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Post by steppenwolf on Jul 26, 2023 12:00:29 GMT
The interesting thing about this is that the management of Nat West (and Coutts) seem to be completely ignorant of banking. This first became apparent when some of our banks nearly went bust in 2007/8. I remember when various directors of these banks were called before the Treasury Select Committee and asked some very simple questions - like what's the capitalisation of your bank. None of them had a clue about any of the questions.
But the management are no better now. They're just selected by slightly different criteria. They're now selected on the basis of "Equality, Diversity and Inclusion". If their views on this are "acceptable" to the woke Lefties who run the country then that's OK. Any understanding of banking - or even the ethics of banking - appears to be irrelevant.
We never seem to learn.
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Post by johnofgwent on Aug 11, 2023 15:22:32 GMT
I remember the day barclays decided sub orime banking was no longer for them
They shut the phone lines, ordered buses to take the call centre staff to a big meeting and called us IT guys to it
On the way up the stairs one of the managers behind me said to another ‘i guess they’ve finally sorted out the pay rises’ …
As the IT guy creating the Management Info reports i was i admit uniquely placed to see the way the business was tanking but it did concern me few others had any idea …
I remember after the announcement one of the rebrokering company MD’s PA’s was in tears and almost robotically walked with me as i went straight from the meeting where we’d been told we were UB40 into the HQ Cafeteria.
It was 12:15 and i proceeded to order a load of stuff.
Lara, fighting back the tears, said ‘how could i eat at a time like this’
I replied ‘because this will be my fifth P45 since my first job and none my fault. Trust me updating the CV is easier after a decent lunch’ …..
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