I don't that's the case mate, it comes from the top, look at the Natwest in the village that closed it was nearly always busy and sometimes the queue was out the door, yet they still closed the last bank we had despite the petition against the closure and there used to 4 banks before possibly more
Yes the top are forcing the digital age. They then get held hostage by the IT team because they have to continue to change things to justify their jobs. If they try to sack them then they sabotage the system like what happened to BA and TSB.
Going off what I heard some time ago, the banks servers and equipment are well out of date, you would think a massive upgrade would need to take place otherwise sabotage from a hacker surely wouldn't be that hard, never mind the in house techs, really surprising how big organisations aren't 100% on the ball with their security, It was on the regional news this week how a council in @spruce's neck of the woods were hacked and it cost them £2 million
Have you never noticed one thing about UK companies especially Government bodies? They don't like to spend any money on routine maintenance! They would rather wait till it collapses like the M&S sign in Glasgow that hit two women last week. They used to dredge the rivers in Avon & Summerset until a bean counter thought what a waste of money and runs off with big bonus. Decades later all the homes get flooded and they ask why. My customer was routine maintenance officer for British Rail and every Sunday they would walk the tracks and have a visual inspection. Bean counter get's hired and first thing he does is stop the Sunday visual inspection. Years later we have one of the biggest rail crashes in history because of no routine maintenance but the bean counter is away with big bonus. The UK has changed to reactive when it used to be proactive because of short term gains in money management. They are trying to do it with the Police up here. I called them for a fight but because there was not a weapon involved they wouldn't attend. fwiw
Funnily enough I was at a mates house the other day and he had been talking to some one very near the local river earlier this week, were there is a former mine, some years ago they had a pump running to pump water out of the old mine shafts/workings they have stopped doing this completely right across the board at all the former mine workings, this came from the guy who was out there doing an assessment, with all the rain it makes you wonder what could happen.
Redcar and Cleveland Council it was.
Pretty sure it said £2 million on the news, big organisations will be spending £1,000's on things each year but fail to upgrade what's needed, councils are the worst for this, off topic a bit with all the austerity we have had our council made massive cutbacks and lots of people lost their jobs, then they have apparently saved so much money that they can afford to build a new council offices ?
It sometimes just doesn't make sense.
The mind boggles, I think that has happened with a other councils as well, the school thing happened at a local school as well new headteacher just a lad in his twenties, but he cut staff numbers. 3 months ago my wife and the two lasses she shares/shared a job role with were told savings needed to be made and staff numbers had to be cut, the other 2 put in for their redundancy, a total of 10-12 employees across the various homes then 2-3 weeks later all the staff were informed that the paper recording for tasks was been scrapped and they are introducing a digital/computer based system
Son in law works for a company linked to the Middlesbrough council. The council pay his wages every month.
