What do you think about the bwankers ?

parsi

So this is a poll about the bwankers,

El Weirdo

I think we should stop having threads about them in AH.

KeithM89_old

I assume you mean bus ****??

al28283

El Weirdo wrote: »

I think we should stop having threads about them in AH.

Agreed. It's very boring at this stage. You can read peoples opinions about bankers in almost every thread on boards

Ruu_Old

They deserve a raise.

Dwellingdweller

I think we should carry on with our lives in a sens-BURN THE FUCKERS!-sorry, we now return to our regularly scheduled broadcast; I think we should carry on with our lives in a sensible, naive manner.

Plazaman

Yes, repetitive and yet bankers are still cúnts in every thread. Glad to see the consistency cause it's true.

easyeason3

How can anyone **** a bee?

mikemac

Ridiculous thread

You're throwing the porter who opens the door or girl who lodges your cheque in with Seany Fitz or Colm Doherty.

All bankers though OP

starbelgrade

A duck walks into a bar & says "Got any bwead"

The barman says, "No, this is a pub. What do you want to drink?"

The duck replies, "Bwead".

The barman says, "Look we don't have any bread, do you want a drink or not?"

The duck replies, "Got any bwead?"

The barman gets pissed off and says, "If you ask me for bread again, I'll nail your fucking beak to the bar".

The duck replies, "Got any nails?"

The barman shouts, "No".

The duck replies, "Got any bwead?"

parsi

If I could thank that multiple times...

hondasam

What’s the difference between a banker and a pigeon? … A pigeon can still make a deposit on a Porsche.

landsleaving

A great bunch of lads.

parsi

feelingstressed wrote: »

Ridiculous thread

You're throwing the porter who opens the door or girl who lodges your cheque in with Seany Fitz or Colm Doherty.

All bankers though OP

Yeah. Just like every other worker in the country is paying for these guys actions but yet the bank staff haven't suffered any impact and even received pay rises last year.

dr gonzo

The ubiquity of these threads on AH has me wondering how much banker haters actually understand whats going on and hate them legitmately or is it merely a nice little enemy thrown up by the media so that most irish people can conveniently forgo looking in the mirror.

Im not saying this is the case as i admittedly know nothing about the causes of our current predicament (and thankfully havent learned the hard way) but still the sheer vehemence for this ambiguous job title which as said above encompasses a lot of roles seems a little band-wagoney to me.

parsi

dr gonzo wrote: »

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too many syllables for AH

mikemac

parsi wrote: »

even received pay rises last year.

Went to the Labour court, it was promised and agreed and the banks tried to back out.

If they can give 3 million to Colm Doherty, they can honor what they agreed with staff

parsi wrote: »

yet the bank staff haven't suffered any impact

Thousands have left in the last two years and thousands more will be made redundant this year. No impact?

dr gonzo

parsi wrote: »

too many syllables for AH

landsleaving

dr gonzo wrote: »

The ubiquity of these threads on AH has me wondering how much banker haters actually understand whats going on and hate them legitmately or is it merely a nice little enemy thrown up by the media so that most irish people can conveniently forgo looking in the mirror.

Im not saying this is the case as i admittedly know nothing about the causes of our current predicament (and thankfully havent learned the hard way) but still the sheer vehemence for this ambiguous job title which as said above encompasses a lot of roles seems a little band-wagoney to me.

Always is. It's far more convenient than suggesting a change to our entire cultural and political ideals. Plus, if someone in the media said something like that, rather than just blaming it on a convenient large group, they'd just get berated like they were Alison O'Riordan, or be preaching to the converted in some niche publication.

parsi

feelingstressed wrote: »

Went to the Labour court, it was promised and agreed and the banks tried to back out.

They could refuse if they wished. Plenty of companies have ignored labour court . That was a fig-leaf used to sort out the boyos.

Three years on and there haven't been any compulsory redundancies in the "Pillar banks".

mikemac

parsi wrote: »

Three years on and there haven't been any compulsory redundancies in the "Pillar banks".

And you chose this week to post that?
Thousands will be laid off before the end of this year, all confirmed this week

But all staff have known it for a long time
Banks have high turnover anyway with young staff and thousands have left in the last three years.

dotsman

parsi wrote: »

Yeah. Just like every other worker in the country is paying for these guys actions but yet the bank staff haven't suffered any impact and even received pay rises last year.Yeah, bank employees have seen massive reductions in their (already less than industry standard) pay over the past few years and thousands of them have lost their jobs, with many thousands more to lose theirs over the coming few years, all the while putting up with BS from idiotic sheeple.

