Banks and hours worked

[Ardesco]

Care to give us a bank name?


I worked for Barclays Investment Management about 6 years ago as a permie and it was a good place to work until they stopped authorising projects for a couple of months leaving us with nothing to do but thumb twiddling.

The ones I have heard are bad are Natwest and RBOS

[ASB]

but it was a crappy Russian bank, so it does not count.

Having been doing some EFT work in the workers paradise I just ask "is there any other kind?"

[Bovvered]

Care to give us a bank name?


I worked for Barclays Investment Management about 6 years ago as a permie and it was a good place to work until they stopped authorising projects for a couple of months leaving us with nothing to do but thumb twiddling.

The ones I have heard are bad are Natwest and RBOS

It's not BarCap!

[AtW]

Having been doing some EFT work in the workers paradise I just ask "is there any other kind?"

I don't know where you work but mine was much worse, it was small bank though so no politics - about only good thing. Would never work for a bank again - any bank regardless of rate.

[Ardesco]

It's not BarCap!

Investment Management was Barclays Private Clients, not Barclays Capital when I worked for them. Mind in a period of 3 months however there were endless reorganisations going on while I was there so it may be now...

[realityhack]

1) How many hours do you tend to work a day in this environment as a contractor?
2) If you happen to work more hours one day than you had expected, would you then work less hours another day?
3) Do you tend to just work the hours that the permanent staff around you work?
4) Is there some sort of unwritten etiquette about the above? I.e. a common theme accross all the main banks?

1) I have an 8hr day on contract - but when we're up against a launch/deadline this ramps up. Once I did a 16.5hr day.
2) Absolutely - just keep the management sweet and arrange it beforehand. After the 16.5 day I took 2 days off.
3) Normally just 1 hour over the permies. When times are rough they're the ones outta the door saying 'I'm only 9 to 5 according to my standard working times etc'.
4) You're expected to do the job. At the end of the day that's the only thing that matters to them. If you got a week's work done in a day, take 4 off, but call it 'working from home'.