Good riddance to the feckers I say

AnOrdinaryJoe · 03-07-2013 09:54PM #1

Another bad day for ordinary bank branch employees.

Methinks those who say Ulster Bank is less than committed to Ireland may be right (announced today another 1,800 staff / 40 branches to go).

Aside from inconvenience to some re closure of branches, especially in rural areas......good riddance to the Right Bunch of Schiesters (RBS) owned bank anyway.

And also announced today.......The First Trust Bank (AIB's bank in the north) is to shut four branches in Northern Ireland.

The branch in Ballymoney, Co Antrim, is due to close at the end of September with the shutters coming down on two branches in Belfast and a fourth in Ballynahinch, Co Down, by the end of November.

The closures are part of an ongoing restructuring programme, according to the bank and the announcement follows the decision by the Ulster Bank to lay off as many as 1,800 staff and close up to 40 branches, the vast majority in the Republic.

Fr_Dougal · 03-07-2013 09:56PM

Jesus wept...what an ill informed post...

AnOrdinaryJoe · 03-07-2013 09:58PM

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Jesus wept...what an ill informed post...

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....

Peregrine · 03-07-2013 10:00PM

Fr_Dougal wrote: »

Jesus wept...what an ill informed post...

Apt username too

Celly Smunt · 03-07-2013 10:02PM

Deadly! Loads more people losing jobs and going on to struggle the dole,high five OP

Cee-Jay-Cee · 03-07-2013 10:05PM

The biggest majority of those redundancies have already happened in UB and rest will happen soon through natural wastage.

Almaviva · 03-07-2013 10:09PM

AnOrdinaryJoe wrote: »

Another bad day for ordinary bank branch employees.

Methinks those who say Ulster Bank is less than committed to Ireland may be right (announced today another 1,800 staff / 40 branches to go).

Aside from inconvenience to some re closure of branches, especially in rural areas......good riddance to the Right Bunch of Schiesters (RBS) owned bank anyway.

And also announced today.......The First Trust Bank (AIB's bank in the north) is to shut four branches in Northern Ireland.

The branch in Ballymoney, Co Antrim, is due to close at the end of September with the shutters coming down on two branches in Belfast and a fourth in Ballynahinch, Co Down, by the end of November.

The closures are part of an ongoing restructuring programme, according to the bank and the announcement follows the decision by the Ulster Bank to lay off as many as 1,800 staff and close up to 40 branches, the vast majority in the Republic.

Great news for tax payers. Zombie overweight banks being slimmed down to run under their own steam again rather than collecting handouts from the rest of us.

Delighted.

kneemos · 03-07-2013 10:14PM

CJC999 wrote: »

The biggest majority of those redundancies have already happened in UB and rest will happen soon through natural wastage.

Still job losses.

Crann na Beatha · 03-07-2013 10:14PM

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Fr_Dougal · 03-07-2013 10:17PM

Almaviva wrote: »

Great news for tax payers. Zombie overweight banks being slimmed down to run under their own steam again rather than collecting handouts from the rest of us.

Delighted.

How much did Ulster Bank cost the taxpayer here?

Anyone · 03-07-2013 10:20PM

Almaviva wrote: »

Great news for tax payers. Zombie overweight banks being slimmed down to run under their own steam again rather than collecting handouts from the rest of us.

Delighted.

Ulster Bank/RBS is British.

lkionm · 03-07-2013 10:26PM

What a lovely well informed OP. A true breath of fresh air. He sure knows his stuff.

Of those 1800 staff how many are just average Joes just doing a job to pay bills and to live.

Jesus, that has to be the most idiotic post I have read in AH since the infamous traveler thread.

Use your brain for 2 seconds.

I challenge anyone to find me a more idiotic post.

Lapin · 03-07-2013 10:32PM

Go home OP.

You're either drunk, or hanging around too many barstool philosophers.

Either way, you haven't got a balls notion about what you're talking about.

Frank Black · 03-07-2013 10:33PM

lkionm wrote: »

What a lovely well informed OP. A true breath of fresh air. He sure knows his stuff.

Of those 1800 staff how many are just average Joes just doing a job to pay bills and to live.

Jesus, that has to be the most idiotic post I have read in AH since the infamous traveler thread.

Use your brain for 2 seconds.

I challenge anyone to find me a more idiotic post.

Challenge accepted.

