* Posts by officedog

3 publicly visible posts • joined 24 Jul 2017

Anon man suing Google wants crim conviction to be forgotten

officedog

Re: Let me get this straight...

I believe that in the case of FCA approval, even spent convictions can be a factor in the application process;

"We take all criminal convictions seriously. However, crimes where the individual has acted with

dishonesty are of particular concern, even when the convictions are ‘spent’. This is because we

must assess whether to approve someone to perform a controlled function(s) relating to other

people’s finances. Parliament has recognised this by giving us a specific exemption to the

Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974."

https://www.fca.org.uk/publication/archive/fsa-factsheet-approval.pdf

officedog

Surely, it's the fact he committed the crime and not the article about it that would cause any issues setting up an investment company. Removing the document does not change the fact he did commit the crime.

Nationwide’s online banking goes down again

officedog

Re: Work overran by at least 12 hours

Unfortunately, this is not always feasible and it does sometimes make sense to see operations through even if it means extending the maintenance. I have first hand experience of an issue with a production database where indexes where being added and there was a underestimation of the time it would take. The decision was made to roll it back, which essentially meant cancelling the operation and letting the engine roll back. When the change was rescheduled with a bigger window, it actually only took another 1 hour on top of where the 'no-go' decision was made. The rollback however took a lot longer...