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Crown

I was amazed watching the show but not really suprised.

I realise that Barclays are going to come under a lot of attack but I am sure the Halifax/Royal Bank of Scotland are much more ruthless than was shown on whisatleblower.

You just have to look at the profits they declared to realise that the banks are not there for there customers anymore

In Martins words. They try to screw us and we should to screw them straight back....(ooo.eer missus! it was something like thayt anyway lol)

justpaper

missed the show, but like the above poster, u know its going on in other banks, after all their all corp/ firms after your money,. i was in TSB a few wks back and a pensioner was very upset (kinda shouting) and confused about his 20k it seemed to have gone missing,. lord know what happened tho,. the lady on the counter ask him if he "signed" anything,. which he re: im not that stupid ,.. (which i few of us in the Q found funny)

James

You can find an edited edition of the programme:

Click here.

They also covered insider fraud in a big way but it's not in the edited edition above.

jeninbrighton

I think it's more like what immoral_angeluk says... it takes a few months to come through, but they do have them done every time.

I did hear of one person who was hired on at Barclays, and about a month later his checks came through, and it turned out he had a couple of CCJs. He was let go immediately. So yeah, you can probably work there for a while before you get caught. But your first few months are training anyway.

So the reporter has just taken the fact that she started work before the check was complete, and turned it from something common and normal, into something TV-worthy.

The whole show just seemed to me like they were taking mundane things and trying to make them exciting. Like when the police came into the cafe, and it went all slow-motion and in sepia tones to make it more dramatic... then it turned out they were there to arrest someone else. Talk about scraping the barrell!

MORPH3US wrote: »

Can't disagree one the other points as your husband obviously knows more than I do about it, but must disagree with the above...

Unless the reporter was lying then 3 jobs were obtained without criminal reccord checks.

Later in the programme, they quoted Barclays as saying "we do check criminal reccords of all staff, but not as quickly as we should" Either that was to cover their back and they don't really, or it was the truth.

Either way the people in question managed to get and keep jobs for months without them being done.

M

lauren_1

I think i need to get a machine that records phone calls when i ring up my bank? I have had awfull service with them for the past umpteen years and had incomplete bank statements missing aprox £200 of charges off, its all done and dusted now but they just annoy the hell out of me

dianadors

I can confirm that the bank I worked for didnt do any Crminal background Checks. They checked Credit reference agencies to see if staff had any credit problems but they didnt run any police checks (and I know because I was part of the recruitment team for advisors). I also know that they were going to "brush under the carpet" an incident where a team manager defrauded the company of almost £100k. It only went to court when the really high ups got to know. They also took on lots of foreign students who were at the local university and absolutely no checks whatsover were done for these.

Crown

Anyone who is paying for digital TV via Virgin should use the ON DEMAND service. the BBC have the show on there for free and could be viewed at anytime.

file_wizzard

http://w3.cantos.com/07/pimento-703-fmdfc/index_main.php?task=view&i=1&type=video&language=en&section=interview&cnt=bb&med=asx&m=false


VERY poor attempt by Barclays to look like they are taking the matter seriously, wonder which office bod posed as the “journalist” !

BAILIFFCHASER

the forum i used to write for before i was moderated was also on there. The member natweststaff member and i hav pm regularly. dont know who he was but anyway now i am on this forum and waiting to take your pms or emails on any problems you may have with bailiffs. If you google me you will se that there are approx 500 threads in my name bailiffchaser.

immoral_angeluk

BAILIFFCHASER wrote: »

the forum i used to write for before i was moderated was also on there. The member natweststaff member and i hav pm regularly. dont know who he was but anyway now i am on this forum and waiting to take your pms or emails on any problems you may have with bailiffs. If you google me you will se that there are approx 500 threads in my name bailiffchaser.

This thread isn't about bailiffs