check your balance/ online banking statement. There's been a glitch with HSBC's IT systems that mean outgoing BACS transfers from their business customers haven't got through for some reason - see
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-34084767 (despite the headline, it's not an issue with whether you are an HSBC customer, but whether the people who were trying to pay you are). It's particularly important if your mortgage or other direct debits were set up to come out today, as if not having the money in your account is going to send you over your overdraft limit, you're at risk of bank charges.
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The normal bankers earn 16-30k depending on what they do are forced to work incredibly hard and have had what little bonus they used to get ( usually £100-200 a year) cut completely because of bad publicity and peoples ignorance about how banks work! And for many people on that sort of money £200 makes a big difference to them!
I agree this sort of system failure should not be allowed but your statement was either sarcastic or incredibly ignorant!
I am sorry for anyone who is affected by this! But once you do get paid take a trip into branch and see someone. They will waive any overdraft fees and can compensate you up to £250.
Unless ur on a sales based commission job then you don't deserve a bonus for simply doing a job that your paid to do to ur highest ability
And I never think I deserve a bonus so I never reward myself with one
If I want more money it's simple I do more hours and don't go fishing or football
You expect a bonus for taking money out of a draw and passing it through a gap in a window ?
Perhaps they should have spent this on a better IT system.
It does lead to a bit of a skills shortage and very good money if you're capable of working with their required tech.
I stand to be corrected, but from the software engineering contract side of things this is what I've seen and heard.
So I think blaming the bankers for taking bonuses isn't really relevant. Updating systems on that scale NEEDS to be done but is utterly terrifying from a technical perspective. There's a good story somewhere online about a trading platform that went bust purely because they transitioned their IT infrastructure and a developer left a debug option on, adding a very small amount of overhead to the software but meaning during trading time it couldn't keep up and transactions were lost. (Alas, that's a whole other rant as you'd have a distributed queuing system to avoid that outcome.)
It's actually quite refreshing in comparison to medical technology projects I've worked on; where new technologies have been thrown at problems that rely upon archaic protocols (PACS via HL7 etc) and rather worryingly issues have been ironed out during production. (I can only speak on behalf of private insurance companies and hospitals there.)
You charge 50 quid for a tile that has black and white triangles on it.
I know who is contributing more to society.
Part of being a bank employee is a bonus system. For most clerks in a branch, who earn £16000, the their bonus might be on a good year £1200. Hardly , time to get a new Porsche .