Online Petition: HSBC Bank Moving UK Jobs To Asia

"Mark Henderson" wrote

Hadn't heard that, thanks for letting us know.

Ermmm - the words appear to be wrong! Where's the one in *favour* of them reducing the costs, so that charges can be reduced??

These are *call centre* jobs. They shouldn't be moving them, but scrapping them! They should be letting customers have face to face meetings with their branch assistant managers.

Bitstring , from the wonderful person Ronald Raygun said

They =will be= scrapping them, as soon as most of the folks figure out how much better interest rates they can get using Internet Only accounts, with minimum human involvement. 8>.

p.s. What's a branch manager? Come to that, what's a branch??

Pah! Before long you'll be asking "What's a bank?". Internet banking will become a thing of the past when folks figure out there is no door or desk anywhere they can bang or thump on when problems need sorted.

Sure there is (Try Smile, AKA Co-Op bank). They replied to the phone right smartly, the one time (in 5 years) I needed to talk to someone.

I am much more concerned that HSBC is running Spyware on your PC when you access their website. They make no mention of this in their Privacy Policy (beyond the use of cookies and web bugs) and they do not ask for permission.

This is the main reason I may cease to bank with HSBC.

Mark

Which software is this? I haven't noticed anything - not that I have particularly looked..

Regards Sunil

Huh? What exactly do you see? I am using either Linux or QNX and hense missing the joys of spyware. Just curious.

They name them "web beacons". As T&C say, "You'll find a number of hypertext links to other locations on the Internet from our Site". Indeed you will, and at least one of them, , leads to the site of the company with dubious registration information

Administrative Contact, Technical Contact: Admin, DNS (20553249I) snipped-for-privacy@REDSHERIFF.COM Red Sheriff Ltd 7/10 Queens Rd Melbourne, VIC 3004 AU 999-999-9999 fax: 999-999-9999

I am with Bank of Scotland currently but looking to place my money somewhere else, to the bank that is competent in both banking AND internet service. BoS has screwed up its internet service completely this summer -- reimplementing their existing site and introducing new one -- for some reason they decided not to service those who don't use Microsoft software (plus lots of bugs in Javascript, plus invalid stylesheets, plus other issues). The excuse from the customer survices was "But the majority is using internet explorer" -- well, I heard that IT industry is not at its best, but inability of BoS just to find a decent HTML coder is appalling.

So, HSBC is cut out of the list as well.

Vadim

Where is this link from the HSBC web site?

Seems to belong to

Regards Sunil

Smile aren't perfect, but they do seem to i) reply to emails fairly promptly and, ii) get the answers right at least as often as my f2f bank did (probably more often). I haven't had to phone yet.

Thom

Source of

Since when a reputable company should hide its phone and fax numbers?

Vadim

RedSherrif spyware - If you look at the page source for

For more details of RedSherrif see

In message , Ronald Raygun writes

Or even the managers. Actually, HSBC can usually give a big lending decision either in the building or very close by, whereas other have to hand write forms for HO.

So? The spyware is a java applet running in your webbrowser. *nix is just as vunerable.

Fraser.

Yes, I've replied *before* investigating the sources too deep, hence false assumption. But since Java is off by default on my machines, I haven't noticed Measure.class .

Have server-uk.imrworldwide.com rejected in routing table.

Vadim