TheCountOfNowhere Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 https://next.ft.com/content/486fc54e-0155-11e6-ac98-3c15a1aa2e62 What a terrible thing to happen...why couldnt it have been 20,0000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sour Mash Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 Likely a disproportionate amount of the people losing their income are back office types who do the mundane day to day stuff of keeping the infrastructure of the organisation going - not the greedy tw@s at the top who steered the ship onto the rocks nor the traders who made the crazy bets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billybong Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 (edited) https://next.ft.com/content/486fc54e-0155-11e6-ac98-3c15a1aa2e62 What a terrible thing to happen...why couldnt it have been 20,0000 +1 They could have all gone off and worked in the US like the board threatened to do recently - move its HQ. In 2015 http://www.reuters.com/article/barclays-idUSN3011934920110330 and in 2011 http://www.theweek.co.uk/business/6895/don%E2%80%99t-push-us-leave-uk-barclays-warns-treasury and in 2010 http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5e0ba186-b6bd-11df-b3dd-00144feabdc0.html#axzz45i86hb7f Edited April 13, 2016 by billybong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyguy Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 https://next.ft.com/content/486fc54e-0155-11e6-ac98-3c15a1aa2e62 What a terrible thing to happen...why couldnt it have been 20,0000 Banks canot make money when rates are low and the spread between short and long lending is narrow to negative. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyguy Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 Likely a disproportionate amount of the people losing their income are back office types who do the mundane day to day stuff of keeping the infrastructure of the organisation going - not the greedy tw@s at the top who steered the ship onto the rocks nor the traders who made the crazy bets. Nope. Itll be traders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccc Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 Nope. Itll be traders. Barclays has 8000 traders ? Unlikely. As already said - it will nearly all be back office, call centre or branch monkeys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spunko2010 Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 My Barclays branch has gone from 6 days a week, to 5, to 4 days. And shuts at 3.30pm. They may as well just do away with it entirely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MonkeyPuzzle Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 Lots of branches have shut and there are loads more planned to shut or be essentially un-manned (filling the space with 'help yourself' machines for deposit/withdrawal). They even laughingly tried an experiment of NAMING the machines with real people's names. So you could go use 'Bob' to deposit a cheque, and then cross over to use 'Wendy' to withdraw some cash. As if that's going to make customers feel as if Barclays cares about them. ** weep ** And yes it'll mostly be average-joe type jobs to be cut -- they'll outsource lots of legal department work, and facilities management, marketing and corporate responsibility, internal comms, social media teams, telephony centres, oh and of course the HR recruitment team because they're a tad excess to requirements, eh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billybong Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 (edited) It's a bit like retailers who put the cute "Buy Me" beside their goods. They think it's better than the bald "Buy It" instruction. Edited April 13, 2016 by billybong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dgul Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 Lots of branches have shut and there are loads more planned to shut or be essentially un-manned (filling the space with 'help yourself' machines for deposit/withdrawal). They even laughingly tried an experiment of NAMING the machines with real people's names. So you could go use 'Bob' to deposit a cheque, and then cross over to use 'Wendy' to withdraw some cash. As if that's going to make customers feel as if Barclays cares about them. ** weep ** My local Barclay's is funny - loads of unused automatic tellers and a massive queue (mainly OAPs) for the single person in the lobby part of the branch (ostensibly for bureau de change but actually covers everything). I can't say I mind though - no queues for me... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyguy Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 My local Barclay's is funny - loads of unused automatic tellers and a massive queue (mainly OAPs) for the single person in the lobby part of the branch (ostensibly for bureau de change but actually covers everything). I can't say I mind though - no queues for me... Ive been with FIrstdirect for years. The HSB branches I used ave been mainly automated for years. Id hate to use a bracnh with loads ofOAPs. PITA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dances with sheeple Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 My Barclays branch has gone from 6 days a week, to 5, to 4 days. And shuts at 3.30pm. They may as well just do away with it entirely. Nearly as bad as what is happening with libraries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noallegiance Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 https://next.ft.com/content/486fc54e-0155-11e6-ac98-3c15a1aa2e62 What a terrible thing to happen...why couldnt it have been 20,0000 I used to work for one of these horrific institutions. The management team were told to get headcount down by the end of 2015. They didn't need to do a thing. People were leaving to indulge in the more pleasant pursuit of shoving a wire coathanger into their genitals. Bearing in mind I worked in a small area in a bulding with 2000 staff, I saw over 20 staff leave between March and September 2015. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sPinwheel Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 I used to work for one of these horrific institutions. The management team were told to get headcount down by the end of 2015. They didn't need to do a thing. People were leaving to indulge in the more pleasant pursuit of shoving a wire coathanger into their genitals. Bearing in mind I worked in a small area in a bulding with 2000 staff, I saw over 20 staff leave between March and September 2015. Bet the money was good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noallegiance Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 Bet the money was good As local wages go it was fractionally above median at full time staff level. As local house prices go, sweet FA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_duke_of_hazzard Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 Barclays had a pay round recently, and many have left following that, as well as the usual attrition. These positions are not being filled. We managed to get one person replaced, but the decision to replace had to go all the way up to the CEO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
