Bankers Joke

One day, three bankers, a Citibanker, one from HSBC
and another from
Maybank, went for a walk. They were old buddies from
school, and they
were
remembering the tough old days they went as students
together.

For no apparent reason, they went into a zoo and
passed an elephant.

Being from the same field and the same school, there
is little bit of
peer
competition going on, so when he saw this elephant,
an idea clicked the
Citibanker, he said to the others “Why don’t we
prove who is the best
among
us?”.

The others, of course, agreed.

Then the Citibank said “Let’s make a test. Whoever
can make this
elephant
laugh, he works for the best Bank”.

They all agreed and started.

Being a pure logical strategist, the Citibanker
tried to make the
elephant
laugh by telling jokes (In this story, the elephant
do understand the
language, boleh la). Of course it stayed still.

As a more practical guy, the HSBC guy tried to make
funny gestures…and
the elephant still stood firm.

Now, it?s the Maybanker turn. Being the tomorrow
-can- do- it guy, he
whispered something to the elephant, and it laughed
at him while
pointing
its trunk at him. The other two were astonished.

How come this Maybanker beat them?

So the HSBC guy said “OK, let’s make another test.
Let’s make this
elephant
cry”.

So there they went again.

The Citibanker told sad stories,

The HSBC guy made sad gestures,

and they fail again.

Then, the Maybanker whispered something again in the
elephant’s ear and
it
just cried, weeping and patting away.

This can’t be, thought the other two.

So the Citibanker said “OK, you’ve won twice. If you
can win this test,
we
will bow to you. Let’s make this elephant run”.

He went and barked to the elephant orders to run. Of
course, it stayed
still.

The HSBC guy pushes the elephant and stabs it with
stake to make it run,
it
stayed still.

So…our Maybanker comes to it and whispers
something again in its ear
and
the elephant ran and ran as fast as it could, as if
it was scared to
death.

The other two surrendered.

“OK, you’re the best, pal. You work for a very good
Bank; not even our
global bankers can beat you. Do tell us your
secret”.

“Well” said the Maybanker

“The first time I made it laugh, I said “Maybank is
the best bank “.

“When I made it cry, I told the elephant how much I
get paid”.

“And when I made it run scared to death, I said to
it,

“Why don’t you join Maybank?”