FYP

mikemac

Bank staff are the new civil servants as taking blame goes, that girl who lodges my cheques, I blame her especially.
And that girl in Pearse St held a gun to my head to force me to take that 300k mortgage

Burn them all!

parsi

dotsman wrote: »

FYP

Crap. So the average bwanker is earning less than their industry average ? I don't think so - maybe this explains the source of our problems ?

A lot of folk would love a job where they don't open up until 10:00 (10:30 on Wednesdays) and finish at 16:00.

And still get Good friday off and the day after St Stephen's day. And the subsidised gyms. And the subisidised loans. And staff parties (as happened recently in Cork).

mikemac

parsi wrote: »

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A lot of folk would love a job where they don't open up until 10:00 (10:30 on Wednesdays) and finish at 16:00.

Do you think that staff only stroll in at 10am and go home at 4pm? Ever hear of "cashing up"?
And branch staff probably work the shortest hours of bank staff. A lot more to banks then the branches. Go to a HQ, any HQ and you won't see anyone arrive at that time

parsi wrote: »

And still get Good friday off and the day after St Stephen's day. And the subsidised gyms. And the subisidised loans. And staff parties (as happened recently in Cork).

Good Friday is not a public holiday but yes, all banks close, it's traditional at this stage.
You pay benefit in kind tax on subsidized mortgages and when I was in AIB, most staff didn't take their offers. With BIK, there are better offers out there.
They pay up to €200 to gyms or sports clubs, so do many companies. Offers changed so maybe that's changed

The main perk was not paying commission on bank drafts, wow a whole €1.50 off :pac: What a perk!
Ulster Bank gave commission off for foreign exchange but hey, they are owned by RBS so you can't realy rant about them

parsi

feelingstressed wrote: »

Good Friday is not a public holiday but yes, all banks close, it's traditional at this stage.

Traditional ? State owned and they couldn't be arsed to open up ? They have the same privilege days that the Gov have finally stripped from the PS.

Gold-plated pensions, comfy opening hours and nicely subsidised loans - quite sweet for the old IBOA members who've been treading water since they caused the bank crisis.

mikemac

IBOA members caused the banking crisis? Nobody above branch manager is in a union. Management don't join unions.

The IBOA represent only a portion of banking staff and they are in branches.
You are continually going on about branch staff, tens of thousands don't work in branches and are not represented by IBOA.

Miss my post on loans and the subsidies?
Benefit in kind tax applies to any of this

dotsman

parsi wrote: »

Crap. So the average bwanker is earning less than their industry average ? I don't think so - maybe this explains the source of our problems ?

I'm afraid it's true. Banks are hemorrhaging staff from certain roles (IT/Accounting etc) and have been for the past few years as they are being offered massive increases on what they are getting from the banks.

parsi wrote: »

A lot of folk would love a job where they don't open up until 10:00 (10:30 on Wednesdays) and finish at 16:00.

That statement is just one huge facepalm. You clearly have no understanding of what you are even talking about.

parsi wrote: »

And still get Good friday off and the day after St Stephen's day.

Many offices close on Good Friday and over xmas. Just like companies have different annual leave policies

parsi wrote: »

And the subsidised gyms.

I'm not aware of any person working in banking who has subsidised gym membership (perhaps some do, but I've yet to meet any of them. A few have subsidised club membership (ie golf club etc), but only a few. Some companies offer free gym membership, others free health insurance, others offer free dental - so what?

parsi wrote: »

And the subisidised loans.

The subsidised loans no longer applies as lending rates are so cheap at the moment, and the benefit in kid ref rate so high (ie the "subsidised loans are more expensive than the loans offered to customers).

parsi wrote: »

And staff parties (as happened recently in Cork).

A few people (out of tens of thousands) have a few drinks after work in cork - whoopdy-****in-do.

KillerShamrock

Parsi Seriously cop on, you clearly havent got a clue what your talking about and your one of the many ill informed people that join the bandwagon, believe everything they read in the red rags!

Yes there are a number of over paid wasters in the banks like in most companies and governments and so on it happens everywhere look at the premiership for instance (had to throw it in).
The vast majority of staff earn less than 30k even 25k per year the don't get bonuses and haven't gotten a pay rise in at least 3 years have to put up with people like you on a daily basis while the people who are paid the money and caused the trouble hide away!
There is nothing more i would like to see than these people who caused the crap and get rewarded for it be thrown in jail but sadly as we all know in this country
the rich and corrupt get rewarded while the poor and low paid take the burden and crap!
I'm hoping a Mod will close this tread as its nothing but an chance for the ill informed to bemoan people who have done nothing wrong because they are to afraid to confront the people who actually caused the problems we are in!

Rabies

OP, when you can act like an adult you can keep a thread like this in AH.

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