Anyone here working at Barclays?

[DaveB]

It's so bloody annoying!

Will be even more annoying when you try and use the cash machines, and the branches are all shut so you can't even cash a cheque.

[TimberWolf]

Seems like everything in Britain is broke.

[cailin maith]

Will be even more annoying when you try and use the cash machines, and the branches are all shut so you can't even cash a cheque.

Luckily, it gave me cash earlier - some people were pretty unhappy in the branch though...

[TimberWolf]

Why do people stick with Barclays anyway? They have a reputation for being the most ruthless bank at ripping off their customers, they outsource to India, offer poor savings rates, etc. I've only stuck with them because I've always been with them, although I also have a First Direct account that I'm starting to use more often. First Direct's telephone and on-line banking seem pretty good and Anglo Saxon.

[DimPrawn]

More people get divorced in the UK every year than change their banks.

[Menelaus]

More people get divorced in the UK every year than change their banks.

Scary.

In 2000 we started the battle against current account inertia and it's still being fought.

</wanders off, shaking head>

[Board Game Geek]

Mich Posted : Sounds familiar. I was once dispatched to a nameless but very big telecoms provider's datacentre in the middle of the night as their billing system had failed and they needed the back up tape. Someone in the arctic north of Friesland had 'lost the tapes', and I was the only person who the management could get on the phone who had access to the place and wasn't a total moron. I drove 3 hours through the snow in the middle of the night, arrived at the data centre and found the tapes within 2 minutes, lying among some empty pizza boxes in the corner of some permy's room.

I'd love to have been a fly on the wall, Mich. I bet the air turned blue !

[Alf W]

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Barclays IT staff were shocked to receive an emailed warning today that more jobs are likely to be lost at the troubled department.

The department lost 700 staff last year in a round of layoffs as part of a planned cut of 1,800 staff by 2011. Then in January Barclays laid off 400 people whose "roles and responsibilities are unclear". These losses were split - 150 were permanent posts and 250 were contractors.

This time an email, signed by IT boss Jim Ditmore along with Suresh Viswanathan and Ah Boon Lee, warns that Barclays "Global Retail and Commercial Banking" relies on effective technology to drive its growth.

So 'New Boys', now you maybe have some more clarity on what the 400 people you were 'unclear' about what they did, actually did in the department that actually runs your IT day to day.

Barclays currently has a fairly knee-jerk culture to 'incidents' so it will be interesting to see who gets fired - and heads will roll for this one.

[TimberWolf]

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So 'New Boys', now you maybe have some more clarity on what the 400 people you were 'unclear' about what they did, actually did in the department that actually runs your IT day to day.

Barclays currently has a fairly knee-jerk culture to 'incidents' so it will be interesting to see who gets fired - and heads will roll for this one.

Well they never went to meetings. Just seemed to sit at their desks engrossed in nothing much to do with important stuff like managing and charts, just technical carp. Clearly they had to go.

[Cyberman]

Move to First Direct and you will find a much better service.