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lkionm · 03-07-2013 10:34PM

Lapin wrote: »

Go home OP.

You're either drunk, or hanging around too many barstool philosophers.

Either way, you haven't got a balls notion about what you're talking about.

Seems like the sort of person to shout at the person behind the counter of a shop because he thinks they set the price.

lkionm · 03-07-2013 10:35PM

Frank Black wrote: »

Challenge accepted.

Is that his son perhaps?

AnOrdinaryJoe · 03-07-2013 10:42PM

Celly Smunt wrote: »

Deadly! Loads more people losing jobs and going on to struggle the dole,high five OP

Ulster Bank is owned by Right Bunch of Schiesters (RBS), or to give it it's proper name, Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), an organisation which has systematically engaged in massive fraud and corruption and activities connected to same.

No-one would imply that ordinary front line staff routinely engaged in same, although some may have.

RBS is a criminally minded organisation (the facts speak for themselves i.e Libor (fraud), PPI mis-selling (fraud), swap rate manipulations (fraud), and so much more of the same sort of stuff...... and it is an organisation which has been shown to lie time and time again, even in court scenarios.

The ethics of this organisation is in the gutter...... it is an organisation which gives even blood sucking parasites a bad name.

A significant proportion of its revenues, and thus its profits, have been derived from criminal activities.

By definition, anyone who makes or derives money from connection to any criminally minded or operating organisation is complicit....... it may not be 'nice' to acknowledge this and it may be unfair too some.

But........ it not being nice it being unfair doesn't make it inappropriate or inaccurate.

If some persons were deriving their income from activities i.e. working for, a criminal organisation, say for instance a drugs cartel, and they knew that that organisation was making money from criminal activities.... would they be considered to be not complicit....... I think they would.

And RBS, as most know, including most or all employees, were a criminally operating organisation...... that much has been demonstrated, and my persons eminently better positioned and qualified than I am to illustrate same.

And they are the organisation which is most responsible for the austerity measures in UK which are having such a devastating effect on the UK, having had the biggest bail out in UK history.

What does anyone think the hard pressed UK Taxpayer would rather have at this time....... the £45 billion which would make lives so much better at this time, or the 82% taxpayer ownership of this corrupt bank, a position which is totally worthless, meaningless and benefitless at this time ?

I reckon they'd rather have the money...........

And I'm sorry to say it and as 'unfair' as it may be...... but Ulster Bank employees, even the nice ones, knowing as they do regarding the activities, etc of the organisation they work for....... are complicit.

lkionm · 03-07-2013 10:51PM

AnOrdinaryJoe wrote: »

Ulster Bank is owned by Right Bunch of Schiesters (RBS), or to give it it's proper name, Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), an organisation which has systematically engaged in massive fraud and corruption and activities connected to same.

No-one would imply that ordinary front line staff routinely engaged in same, although some may have.

RBS is a criminally minded organisation (the facts speak for themselves i.e Libor (fraud), PPI mis-selling (fraud), swap rate manipulations (fraud), and so much more of the same sort of stuff...... and it is an organisation which has been shown to lie time and time again, even in court scenarios.

The ethics of this organisation is in the gutter...... it is an organisation which gives even blood sucking parasites a bad name.

A significant proportion of its revenues, and thus its profits, have been derived from criminal activities.

By definition, anyone who makes or derives money from connection to any criminally minded or operating organisation is complicit....... it may not be 'nice' to acknowledge this and it may be unfair too some.

But........ it not being nice it being unfair doesn't make it inappropriate or inaccurate.

If some persons were deriving their income from activities i.e. working for, a criminal organisation, say for instance a drugs cartel, and they knew that that organisation was making money from criminal activities.... would they be considered to be not complicit....... I think they would.

And RBS, as most know, including most or all employees, were a criminally operating organisation...... that much has been demonstrated, and my persons eminently better positioned and qualified than I am to illustrate same.

And they are the organisation which is most responsible for the austerity measures in UK which are having such a devastating effect on the UK, having had the biggest bail out in UK history.

What does anyone think the hard pressed UK Taxpayer would rather have at this time....... the £45 billion which would make lives so much better at this time, or the 82% taxpayer ownership of this corrupt bank, a position which is totally worthless, meaningless and benefitless at this time ?

I reckon they'd rather have the money...........

And I'm sorry to say it and as 'unfair' as it may be...... but Ulster Bank employees, even the nice ones, knowing as they do regarding the activities, etc of the organisation they work for....... are complicit.

