with my insurance agent.
he found that i was cheating on him because i actually engaged another agent from the same company to get me additional policies to beef up my empty portfolio. well, to be frank, i did not plan to "dumb" him. in fact i was already planning to approach him but somebody cut in and sealed the deal instead. and as many of you already know, i am bad at saying no. so a series of events unfolded, and i ended up signing up with a random agent on the street - just like how i did with my ex-agent five years ago.
while he sounded terribly disappointed with my action, i wanted to tell him straight in his face that it was his own fault that he stood up on me twice in the four years that he tried to meet me. when he finally met me for the long overdue once-a-year servicing, i could sense that he has indeed become much more knowledgeable and established; but there was hardly any sincerity or human touch. you could say that in the past two months, i've met my new agent twice as many times as i've met him in all five years. so even though he may be a manager now with a huge clientele base and much more experience, i feel that the only customer service rendered were the annual christmas and birthday cards (probably written by his assistant). what a sad relationship.
so when he proposed for me to either transfer all my new policies to him, or for him to hand over my old policy to my new agent, i rang my new agent, and she was willing to take over my old policies. i doubt she would get any of the commission since most of the commission is handed out during the first few years of inception, but i won't be surprised if she had expected this to happen. you know, all's fair in love and war, and in the insurance industry.
but anyhow, i hope my agent doesn't chuck me aside the moment she gets her share of the pie. you could say that just like anyone else, i'm taking a gamble that the new relationship would be better than the last one. and i feel that it's going to be.
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