Reply to: Contracting At HSBC

[suityou01]

Linky

Floor 7 is IT/Plant

HTH

[caspercat1]

Bound by confidentiality agreement cannot devulge. But even the traders don't go there it is a bit like floor 42 in One Canada Square but the FSA own that one. The Bogs and the lifts are worse there as well.

[AtW]

So come on then, forget all this banter about the bogs and the lifts, and tell us

What's on this mysterious 7th Floor?

Don't ask

[OwlHoot]

So come on then, forget all this banter about the bogs and the lifts, and tell us

What's on this mysterious 7th Floor?

[d000hg]

Ah, using those little dongle things and laptops with finger-print readers, etc, etc? Do they perchance make you remote-desktop onto a PC that IS running on site as well? I worked in a banking consultancy and we did it that way, we each had a PC in the client's building and had to log in remotely so it was harder to copy-paste or do anything without them knowing.

[Moscow Mule]

Interesting to hear they are even considering work-from-home, I thought all banks were super locked down?

They have a lot of rules about not using your own stuff on the network, but are often happy for you to use their laptops at home.

[Jaws]

Interesting to hear they are even considering work-from-home, I thought all banks were super locked down?

Not investment banking but a contractor mate of mine has just returned to lloyds, he was given a laptop and told to work from home first day. I've worked with quite a few other contractors there who do the same.

[d000hg]

What's a 'crip' rate? The roles I've been chased about the last year or two (never pursued as didn't want to work in London) were £600+ which I'd be fairly content with, would be able to rent a proper serviced apartment and still bring home the bacon rather than shack up in a B&B.

Interesting to hear they are even considering work-from-home, I thought all banks were super locked down?

[Moscow Mule]

Stay clear of floor 7 there is a reason the lifts don't stop there

Is it a plant room?

[caspercat1]

Stay clear of floor 7 there is a reason the lifts don't stop there

[swamp]

Can't say I've ever been in a Norman Foster building which I could have thought of as well designed. They are, unfortunately, another victory for form over function

Baron Foster of Thames Bank lives in a Swiss Chateau, and has another pad in France, plus an apartment on 5th Avenue NY. He certainly has taste. He does not live in his own buildings!

[Spacecadet]

I blame Sir Norman Foster.

Can't say I've ever been in a Norman Foster building which I could have thought of as well designed. They are, unfortunately, another victory for form over function

[Jog On]

It's quite nice at this time of year to be able to get in to the building through the underground bit from the tube. I'm not at HSBC but next door and use the same undergound entrance

[Freamon]

Some impressive views from the conference rooms up at the top, floors 40-42ish IIRC. Also the lifts don't stop at floor 7, I was curious about this and managed to find the "secret way" onto it which was pretty cool. Enjoyed my time there a lot. HSBC pay crip rates though.

Plant floor I assume?

Not sure if it's HSBC, but apparently one of the banks in CW have such problems with cooling their machine room floors in the building that, if the outside air temp in the summer gets too hot, the only solution they have is to get on the roof and literally hose it down with cold water.

[RichardCranium]

Also the lifts don't stop at floor 7, I was curious about this and managed to find the "secret way" onto it which was pretty cool.

Watch out for the Zarg.