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Lloyds bankers go to comedy school

Simon Ward
by Lovemoney Staff Simon Ward on 09 December 2011  |  Comments 7 comments

It’s no joke! Part-nationalised bank sends department heads on two-day workshop.

Lloyds bankers go to comedy school

Part-nationalised Lloyds Banking Group has sent ten senior staff members to workshops run by the London-based Comedy School.

Details of the training were featured in the latest issue of the bank’s internal magazine. The bank’s HR department claimed the courses were offered to “challenge our talent to learn and develop skills that will drive our business forward in an innovative and truly engaging way.”

But it’s almost impossible to resist the urge to comment that the situation at the bank is no laughing matter at the moment.

Shares have plummeted in the wake of Chief Executive Antonio Horta-Osorio being signed off with stress and extreme fatigue.

The board is reported to be assessing whether he should return to his post or not.

The share price decline means that the taxpayer stake in the bank is now worth £13 billion less than when it was bought.

It is also being forced to sell 632 branches in order to meet European competition rules following its bailout.

New player NBNK and the Co-operative Group are favourites to take over the branches.

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Comments (7)

  • Yorkstyke
    Love rating 71
    Yorkstyke said

    Proves that the saying: "Bankers are Wan*ers" is true!

    Report on 19 December 2011  |  Love thisLove  0 loves
  • keirfamily
    Love rating 1
    keirfamily said

    Basically we have to take back control of our money, and stop the bankers using our money to pay themselves obscene 'bonuses'. Read "Where are the clients' yachts?" to see how bad this already is.

    To achieve this we'll have to -

    - get mortgages from a mutual building society (not one owned by a bank) or the Co-op bank

    - stop using credit cards - or at least stop having a balance on them at the end of the month

    - take responsibility for our own pensions (or at least SIPS)

    - get out of "special" bank accounts with monthly charges

    - get our money back from savings accounts paying less than, say, 3% p.a.

    You have to look around (working to get control of your money will not be easy but it will be worthwhile) but this is possible. If 3% is too difficult, then make sure of 2%; but get out of anything paying less than 1% immediately. Why should the banks make profits off our money, without paying us for lending it to them?

    Basically we need to starve the banks of the money they want to rip off us. If you're not doing that you have no right to complain when you get robbed stupid.

    Do something about it, don't just moan and repeat yesterday's mistakes.

    Report on 22 December 2011  |  Love thisLove  0 loves

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