from 'bumiputra'. I say, go ahead and implement it....
I bet that when all the non-'bumiputras' withdraw their commitment with this bank...It's guaranteed that this arrogant bank will move from being the largest bank to the smallest(only if it's able to survive) in a relatively short time.Now to the 'ingenious' management of this bank who came out with that foolish decision, please use your head and think before you implement anything in future.
There's a saying, "There is pride before downfall". God gives us a head to think and not for fun! For if you don't need them, you won't have them.
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THIS IS THE BEST POSTING I EVER READ READ FOR A LONG TIME.
TIME TO TEACH BIG AND ARROGANT MAYBAN A LESSON. FORCE THEM DOWN TO THEIR KNEES FORCE THEM TO BEG FOR FORGIVENESS
LET MAKES AN EXAMPLE OUT OF MAYBAN SO THAT OTHER BANKS (LIKE AMBANK)AND OTHER CORPORATIONS WILL IMMEDIATELY SCRAP ALL THEIR DISCRIMINATIVE POLICIES.
LETS ALL THE RIGHT THINKING AND FAIR MALAYSIAN WHICH FORM THE MAJORITY OF MALAYSIAN MAKE A CONCERTED EFFORTS TO UNITE AND WITHDRAW OUR SUPPORT FOR MAYBAN. LETS US WITHDRAW OUR MONIES FROM THIS ARROGANT BANKS. IF WE HAVE MAYBAN CREDIT CARDS - DO CUT THEM INTO TWO AND SEND THEM BACK TO MAYBAN. IF WE HAVE FACILITIES FROM MAYBAN - SERIOUSLY THINK OF MOVING IT TO OTHER BANKS (BUT NOT AMBANK UNLESS THEY ALSO DROPS THEIR DISCRIMINATIVE POLICY).
LET US SUPPORT ANY BANK WHICH TREAT ALL MALAYSIA EQUALLY.
LET BRING MAYBAN TO ITS KNEE - WE WANT MAYBAN TO PUBLICLY APOLOGISE TO ALL MALAYSIAN FOR HAVING DISCRIMINATIVE POLICIES AND GIVE A PUBLIC COMMITMENT THAT THEY WILL NEVER HAVE ANY DISCRIMINATIVE POLICY ANY MORE.
DO IT NOW - AND LATEST BEFORE THE END OF MAY. WE WANT IT TO SHOW IN MAYBAN'S NEXT QUARTER RESULTS.
LETS US ALSO STOPP SUPPORTING MAYBAN SHARES. SELL ALL YUOUR MAYBAN SHARES IF HAVE THEM. IF NOT, DO NOT BUY ANY MAYBAN SHARES. LET IS DROP LIKE FLIES!!!!!!!
TOGETHER WE UNITE TO RISE AGAINST AND DEFEAT ALL EVILS!!!!
THIS IS THE BEST POSTING I EVER READ READ FOR A LONG TIME.
TIME TO TEACH BIG AND ARROGANT MAYBAN A LESSON. FORCE THEM DOWN TO THEIR KNEES FORCE THEM TO BEG FOR FORGIVENESS
LET MAKES AN EXAMPLE OUT OF MAYBAN SO THAT OTHER BANKS (LIKE AMBANK)AND OTHER CORPORATIONS WILL IMMEDIATELY SCRAP ALL THEIR DISCRIMINATIVE POLICIES.
LETS ALL THE RIGHT THINKING AND FAIR MALAYSIAN WHICH FORM THE MAJORITY OF MALAYSIAN MAKE A CONCERTED EFFORTS TO UNITE AND WITHDRAW OUR SUPPORT FOR MAYBAN. LETS US WITHDRAW OUR MONIES FROM THIS ARROGANT BANKS. IF WE HAVE MAYBAN CREDIT CARDS - DO CUT THEM INTO TWO AND SEND THEM BACK TO MAYBAN. IF WE HAVE FACILITIES FROM MAYBAN - SERIOUSLY THINK OF MOVING IT TO OTHER BANKS (BUT NOT AMBANK UNLESS THEY ALSO DROPS THEIR DISCRIMINATIVE POLICY).
LET US SUPPORT ANY BANK WHICH TREAT ALL MALAYSIA EQUALLY.
LET BRING MAYBAN TO ITS KNEE - WE WANT MAYBAN TO PUBLICLY APOLOGISE TO ALL MALAYSIAN FOR HAVING DISCRIMINATIVE POLICIES AND GIVE A PUBLIC COMMITMENT THAT THEY WILL NEVER HAVE ANY DISCRIMINATIVE POLICY ANY MORE.
DO IT NOW - AND LATEST BEFORE THE END OF MAY. WE WANT IT TO SHOW IN MAYBAN'S NEXT QUARTER RESULTS.
LETS US ALSO STOPP SUPPORTING MAYBAN SHARES. SELL ALL YUOUR MAYBAN SHARES IF HAVE THEM. IF NOT, DO NOT BUY ANY MAYBAN SHARES. LET IS DROP LIKE FLIES!!!!!!!
TOGETHER WE UNITE TO RISE AGAINST AND DEFEAT ALL EVILS!!!!
Well said Toebear...
Such bank is ungrateful and they way they think disgust me....Let's cut all ties with Maybank. I have just closed both my accounts and credit cards with them... the officer looked kinda shock... I wonder why?.. :P
Hi Toebar Salaute!
I think all bloggers who are patriotic Malaysian should highlight the discrminative policy of Mayban (and AmBank). Toebear your are definitely a patrioat and I (bear) witness to that!
All readers - lets us all do our part to ask all bloggers to have a special message dealing with Maynban's discriminative policy posted i their blogs.
Maybe all right thinking Malaysian should be asked to seriously consider whether they want to continue banking with such a Bank.