Wow. Fair enough we get the spiel that banks are bad mmmkay, but the people just working there have absolutely nothing to do with any decisions that are made in a boardroom.

Do you go down to the local petrol station and say they are complicit in petrol cartels? Maybe you should do that as well.

Do you give out to barman for serving alcohol as they are complicit in alcholism?

Your posts are simply and utterly idiotic and are just completely immature, and that is coming from me. You are giving out about normal people losing their jobs from a boardroom decision which 99.99% had no say in.

The vast vast majority of people working in banks are just your normal people who you meet out at 3 o clock in a kebab shop with kebab sauce all down their penneys clothes.
Some have families and children.

AnOrdinaryJoe · 03-07-2013 10:52PM

lkionm wrote: »

What a lovely well informed OP. A true breath of fresh air. He sure knows his stuff.

Of those 1800 staff how many are just average Joes just doing a job to pay bills and to live.

Jesus, that has to be the most idiotic post I have read in AH since the infamous traveler thread.

Use your brain for 2 seconds.

I challenge anyone to find me a more idiotic post.

So...... it's ok to 'work' for any organisation which just happens to be a criminally active one (as I stated before...... the facts speak for themselves)...... just as long as you turn a blind eye and conveniently forget that your efforts are helping to create profits for a criminally operating organisation.

The old 'the monthly pay cheque has no conscience' or 'I'm alright so **** the victims' sort of attitude some, or many, seem comfortable to have.

I wonder if the families of the 10,000 people per annum on average who, assisted in their criminal activities by HSBE who actively laundered their ill gotten gains, aided also by the co-operative stance of the current chairman of one of our so called 'pillar banks' when in charge at the division of HSBC at a time when they were doing the money laundering, have been murdered by Mexican drug cartels, frequently de-capitated and mutilated, and their bodies dumped, frequently en masse, on waste ground or by the sides of roads.

Somehow I can't see those people simply taking the attitude 'ach....sure they were only doing their job'.

Idiotic post...... I don't think so...... some people simply can't stomach the truth.

But just cos it isn't a nice truth doesn't mean that it isn't the truth.

daithi1970 · 03-07-2013 10:56PM

AnOrdinaryJoe wrote: »

So...... it's ok to 'work' for any organisation which just happens to be a criminally active one (as I stated before...... the facts speak for themselves)...... just as long as you turn a blind eye and conveniently forget that your efforts are helping to create profits for a criminally operating organisation.

The old 'the monthly pay cheque has no conscience' or 'I'm alright so **** the victims' sort of attitude some, or many, seem comfortable to have.

I wonder if the families of the 10,000 people per annum on average who, assisted in their criminal activities by HSBE who actively laundered their ill gotten gains, aided also by the co-operative stance of the current chairman of one of our so called 'pillar banks' when in charge at the division of HSBC at a time when they were doing the money laundering, have been murdered by Mexican drug cartels, frequently de-capitated and mutilated, and their bodies dumped, frequently en masse, on waste ground or by the sides of roads.

Somehow I can't see those people simply taking the attitude 'ach....sure they were only doing their job'.

Idiotic post...... I don't think so...... some people simply can't stomach the truth.

But just cos it isn't a nice truth doesn't mean that it isn't the truth.

your tinfoil hat might have slipped a bit there..

lkionm · 03-07-2013 10:59PM

AnOrdinaryJoe wrote: »

So...... it's ok to 'work' for any organisation which just happens to be a criminally active one (as I stated before...... the facts speak for themselves)...... just as long as you turn a blind eye and conveniently forget that your efforts are helping to create profits for a criminally operating organisation.

The old 'the monthly pay cheque has no conscience' or 'I'm alright so **** the victims' sort of attitude some, or many, seem comfortable to have.

I wonder if the families of the 10,000 people per annum on average who, assisted in their criminal activities by HSBE who actively laundered their ill gotten gains, aided also by the co-operative stance of the current chairman of one of our so called 'pillar banks' when in charge at the division of HSBC at a time when they were doing the money laundering, have been murdered by Mexican drug cartels, frequently de-capitated and mutilated, and their bodies dumped, frequently en masse, on waste ground or by the sides of roads.

Somehow I can't see those people simply taking the attitude 'ach....sure they were only doing their job'.

Idiotic post...... I don't think so...... some people simply can't stomach the truth.

