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Post by MarkS on Feb 28, 2013 23:23:42 GMT
Incredible that the FSA stopped him taking savings on the basis that he wasn't offering his customers enough risk?!?!? Didn't matter he was offering them a very good interest rate at little to no risk?
He got there in the end though and good luck to the fella. Did you see the guy looking at him like he was something he'd just scraped off the bottom of his shoe when he was addressing the meeting in Parliament?
The moral of the Bank Of Dave is normal business's and people do not need big banks or big banking.
It's Big Banks that need Big Banks and Big Banking to keep their gravy train rolling.
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Post by Blownupdolly on Mar 1, 2013 0:02:43 GMT
It made me laugh as most of them looked at him as if he was an alien beamed down from Mars Good on him I say. A touch of the maverick and eccentric about him, but a funny and genuine bloke.
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Post by MarkS on Mar 1, 2013 0:15:52 GMT
They looked at him like that because they resent the fact that he wasn't Eaton or Harrow educated and the likes of him should be serving them and not dictating to them. That's what they are taught at those schools from a very young age.
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Post by Blownupdolly on Mar 1, 2013 0:21:54 GMT
Funnily enough, I was born and raised near Harrow On The Hill. Only, i was educated at the bottom of it and not the top LOL!! I used to laugh watching them come out of school with their straw boater hats.
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Post by OneDay on Mar 1, 2013 0:33:58 GMT
In every country there's an 'us' and a 'them'. It might be based on a formal system like the castes in India or informal like the fraternities in the USA. It might be based on religion or colour. Wherever and whatever it is, there's nothing the 'us' group hate more than having the 'thems' getting uppity.
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Post by lobeydosser on Mar 1, 2013 1:14:06 GMT
No one in the financial or political world will ever understand any business that gives its profits to charity instead of sticking it in their back pockets where they believe all money should reside, no matter who it actually belongs to.
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Post by MarkS on Mar 1, 2013 1:22:44 GMT
I've experienced the prejudice of the "us" group first hand the last time I was an employee. Worked at the company for 5 years, in the first 3 years I was promoted 4 times to management level, was employee of the month 14 times and trained more than 20 employees in various roles within said company and really happy in my job. Then our Managing Director left and a new "Eaton" educated guy took over. In my first meeting with him he asked me about my background and education, which by my own admission is pretty much non-existent in terms of qualifications. He sneered in my face and said "you don't have a degree?" and on another occasion took the p#ss out of me for being brought up on a council estate. Needless to say there were no more promotions in the two years I worked under him, no more employee of the month awards and I was pretty much ignored in meetings and given all of the sh#t assignments. I did suffer it for two years and then one day just had enough and walked out, not before telling him what a pr#ck I thought he was mind. Vowed I'd never put myself in that position again and have worked for myself ever since.
So you may guess where my animosity towards people like that stems from.
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Post by lobeydosser on Mar 1, 2013 1:41:38 GMT
And what MarkS experienced is, unfortunately, the way that most large organisations in the UK are heading.
Take the NHS for instance, now ruled by Degree weilding idiots that have no medical qualifications and are ruining what was once the pride of our nation.
What ever happened to the managers that started on the shop floor and worked their way up to boss level. Or are our universities churning out so many graduates that we have to get rid of the experienced people to make way for the over qualified numpties.
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Post by MarkS on Mar 1, 2013 1:44:05 GMT
What ever happened to the managers that started on the shop floor and worked their way up to boss level. Or are our universities churning out so many graduates that we have to get rid of the experienced people to make way for the over qualified numpties. And that is pretty much how all of our politicians are too. All career politicians and not many who have started out as real workers or working class.
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Post by farzooks on Mar 2, 2013 0:21:00 GMT
Aye, back when I were a lad, the Boss was the Boss and we was grateful for the odd turnip thrown our way. You knew where you stood with a cruel despot and nobody had any illusions, it was out the door and up the road for a life grinding knives if you failed to tug your forelock twenty times a day. Mark my words. Nowadays? Why we've got toffs with qualifications acting like they run the bleddin country. As if. Their grandfathers could have taught them a thing or two about horsewhips and how to keep the lower orders in their place. The natural order is upset when you don't know who to kow-tow to - is it the geeky fella with the degree or that toff with the bow tie and five minutes at management college, paid for by his Pater?
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