Banker's exodus possible - does anyone care?

chucky

carolt wrote: »

Let's face it, they're rubbish at their jobs. Their jobs aren't difficult, or stressful. Or even very important.

if it's so easy let us all know how to calculate the DV01 on GE's Dec 2017 bond?

if it's so easy i'm sure you'd know the answer :rolleyes:

carolt wrote: »

Just vastly overpaid.

and that's why people don't like them

treliac

Afriend wrote: »

But it wasn't what treliac said.

Thanks for your perception Af - I actually wasn't relating the one to the other as had been interpreted.

ruggedtoast

chucky wrote: »

very true - feed the peasants with anger who will hate the people that are richer than them whilst the real issues are being ignored and hidden between the headlines... :rolleyes:

But anger is the food of the peasant. And resentment is the fine wine of the prole.

It was ever thus.

Personally I'm just glad they've momentarily forgotten about fat indolent public sector workers wallowing like pigs in our final salary pension troughs.

Oink.

treliac

chucky wrote: »

very true - feed the peasants with anger who will hate the people that are richer than them whilst the real issues are being ignored and hidden between the headlines... :rolleyes:

But the lying, cheating members of HM Govt are richer than (most of) us ....

Mr_Matey

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Oink.

That was the icing on the cake.
:rotfl:

treliac

Mr_Matey wrote: »

Good idea, make the banks that the government has a large stake in lose all their best staff. Then you'll really be left with the ones who are rubbish at their jobs. Not the best way to get a return on your investment or ensure better management in the future.

Why should we believe that? No-one's indispensable.

I prefer Vince Cable's take on the subject.

Mr_Matey

treliac wrote: »

Why should we believe that? No-one's indispensable.

I prefer Vince Cable's take on the subject.

It's not about being indispensable, it's about talented staff being snapped up by rival organisations, or countries even.

HSBC has already moved it's headquarters to Asia, who's to say no other big financial institutions follow suit? Britain's economy depends on finance for jobs and tax. Drive it offshore at your peril.

treliac

misskool wrote: »

Guess the government spin is working well. Bankers are just another job, they just happen to be the choice at the moment.

You know what I do resent? Celebrities being paid to just appear on TV. They get paid vast sums of money to do not very much and the culture of the celebrity is such that all young people in this country want to aspire to is to be someone famous. It doesn't matter what for!

And footballers, if you really loved the game so much, do you need to get paid £100k a week just to go around and run in the field for 90 minutes?

Oh sorry, forgot that the bankers are the REAL downfall of society

All true and totally obscene.

But ..... it was the bankers who nearly brought the country down with their poor investments. And now they want rewarding for it .... :mad:

And ..... we have a government who encouraged dependence on the financial industry and discouraged a healthy spread of other business and manufacturing across the economy.

lostinrates

treliac wrote: »

All true and totally obscene.

But ..... it was the bankers who nearly brought the country down with their poor investments. And now they want rewarding for it .... :mad:

And we who risked our personal positions with over leveraged positions?

And ..... we have a government who encouraged dependence on the financial industry and discouraged a healthy spread of other business and manufacturing across the economy.

And we want to be graduates and pop stars.....

Treliac, its everyone's fault I think.

Mr_Matey

treliac wrote: »

But ..... it was the bankers who nearly brought the country down with their poor investments. And now they want rewarding for it .... :mad:

Simon Cowell's been doing that for years. Where's his lynch mob?