RBS 'Computer Glitch'

[EternalOptimist]

Sorry, don't understand the question.

In my experience banks have file transfers flying around between systems all over the place, even within the bank.

file transfers ?? jeez.


this sounds like a heap of sh1te to moi

i'll stick to my little world of vb and odbc and leave the big stuff to youse guys

[mudskipper]

More from the Wail

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2165765/The-real-scandal-RBS-sacked-thousands-British-workers--sent-jobs-abroad.html

[Diver]

My NatWest accounts are back to normal today

[MarillionFan]

My NatWest accounts are back to normal today

Well as least something is.

[doodab]

Such outsourcing is a betrayal of the UK — and a lethal blow to our ambition to be a modern, technology-savvy economy capable of competing with the rest of the world.
If the failure of RBS’s systems sends out a message, it is that major firms in strategically important areas must stop going for the cheapest option overseas and where possible bring jobs home so we can begin to restore the nation’s prosperity at a time of unprecedented hardship.

I never thought I'd say this, but bravo for the Daily Mail. Let's hope Cable & Cameron are listening...

[mudskipper]

I never thought I'd say this, but bravo for the Daily Mail. Let's hope Cable & Cameron are listening...

If you think what happened to manufacturing in the UK, it's largely equivalent to what's now happening with IT. It's cheaper overseas.

Hopefully this problem will at least slow the tide. It would be a brave bean counter who suggested outsourcing IT to his board of directors today.

[bobspud]

If you think what happened to manufacturing in the UK, it's largely equivalent to what's now happening with IT. It's cheaper overseas.

Hopefully this problem will at least slow the tide. It would be a brave bean counter who suggested outsourcing IT to his board of directors today.

There's an unpredictable streak to this mess...

I read a bid strategy this week for a managed service deal over 18 months with loaded costs at the front of the deal to guarantee a reduction in costs for the last quater...
This was done at the request of the finance guys... They are actively manipulating the books. They know what they are buying is wrong and not saving them money and they are still doing it...

So to the board of directors, its not financially viable it does not cut costs and will not really give them the service they need but my client still won the deal...

I have never hated old people before, but I am starting to think that if we don't get rid of the old farts and parasites at the top of our companies soon, we will be bankrupt and jobless as they swan into retirement with all the money...

[TimberWolf]

And yet if IT were a viable career in the UK, more people would be attracted to it and the wages come down. Offshoring/inshoring makes the few indigenous people remaining working a high price commodity.

[bobspud]

And yet if IT were a viable career in the UK, more people would be attracted to it and the wages come down. Offshoring/inshoring makes the few indigenous people remaining working a high price commodity.

No. Skill and experience makes it a high priced commodity... 90% of the population will never ever get IT or technology. Even if we moved every work shy slacker off benefits and into IT there would still only be the same number of employable people with a clue about what they are doing...

We have a generation of kids that are coming up that think that computer literate means using word... We will still have the same percentage of IT guys when my son starts work (another 10 years or more)

[adubya]

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cunning plan.

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