Hester remains adamant that it wasn't Bob's fault

**vetran** · 30 June 2012, 19:24

Lets hope the select committee ask the correct questions

'Who was at the tiller when the ship foundered?'
'Were they competent?'
'If so why did it happen?'
'Is the failure directly attributable to cost cutting?'
'If you hadn't offshored would the error be less likely to have occurred?'

**TimberWolf** · 30 June 2012, 20:43

What % of IT staff are ICT Bobs at RBS anyway?

**TimberWolf** · 2 July 2012, 08:37

Bump for a few more polsters.

**Doggy Styles** · 2 July 2012, 09:10

Reading some stuff over the weekend, it seems that Hester is being disingenuous.

As I understand it, the system maintenance might be done in the UK, but the batch schedules themselves, where the problems occurred, are down to Bob.

Is that correct?

**BoredBloke** · 2 July 2012, 09:52

What percentage of the staff in Edinburgh are Bobs they have flown over? I worked for Bangalore Telecom in Leeds on their bit of connecting for health and BT had a load of TechM Bobs that they had brought in. Just because the fault was created over here does not mean much these days.

The people who used to administer some of our servers were a load of Bobs that worked out of an office in Northern Ireland

**russell** · 2 July 2012, 09:59

People from Edinburgh are almost as hapless and useless as bobs, no wonder it was a disaster.

Yes, Bob's your man	66.67%	16 votes
No it was not Bob's doings	4.17%	1 vote
It is many people's doings	20.83%	5 votes
AndyW reserves the right to withhold judgment until independent verifiable evidence is presented	8.33%	2 votes

Hester remains adamant that it wasn't Bob's fault