So Barclays find yet another way to hold on to peoples money and receive a free days interest- several million I would imagine. Will they share this with their customers that have been inconvenience not to mention out of pocket?? No.
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Rape the company in the short-term so that the top execs achieve their cost cutting targets thus achieving their bonuses.
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to engage contractors and other partners; and to "rightshore our organisation" - as a result of which there will be job losses.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05...ob_cuts_again/
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Originally posted by Alf W View PostFrom The Register
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.
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From The Register
Barclays to lay off more tech staff
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By John Oates • Get more from this author
Posted in IT Director, 11th May 2009 14:47 GMT
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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.
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.
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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.
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More people get divorced in the UK every year than change their banks.
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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.
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Originally posted by DaveB View PostWill 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.
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