Reply to: Time for you to leave Barclays....

[portseven]

Apparently it's a nightmare in there now, outsourcing and other 'initiatives' have squeezed all the good stuff out and they are turning the bar into a starbucks....

And there was me looking forward to going back there and enjoying lazy lunches in the bar, the Cheese and Branston toasties with Chips were loveley!

[mrdavies]

Yeah Starbucks is there complete with over friendly camp staff... don't need that tulip on a monday morning..

[Cowboy Bob]

Has anyone else ex-RBS / NatWest integration been contacted by Spring recently - about 'positions that may be coming up'?

Vaguely remember having one of those "we have a potential contract" e-mails from them regarding a financial company. Ignored it though...

[lukemg]

Ah, heady days, yr 2000 work (1500 quid for New Years Day afto playing video games) Mike Green cup 5-a-side in the summer at lunch (40 teams, 300 watching the final, very nerve-wracking), off to a country pub at lunch with some spendid filly or another, contractors getting fancy cars and annoying the permie proles, you could also work and charge for any hours you wanted to do e.g.10-12 hours a day and there was 7 days work if you wanted it.
Apparently it's a nightmare in there now, outsourcing and other 'initiatives' have squeezed all the good stuff out and they are turning the bar into a starbucks....

[Alf W]

I was but I missed that particular do. Contractors TWOCing and crashing coaches and young women being rogered in the squash courts. Whatever happened to those heady days?

I remember the "Barclays Bonk" headlines in the Tabs a few days later.

[portseven]

Has Barclays got anything left in Cheshire? I thought it had long since outsourced all that to Accenture and EDS (who then offshored it). The Radbroke Hall holiday park - those were the days!

Radders is still there as far as I know, got a few friends there atm. Hopefully it's staying as it's reasonably local to me and a usually a good gig.

Were you there when the infamous beer weekend happened?

[Sockpuppet]

Have any of the main banks confirmed that their call centres will never be off shored ?

No but NATWEST and Dove are both running themseles into a corner. Should NATWEST ever ofshore the tabloids will have a field day and should Dove ever stop using ugly women in its "campaign for real beauty" the same will happen.

[Mailman]

RBS seems to be the only one with no plans to move overseas. Then again maybe Im confusing an Indian accent as a Scotish one?

Mailman

[EternalOptimist]

Have any of the main banks confirmed that their call centres will never be off shored ?

[Mailman]

So in all because of the merger nearly 25,000 jobs will be lost.

Hard to see where the benefit is in all of this unless of course you are a major shareholder that is

You know if I worked for Barclays or ABN Id be root'n for RBS to take over as their call centres are in Scotland (haha, cheap labour ).

Mailman

[Celtic_Charmer]

Also the one at Brackmills

Ah - but the one at Brackmills is Barclaycard and they treat them as two entirely different companies (when it suits them). Can't see that going, and neither can some of the people I know that work there on a permie basis. It's the ones in HO in Canary Wharf that will need to start sweating

[Troll]

My money's on RBS to pip them at the post.

Has anyone else ex-RBS / NatWest integration been contacted by Spring recently - about 'positions that may be coming up'?

[Alf W]

Has Barclays got anything left in Cheshire? I thought it had long since outsourced all that to Accenture and EDS (who then offshored it). The Radbroke Hall holiday park - those were the days!

If this deal comes off it will be all the support functions like HR and Finance that will get clobbered down in Canary Wharf.

My money's on RBS to pip them at the post.

[Sockpuppet]

Also the one at Brackmills

[Troll]

...unless you want the Mumbai Massif reading your bank statements.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6582507.stm

22,000 ish jobs going (10,000 to lo-cost locations).

Just think of all the work integrating...NatWest MkII

gotta make sure Bob does not get a look in