A lot was happening this week, with suggestions to have the PSX learn something from lawn mania, SMEs having a smug moment, Pakistan being treated like an uncool kid, and KFC trolling McDonalds. Ariba Shahid brings you all this and more in this week’s social media roundup.
You can’t sit with us
Pakistan : We have complied with more than 90 percent of the conditions. Take us out of the Grey List.
FATF: Absolutely not.
— Salman Masood (@salmanmasood) June 25, 2021
Remember when you were young and weren’t invited to sit with the cool kids. Well that’s Pakistan right now. Maybe next semester? To be fair and a little bit hopeful, some people do have glow ups later on and become cool. Those cases, however, are not that frequent and usually come as the result of making a conscious decision to improve. Many don’t. In the case of entire countries, well, let us just say they are a little more set in their ways and it takes a tad bit longer.
Fight for those stocks
Sana Safinaz pe discount milta hai tou poori qaum pahunch jati hai… PSX me discount milta hai tou poori qaum bhagti hai. Ajeeb hi scene hai.
— Azam A. Khan (@AzamAKhan2) June 28, 2021
Sales as clothing stores get pretty intense. Imagine how crazy the PSX would get if people flocked to open up accounts the same way they do at sales. But the PSX needs to make itself more approachable for that. Maybe change their colour scheme? Have more sales? Anything to have people rolling on the floor trying to tear some shares away from each other’s hands. Perhaps they should hand the PSX over to Sapphire for a couple of days.
KFC vs McDonalds
Could there be better trolling by KFC by super imposing a huge advert on one of McDonald’s most recognizable outlets in Karachi! pic.twitter.com/cngucCLn4y
— Adeel Azhar (@adeel_azhar) June 30, 2021
Don’t you just love it when corporations troll each other? This is one of our recent faves where KFC just made the first move. We’re interested to see what comes next from McDonalds. Although, McDonalds has stayed mum in the past over situations like this, particularly when KFC opened a branch close to McDonald’s in Lahore and put up signs on that road where McDonalds started that had an arrow and read “KFC ahead … Keep moving.”
Treat yourself
I do respect really rich dudes i.e. IKEA CEO travelling economy class. But if I had 1/500th of that dough, I would always fly business class and buy stupid things with my card in-flight
— Elon Mast (@HadesInShades) June 30, 2021
Austerity and humbleness is all great and dandy but sometimes you should just spoil yourself. Besides, you need to stay well rested and comfortable to stay fresh enough to make money. You definitely should get that upgrade to business class.
Win for SMEs
Hascol Company defaulted.
Banks that will incur loss on Hascol scandal
1. NBP – 18 Billion
2. HMB – 6 Billion
3. HBL – 5 Billion
4. BAFL – 4 Billion
5. MEBL – 5 Billion
6. Askari Bank – 4 Billion
7. DIB – 1.5 Billion
8. Silk Bank – 2 Billion— A.J (@AhmedWJanjua) July 2, 2021
You often hear people say that banks don’t loan out to SMEs and loan to big companies. This is a smug moment for all the SMEs. Will it stop banks from continuing their behaviour? Unlikely. No matter what they’re never wrong.
Pick up please
Tax on Calls
I dialed-in a Bank. Askd to select language; got 2 options; then 5 options, pressed 0 for dif query; waitd for 7min listening to Ads. Person at that end ran KYC 4 anothr 4min, thn system got stuck so 4min more; thn I ended a 15min call. Mobile bill up 25% 4 nothing!
— Khurram Schehzad (@kschehzad) June 30, 2021
Khurram Schehzad highlights two key issues. One, the new tax. Two, the fact that calling banks takes more than 5 minutes and is nothing but sheer torture.
Taxes keep taxin
Tax on calls over 5 min has created heated debate. ST said in an interview last night that a call over 5 min is قصے کہانیاں . But let’s agree on one thing: if work force, whether it is blue or white, uses work hours to make long personal calls then it must be discouraged. Period
— Najam Ali (@NajamAli2020) June 30, 2021
Gup shup is part of the job. Let people have their phone calls especially in a country where internet penetration is low. This tax is regressive towards the poor. We also condemn all of the fun being made at the expense of lovebirds who are in crisis after hearing the news that their late night phone calls will now be even more of an expense than they were before. Their problems are serious and should be taken so. We should also maybe pay some attention to those that don’t have the benefits of Whatsapp.
K electric with some poetry
We are sorry you have to go through this. At the same time dare we say:
“What are people if not the sum total of their memories?”
Thank you for including us in yours.
— KE (@KElectricPk) July 1, 2021
No tweet by K electric has ever been this beautiful. While its funny seeing corporate twitter accounts act like humans with their cheesy humor, seldom do we see anyone doing it so effortlessly.
Just read it again
Most funny thing happened in Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX). PSX sends notice to PSX asking PSX why PSX share price went up? Why PSX has not informed the PSX investors? PSX replied to PSX that PSX is not aware about any material development. pic.twitter.com/G0KmbKFpHM
— Usama Qureshi (@UsamaQureshy) June 30, 2021
Honestly, you’ll need to read the tweet at least twice to understand whats happened.
