Does anyone know any city bankers?

StevieJ

Generali wrote: »

Slip, slop, slap old chap!

I'm very careful. I got burned at the w/e as it goes. First time in 15 years at a guess. Maybe more.

See I warned you (a bit late ).

Generali

StevieJ wrote: »

See I warned you (a bit late ).

I got stupid sunburn last week - I put on a shirt and then put on my sun cream. Then I decided to go out on the bike and put a cycling shirt on. I got a ring of sunburn on each arm perhaps 3mm wide.

Doh!

On NYE the back of my ears got burned.

dandy-candy

My bro works at Deutsche Bank and funnily enough everytime they were making redundancies in the past he was nervous but atm he feels complete relaxed and confident. I don't think many of his cronies have been laid off so far which might be why - normally he's a right doom-monger!

Conrad

StevieJ wrote: »

Hey Conrad, I note that you are on one of your up days :j

You know me far to well:o

I'm uppish because my wife started a new business last week and already it's getting busy, despite the cc. We set up a calm funky treatment room at home and she's doing reflexology and beauty stuff. She wants to practice some new treatments on me:eek:

chucky

i work for investment banks as an IT contractor on a self-employed basis.

there have been no the job cuts for a while.
salary reductions haven't happened for about 4 -6 months.
everyone seems happy although a little cautious.
6-8 months ago people were a bit nervous about the future but haven't seen that in anyone for a long while.

it's only the ones that were made redundant or struggling to be re-employed that maybe unhappy - that's not a dig at anyone!!

RBS and Barcap are recruiting in my current role at the moment - so things can't be that bad.

t1gger

work for an investment bank in the city too and morale around me is suprisingly high considering. Most people are head down get on with it. Haven't had any redundancies in a few months and not heard of any more planned. Lots of restructing and cost saving exercises.

Feel reasonably happy at the moment as I've been told my position is safe, and we're still turning a profit. You never know though, taking nothing for granted.

agent_orange_2

Come on now! This wil not do. Posters on here want to hear of bankers crying in the streets

bubblesmoney

we know 4 of these in london. 3 still doing well. 1 lost job when lehmans went bust. but found a equivalent job in india in a week or two.

others i know in the same sector abroad seem to be doing ok for now.

purch

Lots of restructing and cost saving exercises

I remember in 1992 when there was a similar 'restructuring' being undertaken throughout the City, the CEO of the Bank where I worked (head office is 1 Wall Street) had the bright idea of starting an 'Anti-Clutter' campaign to encourage everyone to use less paper etc etc.

In one week alone he managed to send out to each and every employee 16 memo's on the subject......:eek:

Some cost saving :rotfl: :rotfl:

lostinrates

I wonder where Walletwatch is...I'm sure that is who I mean.

DH says clients are negotiating more caps on law fees, and thus reaching conclusions more quickly, but with quite poor humour. The ones not setting caps are getting their own way a lot I guess