You might hope that a Spanish bank taking over a British retail bank would avoid the Spanish-specific mistakes made by the last Spanish bank to take over a British retail bank, especially having been warned about them, but you'd be wrong about that, too
Posts by Airborne Cigar
8 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Jan 2011
Listen up you bunch of bankers. Here are some pointers for less crap IT
Twilight of the sundials: Archaic timepiece dying out and millennials are to blame, reckons boffin
The future of radio may well be digital, but it won't survive on DAB
The healing hands of customer support get an acronym: Do YOU have 'tallah-toe-big'?
75 years ago, one Allied radar techie changed the course of WW2
Russia launches non-terrifying satellite that focuses Sun's solar rays onto Earth
Nice computers don’t need to go to the toilet, says Barclays
Thursday 31st July 2014 13:10 GMT
So tell me, what's life like in your alternative dimension?
I understand that a lot of techies have problems communicating with homo sapiens in person, but in the world I inhabit, London minimum-wage staff are no worse than most.
Conversely, self -service checkouts don't keep you waiting while they natter with other people, nor do they short change you, and the simple failures they indulge in are easily resolved by human intervention, unlike their human counterparts.
But through the Looking Glass, you seem to have a different world...