But just cos it isn't a nice truth doesn't mean that it isn't the truth.

Links or it didnt happen.

I still cant wrap my head around what you are trying to say, mostly due to you adding in words where they do not make any grammatical sense but I got around that and are you trying to tell me the Mexican Cartel are murdering people who work for the company that own Ulster bank?

Now, while we all that we live in a land with no justice system I cannot fathom that. I havent seen any Cartel members going into my branch when I go in.

AnOrdinaryJoe · 03-07-2013 10:59PM

lkionm wrote: »

Wow. Fair enough we get the spiel that banks are bad mmmkay, but the people just working there have absolutely nothing to do with any decisions that are made in a boardroom.

Do you go down to the local petrol station and say they are complicit in petrol cartels? Maybe you should do that as well.

Do you give out to barman for serving alcohol as they are complicit in alcholism?

Your posts are simply and utterly idiotic and are just completely immature, and that is coming from me. You are giving out about normal people losing their jobs from a boardroom decision which 99.99% had no say in.

The vast vast majority of people working in banks are just your normal people who you meet out at 3 o clock in a kebab shop with kebab sauce all down their penneys clothes.
Some have families and children.

They do....... but it doesn't take away the fact that their incomes are derived from working i.e. providing services to a criminally operating organisation.

As I alluded to before....... many of these ordinary employees are not the ones who have set the corporate tone, who have determined the rules and regulations or the 'type of' rules and regulations...... they are, to put in in simple terms 'just doing their jobs'.

Jobs at an organisation which has engaged in massive fraud and corruption...........and whether some of you like it or not....... this is 'complicity', not necessarily intentional. etc...... but complicit nevertheless.

It's an inconvenient truth I'm afraid.

.......and I can understand how someone, someone perhaps who considers himself or herself to be a 'good person', would be annoyed at this....... still true though.

AnOrdinaryJoe · 03-07-2013 11:02PM

lkionm wrote: »

Links or it didnt happen.

I still cant wrap my head around what you are trying to say, mostly due to you adding in words where they do not make any grammatical sense but I got around that and are you trying to tell me the Mexican Cartel are murdering people who work for the company that own Ulster bank?

Now, while we all that we live in a land with no justice system I cannot fathom that. I havent seen any Cartel members going into my branch when I go in.

No..... I'm not saying that..... firstly Ulster Bank/RBS isn't an Irish pillar bank.

There is plenty available regarding HSBC's and key personnel's connection to money laundering for Mexican drug cartels........... which, as far as I am concerned is criminal type activity.

AnOrdinaryJoe · 03-07-2013 11:09PM

Quote:
Originally Posted by lkionm
Wow. Fair enough we get the spiel that banks are bad mmmkay, but the people just working there have absolutely nothing to do with any decisions that are made in a boardroom.

Decisions may be made at boardroom level........ but those who sit in the boardroom and make those decisions cannot simply make their corporate decisions permeate through their organisations.

For that to happen they need an army of compliant and obedient foot soldiers to see the decisions through to actions, people who normally it would seem people operate to a 'see no evil, hear no evil' position in return for the monthly pay cheque.

Fraud and corruption do not prevail because of mere words alone...... the words have to be followed through...... and they have to be followed through by...... get this concept....... by 'people'..... real living breathing people, not friggin' robots as some might prefer to believe.

As stated....... sometimes the truth is not pleasant or palatable....... but it is nevertheless 'the truth'.

lkionm · 03-07-2013 11:09PM

You never answered my question about going down to the bar and giving out to the barman or the worker at a petrol station.

Am I complicit in the work conditions of some places and work deaths because I buy my clothes from Penneys or Nike or dont buy fairtrade?

Am I complicit in someone becoming obese because I put too much cheese in her sandwich?

I can do this all day, it just seems like you have a chip on your shoulder on a moral crusade.

You have no idea about banking systems and what they do and you have been watching too many movies.

thebag89 · 03-07-2013 11:10PM

Looks like It's feeding time down at the Troll enclosure.:D

lkionm · 03-07-2013 11:12PM

thebag89 wrote: »

Looks like It's feeding time down at the Troll enclosure.:D

Nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom nom

steddyeddy · 03-07-2013 11:18PM

Ordinary bank workers in my experience have been wonderful op. They don't decide loaning policy and they didn't engage in the same level of fraud ect as those up top.

