Posts Tagged ‘bonus’
STOP THIEVES! £9 Million Banker Robbers
HSBC’s new chief executive Stuart Gulliver has been awarded a £5.2 million bonus for 2010 on top of his £1 million salary. His predecessor, Michael Geoghegan, gets a £3.8 million bonus on top of a £2 million salary.
It will be little comfort to the taxpayers of Britain that Douglas Flint, HSBC’s chairman, said the group would “not forget” the financial crisis and support from governments around the world, and that they entered 2011 “with humility”. These are crocodile tears of the most insincere and deceitful kind.
STOP THIEF! £1.45 Million Banker Robber.
Lloyds Bank, 41% owned by you and me, is doling out a £1.45 million bonus to fat cat Eric Daniels.
True, he’s not quite as corpulent as his fellow banker robber, Stephen Hester of RBS, but then I don’t think either of them will be going hungry anytime soon – unlike the millions who they rip off and exploit every day.
He’s retiring next month. I expect his senior years promise much more comfort and joy than other pensioners have to look forward to.
Daniels said he was “highly satisfied”.
Banker Robbers Bonus Blackmail
We’re told that the banks have to pay big bonuses in order to retain and attract the right staff. We’re told that unless we shell out millions to these mysterious unnamed individuals, these “masters of the universe”, that we can kiss goodbye to the money we’ve already put in. We’ll be damaging our own investment.
Twaddle! Rubbish! Bulls**t! Bollo**s!
These people aren’t doctors or scientists or lawyers or architects – or even plumbers or electricians. They’re blaggers. Nothing more, nothing less. All they’re doing with these ridiculous claims is trying to blag us all over again. Their job is little different from that of an advertising salesman who sits on the phone all day and maybe makes £1000 or £2000 a week. In fact, many salesman have much wider knowledge, better people skills and sharper brains than these wide boys in the city that have nerve, greed and little else to offer.
This is just an attempt to blackmail us. There are tens of thousands of bright, keen, hungry people out there who could do these bankers’ jobs with very little difficulty. In fact, fresh new blood that hasn’t been corrupted by the past would be a much better idea. We could recruit from the world of advertising, from market traders flogging fruit, vegetables, meat, fish and “knock off”. Why not just pick a few MBA graduates at random or take the top banking graduates from last year and give them the big jobs?
None of these people could do any worse than the sharks who got us into this trouble in the first place. Those, like Stephen Hester of RBS, who have taken over recently are no better. They’re still infected with the same ways as before. After Chief Thief Goodwin has had his turn in the trough they’re just elbowing through for their own go.
There is no special expertise or skill required to be a banker. Don’t let these charlatans and sons of charlatans tell you any different.
Don’t wait for the RBS directors’ resignations. Sack them now for having the audacity to try and pull the wool over our eyes once again.