RBS/NatWest IT Down

[CoolCat]

Aah the 'I'm not racist I have black friends line' im not defending RBS or indeed Indian outsourcing bit that fact that you take any opportunity to rant about the 'darkies' speaks for itself...

BS I am afraid.

Its not racist to discuss factually immigration, or the use of outsourcing, or the problems with Indian culture.

[Mich the Tester]

The pro open doors immigration lobby have been throwing the racism charge around for years to try and shut down debate on immigration, in this case the use of Indian outsourcing does need proper debate.

Nonsense; you can debate immigration as much as you like and nobody is trying to stop you. Stop pretending to be a victim.

[CoolCat]

Actually the problem was in fact introduced in Scotland. I was contacted about going there...

RBS collapse details revealed: Arrow points to defective part

is quite a good run down on what happened last time

[russell]

Is it not better to wait until the cause is revealed, otherwise you just come across as a racist "they took our jobs" type.

[sasguru]

Is it not better to wait until the cause is revealed, otherwise you just come across as a racist "they took our jobs" type.

He used to work for an Indian outsourcer and they found out how incompetent he was, so they made him swallow pole.
He's had a grudge ever since.

[Ticktock]

He used to work for an Indian outsourcer and they found out how incompetent he was, so they made him choke down pole.
He's had a grudge ever since.

FTFY

[SimonMac]

Quit the racism folks. It's more likely to be Suity wot done it.

+1

[SimonMac]

Is it not better to wait until the cause is revealed, otherwise you just come across as a racist "they took our jobs" type.

Since when has facts ever got in the way of a General Thread!?

I like the news this morning how people were bemoaning they they couldn't pay rent, or wages due to the down turn, who the **** leave it till 21:00 to pay their wages! The jurnos were no better, watching Eamonn Holmes as the same question over and over again expecting a different answer, or in fact expecting any kind of decent answer from RBS PR woman

[eek]

+1

Its a screw up. The basis of the screw up will be interesting to read when its revealed.

However I reckon the next issue will be with 7 day account transfers from RBS / Natwest to anywhere else. One problem is just about acceptable, 2 in just over 1 year

[darmstadt]

RBS collapse details revealed: Arrow points to defective part

is quite a good run down on what happened last time

Yep, from one of the blokes who was there:

Obviously i can't go into too much detail here, but although the outsourcing to India did not cause the intial problem, the recovery has prompted questions to be asked as to who thought dumping over 50% of the UK support staff was a good idea - indeed people made redundant less tha a month ago have now been offered short term contracts to come back and help

I actually know what the problem was, how it was caused and why it happened, in fact searching the web will tell you that it was not due to outsourcing to India although some of the support was and this partially caused the problems with spotting the problem and getting the systems back. The initial problem was in the UK...