koala_bear Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 Presumably also the sale of the some of the oversea operation especially in Africa too recently? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nnails Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 My mum left Barclays cause they closed the branch Went to HSBC HSBC closed Went to tsb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VeryMeanReversion Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 Banks canot make money when rates are low and the spread between short and long lending is narrow to negative. I've heard that said elsewhere but when I look, the banks are still making £'s. e.g. Lloyds has a P/E of 8-9 and profit of more than a £billion, even whilst paying out for PPI . FUNDAMENTAL DATA Year ending: 31/12/2015 31/12/2014 Revenue (£m) 23,150.00 29,892.00 Profit before tax (£m) 1,644.00 1,762.00 Adjusted EPS (p): 8.50 8.10 P/E ratio 8.60 9.40 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloo Loo Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 I used to work for one of these horrific institutions. The management team were told to get headcount down by the end of 2015. They didn't need to do a thing. People were leaving to indulge in the more pleasant pursuit of shoving a wire coathanger into their genitals. Bearing in mind I worked in a small area in a bulding with 2000 staff, I saw over 20 staff leave between March and September 2015. low end jobs are becoming more and more demanding all the time...no breaks, constant demands placed for all the hours worked, no chatting, no interaction...just do the job. We are back to the days of rows and rows of people working in silence and dressed in Sunday best just to keep the jobs, its just that they are working out of the rows now. Meanwhile, for mangers, its customer schmoozing, long lunches and meetings to escape the drudge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zugzwang Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 I've heard that said elsewhere but when I look, the banks are still making £'s. e.g. Lloyds has a P/E of 8-9 and profit of more than a £billion, even whilst paying out for PPI . FUNDAMENTAL DATAYear ending: 31/12/2015 31/12/2014 Revenue (£m) 23,150.00 29,892.00 Profit before tax (£m) 1,644.00 1,762.00 Adjusted EPS (p): 8.50 8.10 P/E ratio 8.60 9.40 They're making their numbers on volume. Household borrowing is screaming upwards; secured debt (~5% yoy) unsecured debt (~12% yoy). Osborne is still spending like a Venezuelan Marxist. Plus, there's a vast number of legacy mortgages on Standard Variable Rates of 5% approx. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
200p Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 low end jobs are becoming more and more demanding all the time...no breaks, constant demands placed for all the hours worked, no chatting, no interaction...just do the job. We are back to the days of rows and rows of people working in silence and dressed in Sunday best just to keep the jobs, its just that they are working out of the rows now. Meanwhile, for mangers, its customer schmoozing, long lunches and meetings to escape the drudge. Sounds like the Japanese corporate culture. We are going Japanese. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MinceBalls Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 Direct experience of a couple of these banks, most are getting rid of staff to meet ever changing short term targets. Said banks are hiring 'consultants' at quite a rate and paying them 700-1500 a DAY contract rates for what are affectively permanent positions. If you've already made it into the 1% 'consultancy' network then most of your time and daily effort will involve networking, protecting and increasing your already inflated salary at the expense of the people that take care of the day-to-day running of the institution. We're not far from a massive banking IT failure because these systems are creaking and the people who support them are being replaced by idiots. House of cards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MinceBalls Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/apr/14/rbs-close-32-natwest-branches-axe-600-jobs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccc Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 Direct experience of a couple of these banks, most are getting rid of staff to meet ever changing short term targets. Said banks are hiring 'consultants' at quite a rate and paying them 700-1500 a DAY contract rates for what are affectively permanent positions. If you've already made it into the 1% 'consultancy' network then most of your time and daily effort will involve networking, protecting and increasing your already inflated salary at the expense of the people that take care of the day-to-day running of the institution. We're not far from a massive banking IT failure because these systems are creaking and the people who support them are being replaced by idiots. House of cards. Most of those hugely paid consultants come through the likes of Deloitte etc.. There are of course some individuals who command that sort of money - lucky them ! Either way -its still costing the banks £1500 per day for some shiny suited bod who knows how to produce a powerpoint that will blow the boss's socks off - instead of a £400 independent contractor who may actually [Not always] be a grafter. Then on top of that you have the opposite - the off[or in] sourcing of mainly Indian bods for much of the back office IT work. In £ terms this probably helps them justify the massive payments to the consultancies. In reality - they can be a nightmare on the job [Not always] and cause a serious amount of hassle and frustration with those trying to get things done [Generalisation] So in essence - you have a lot of people in the middle - many of whom are pretty decent at their jobs and earning good - but not amazing money - being replaced by cheap labour who are generally poor at their job - and uber expensive labour who do little apart from self selling their services whilst wearing brown shoes with shiny suits whilst carrying a satchel. Fantastic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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