Rbs

[J]

Well **** you, i'm loving my 10.8 % pay rise, and My defferred bonus..

 

[Sussex Shrimper]

The government could have stepped in to do something about Fred the Shred's ridiculous pension after all:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7912651.stm

Never mind the burden on the taxpayer, eh Fred?

 

[Einstein]

Well **** you, i'm loving my 10.8 % pay rise, and My defferred bonus..

That is exactly what most of the city traders were thinking this time last year though...

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Shamefully, that is just the human race these days. Nothing to do with just the UK.

As I have daily dealings with a wide range of countries, the UK definitely employs some of the hardest working people in the world.

Try doing business with someone in the Caribbean. One day I received a the staggering response of "I'm by the office pool. It's just too hot today to work man" said in the best Caribbean accent possible. That's just the tip of the iceberg of some of the response. Sometimes I'm completely baffled whether they are joking or not.

They don't need sick notes. They just do as they please.

You do get people with that attitude in Britain, it is just that they tend to be working in the public sector.

Getting a response from a government department/agency on a Friday afternoon is near on impossible.

I suppose it is because the private sector is more heavily incentivised - which takes us back to RBS and bankers' pay. RBS will have to pay the market rate or will suffer as all the hard-working and able staff will move elsewhere.