Auditors...

I went to a function recently, which was for internal auditors of a particular bank. It was actually a four-day convention for the said auditors, but I was there on the first night for an ice-breaking session.

No, I'm not one of the auditors. Don't ask what I was there for.

Anyway, I was there with a few other non-auditors and we were pretty surprised by the cool responses we got from the auditors. Some people did come over to say hi to us, but the moment they found out we were not one of "their people", i.e. not auditors, they immediately turned their backs on us - some quite literally. It's as if they're blatantly saying, oh, obviously you're not important, so I don't need to waste my time sucking up to you. The only ones who were gracious enough to talk to us were people from the other countries. The snubs we got were from our own Malaysian people, and the Singaporean counterparts.

Made me almost glad I have no transactions whatsoever with the bank. I did have a credit card with them, but I cancelled it years ago (although there was still some issue about it for a while - I kept receiving statements for more than one year after the cancellation).

While we're on the subject of auditors, my school is currently being audited. There's a brief story to tell about it, actually, but I can't tell it yet lest I get the persons involved (and myself!) into trouble. I'll have to wait until it's actually safe to tell... probably after all the auditing books have been closed for the year.