Man Goes To SBI London Branch, Finds It Shut For Lunch Break; Netizens Can't Stop Joking About It
¡°Not the SBI in London shut at 1230 in the afternoon (lunch hour),¡± he tweeted with a picture of the building. In a subsequent tweet, he sarcastically added: ¡°Currently feeling very represented¡±.
If there is one bank which forms the bulk of memes on the internet, it is the State Bank of India (SBI). You are bound to find a meme somewhere on any social media platform about the bank and/or its services.
Getting anything done in a public sector bank in India is nothing short of a hassle. But this Indian multinational public sector bank is infamous for persistently asking its customers to get all their queries and issues solved only after the lunch hour.
Tweet on SBI London viral
While we thought this might be just a pan-India phenomenon turns out that we were wrong. Twitter user Abhay (@dammitabaiall) shared a picture of an SBI branch in London. It turns out that the branch was shut at 12:30 in the afternoon for its lunch hour.
The young man who is studying at King¡¯s College London was at a local SBI branch for some work and was left in disbelief seeing it closed during banking hours.
¡°Not the SBI in London shut at 1230 in the afternoon (lunch hour),¡± he tweeted with a picture of the building. In a subsequent tweet, he sarcastically added: ¡°Currently feeling very represented¡±.
not the SBI in london shut at 12:30 in the afternoon (lunch hour) pic.twitter.com/QgLPP8oC7E
¡ª abhay (@dammitabai) June 9, 2022
Twitter on fire
The tweet created a buzz on the social media platform, getting attention from many desi folks around the country, who joined the conversation by quoting Amitabh Bachchan¡¯s iconic line from Mohabbatein, ¡°Parampara. Pratishtha. Anushasan.¡±
not the SBI in london shut at 12:30 in the afternoon (lunch hour) pic.twitter.com/QgLPP8oC7E
¡ª abhay (@dammitabai) June 9, 2022
The laughing fest continues...
Lovely. You can move out of India but India can never move out of you. ? https://t.co/uDDXSZnpF4
¡ª no. (@thisisajokeokay) June 10, 2022
NGL if internet didn't exist I wouldn't have known SBI even existed in London. https://t.co/uFIMOcpjv0
¡ª tithi trashcan (@titsandbitss) June 10, 2022
Living up to the expectations
¡ª Teja (@GoneSpeaks) June 10, 2022
Consistency is very important.
¡ª Anish Kochar (@anish_kochar) June 9, 2022
Many said, nothing wrong in it
And even though jokes continued, many said there is nothing wrong in taking a lunch break and even people working in banks are humans who deserve to eat without being stuck to their desks.
Great! Unless we expect them to eat cheque leaflets and continue working. Everyone should take off from work to eat.
¡ª BilluKePapa (@PuneetBishnoi) June 10, 2022
What do you want?? Bank employees shouldn't have lunch, just because you can't reach on proper time?? ?
¡ª Mallik Mohammed Mahboob (@IncMallik) June 11, 2022
And people here acting like they never eat lunch¡ #shameful
¡ª smiley_here12 (@smiley_here12) June 10, 2022
Many highlighted that lunch breaks are common in banks even in foreign countries, but the only problem is sometimes it gets dragged far beyond the stipulated time.
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