Should we not make out voices heard loud and clear. Should we not seriously consider withdrawing all our monies from Mayban (and AmBank), cut their credit cards into two and returned to them, turn down all their offer of banking facilities and switch our banking facilities to banks which do not practise discriminative policies? Should we not deliver this strong message to Mayban (and AmBank) in such a loud voice to be heard also by others who are practising or intend to practise discriminative policies - so they will stop such disgusting policies?
Think about it and let all of us who belong to the group of right thinking Malaysian highlight and create an action group to fight discriminative policies being practice by any parties.
Consider pls!!!!!
No business for Maybank.
The article below was written by Patrick Teoh in his blog "Niamah!!".
After reading this article do consider whether we all should all followed Patrick Teoh when he said :-
"I will never use Maybank services. And I think you shouldn't either. But then I know...aiyah! troublesome la want to change bank account. Somemore they got so many branches ma. So easy for me lor. Hiyah! Waffor want to worry la. Can't do anything anyway what."
The full article is as follow:-
Friday, May 11, 2007
Somebody F***ed up. Big time!!!
Adam: Alright, who f**ked up this time?
NIAMAH!!!
Whoever believes that crime does not pay should not live in Malaysia. I consider the latest Maybank scandal an out and out criminal act. There's no other way to describe it. But whoever committed the crime appears to be getting away scot-free.
Okay, for those of you who've been sleeping or been apathetic as usual or been abroad and out of Internet reach in Siberia here's a little background to what took place about a week ago.
Maybank, the country's biggest bank announced that for legal firms to do business with it the firms must have at least 3 Bumiputra partners. One of whom must own no less than 50% equity in the firm. Of course, when the announcement went public the shit hit the fan. As it should.
Muhibbah, right? One for all and all for one, right? Racial integration, right? Fair play, right? Wrong! These are the rules. So there!
The legal profession went berserk. Some of the Malaysian rakyat, those who weren't sleeping or been properly trained as sheep, thought, "What the hell???!!!"
And then the usual talking heads realised..."Eh? Somebody screwed up big time la." Shit!" Then they all came out and made...statements. Even went up to the cabinet at a meeting chaired by the Prime Minister who wasn't opening a restaurant or looking at kebayas that day. And they all echoed the usual, "No cannot!"
And then some really funny stuff came forth from the mouths of some of these trained sheep. Ng Yen Yen, the deputy finance minister was reported as questioning the bank's move as firms that provided the best professional services should be the criteria for selection. Where's Yen Yen been living all these years? The moon?
Hishammuddin Hussein, I'm not sure with or without the keris this time, thought he was being smart when he used another racialistic argument against a racialistic decision. He said that in multi-racial Malaysia every small thing could become sensitive. Hello, Hisham you're not always going to be able to scare us with mentions or veiled references to May 13, 1969 you know. So what? So we should keep quiet and let you sweep this shit under the carpet because you scare us with this May 13 riots and bloodshed memory? This isn't about small things becoming sensitive. This is about a major f**k up that somebody needs to answer for. Okay, I'm waiting for you or one of your cabinet colleagues to pull out the ever useful "rights enshrined in the Constitution" gambit. With bated breath.
Hisham, I choose to believe that us Malaysians are smart enough to know that the only way we can prosper is to live and work together as one nation.
It's been days since the shit hit the fan but do you notice something? No names have ever been mentioned. It's always Maybank did this Maybank shouldn't have done that. So? So who the f**k is Maybank? Who in Maybank was responsible for making the decision to discriminate so blatantly? Was it the chairman? The board of directors? Some senior manager? Maybank made a decision which means someone signed on the dotted line knowing full well what he/she was doing. Right? So how come, the cabinet, the Prime Minister and all the assorted bunch of politicians are busy making statements and excuses but nobody has ever mentioned a name from Maybank who signed the directive?
This makes an ordinary, tax-paying member of the rakyat like me very suspicious. Was this a government decision that went horribly wrong? Was some bigshit...sorry I meant bigshot...in Maybank trying to covertly sabotage the government's plans? Was this discrimination something that's been happening all along and that this was just a cat out of the bag situation? How are we going to trust each other ever again? How are we to believe the government's plans for racial integration are even real?
But already the coverage of this Maybank thing is losing steam in the mainstream media. The flers from BN will make some more statements. Maybe fire some fireworks in celebration of some Visit Malaysia Year biggest, longest, stupidest 'achievement' and soon we will all forget and go back to our apathetic lives.
But today I am one really unhappy Malaysian. I am unhappy that something like this could happen. I am unhappy that so many of my friends don't seem to think that this is a big deal. I am unhappy that I am being patronised by the very people who should be accountable to me for f**k ups like this. I am unhappy that everybody is talking and nobody is being held accountable or responsible. Not the finance minister. Not Bank Negara. Not Maybank.
I will never use Maybank services. And I think you shouldn't either. But then I know...aiyah! troublesome la want to change bank account. Somemore they got so many branches ma. So easy for me lor. Hiyah! Waffor want to worry la. Can't do anything anyway what.
Okay, you like the shit hole you're living in you can stay in it. I'm not going to.
Niamah!!!
posted by patrickteoh at 3:59 PM 0 comments
What Patrick mentioned is valid and realistic. We know very well that Maybank is a Gov-led bank. so is who authorize for such rule to be passed down in the first place is although vague but clear to many... i suggest we discontinue all our business dealings with this bank for the sake of our future.
when someone try to be 'funny' with us, we give them what they deserve.
Greatest Toebear,
Make sure that we keep this topic alive as long as possible. Lets hope there are more people out there like us - PATRIOTIC MALAYSIAN - who walk the talk.
Kenneth, thanks for your support.
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