AnOrdinaryJoe · 03-07-2013 11:26PM

lkionm wrote: »

1) You never answered my question about going down to the bar and giving out to the barman or the worker at a petrol station.

2) Am I complicit in the work conditions of some places and work deaths because I buy my clothes from Penneys or Nike or dont buy fairtrade?

3) Am I complicit in someone becoming obese because I put too much cheese in her sandwich?

4) I can do this all day, it just seems like you have a chip on your shoulder on a moral crusade.

5) You have no idea about banking systems and what they do and you have been watching too many movies.

1) Stupid argument - every sane individual is responsible for their quantity of intake ow whatever he or she may intake.

2) Yes....... many people died and lost limbs recently in Bangladesh....... but that wasn't the first or only similar disaster in a Bangladeshi factory manufacturing cheap clothing for the western market. Others went un-reported.

Those people pay a huge price for our insatiable desire for cheap products..... other than the few euros we hand over we don't feckin' pay..... they do.

So.. in answer to your question.... YES.... you/anyone who buys cheap clothes from Penney's, etc are complicit. You're blind if you can't see that.

3) Same answer as 1)

4) So..... by your logic anyone who objects to the sort of stuff I , and many others, have a problem with, are to be regarded simply as 'having a chip on my shoulder' or a 'moral crusaders'. What a simplistic view you have......

5) Wrong..... I have a very good i.e. in depth idea of how the banking system works on many levels. I do like movies..... and some of them might even have storylines which are connected in some shape or form to banks...... and many don't. I particularly love Spinal Tap...... unfortunately no banks in that one.

Any more absurd 'comments' gratefully received......

AnOrdinaryJoe · 03-07-2013 11:32PM

steddyeddy wrote: »

Ordinary bank workers in my experience have been wonderful op. They don't decide loaning policy and they didn't engage in the same level of fraud ect as those up top.

Agreed..... I get that..... you're right.

But....... 'they' still derive their incomes from providing their services (their time and their labour) to an organisation which, knowingly to 'them', is indisputably connected to criminal. fraudulent, corrupt, call it what you want.... behaviours and activities.... FACT !

And, regardless of whether some of you wish to acknowledge it or not, is determined to be 'complicit'.

I'm not saying that many or all of them are bad people as such, or that they chose to or deliberately set out to be connected in any shape or form to any criminally operating organisation........ but the indisputable fact is...... they are.

I get that some do not like it and that it is unpalatable to some.

But it's still fact.

lkionm · 03-07-2013 11:36PM

AnOrdinaryJoe wrote: »

1) Stupid argument - every sane individual is responsible for their quantity of intake ow whatever he or she may intake.

2) Yes....... many people died and lost limbs recently in Bangladesh....... but that wasn't the first or only similar disaster in a Bangladeshi factory manufacturing cheap clothing for the western market. Others went un-reported.

Those people pay a huge price for our insatiable desire for cheap products..... other than the few euros we hand over we don't feckin' pay..... they do.

So.. in answer to your question.... YES.... you/anyone who buys cheap clothes from Penney's, etc are complicit. You're blind if you can't see that.

3) Same answer as 1)

4) So..... by your logic anyone who objects to the sort of stuff I , and many others, have a problem with, are to be regarded simply as 'having a chip on my shoulder' or a 'moral crusaders'. What a simplistic view you have......

5) Wrong..... I have a very good i.e. in depth idea of how the banking system works on many levels. I do like movies..... and some of them might even have storylines which are connected in some shape or form to banks...... and many don't. I particularly love Spinal Tap...... unfortunately no banks in that one.

Any more absurd 'comments' gratefully received......

Pop quiz, what is a credit default swap or sub prime market.
How does a bank create money?
What is the IS/LM model?

So you call my argument about alcohol stupid, but surely any sane person should have borrowed only as much as they could afford?
A bit similiar to how you should only drink as much as you can handle.

What about the people who banked with Ulster bank, you know they were the only bank to give students an interest free overdraft. Fair enough, this is my only experience of banking with Ulster bank and for collecting bags of change for work which they didnt charge me any service charge even though they were supposed to charge 5 euro.

I'm not one to jump to any assumptions but there is no way you are an adult? What I mean is, you sound like an 18 year old rambling on the side of the street trying to make a difference but the man keeps getting you down.

Apologies if you are not and are a fully functional human being.

Good riddance to the feckers I say

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