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Post by mids on Oct 29, 2018 8:22:08 GMT
Fire!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2018 8:24:55 GMT
You're gonna burn...
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Post by perrykneeham on Oct 29, 2018 9:28:38 GMT
Kindle Fire.
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Post by nobody on Oct 29, 2018 14:27:13 GMT
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
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Post by perrykneeham on Jun 23, 2019 13:12:26 GMT
More captains of commerce turning out to be nothing more than second rate bullshitters: "Image copyrightGETTY IMAGES Five people have been arrested and questioned over alleged accounting fraud at the Patisserie Valerie chain, the Serious Fraud Office has said. The arrests took place last Tuesday, 18 June, in a joint operation with police, the SFO said. The move comes eight months after the firm's former finance director, Chris Marsh, was arrested and freed on bail." www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48736447
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Post by perrykneeham on Oct 15, 2023 12:56:13 GMT
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Post by flatandy on Oct 15, 2023 13:31:51 GMT
Hmmm? Isn't the UK prosecution service meant to be independent of politics?
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Post by perrykneeham on Oct 15, 2023 13:40:36 GMT
I don't think it was the CPS , but the Insolvency Service. The penalties were pretty weak sauce anyway: being disbarred from being a company director for a few years (whoop-di-doo). These tossers have probably retired now anyway, no doubt on juicy final salary pensions.
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Post by flatandy on Oct 15, 2023 13:46:05 GMT
So they weren't in line for actual prosecution despite massive corruption, and they've been let off the hook for even the tiny penalties that were lined up by their friends in high places?
This is the way capitalism is meant to work.
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Post by perrykneeham on Oct 15, 2023 13:53:27 GMT
Capitalism certainly has its limits, but this is simple corruption. Too many snouts in the trough.
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Post by mids on Oct 15, 2023 15:12:07 GMT
Crapitalism, more like.
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Post by perrykneeham on Oct 16, 2023 14:50:01 GMT
"The banker later admitted that he had shared meals with his partner. He also said that he was having personal difficulties following the death of his grandmother, had taken six weeks of medical leave and was on strong medication when he replied to emails." www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-67121456What a dickhead.
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Post by flatandy on Oct 16, 2023 15:09:38 GMT
Expenses claims like this are an odd space, though. Obviously, you shouldn't lie, particularly if your expenses are queried. But if you're allowed 100 Euro a day and end up buying only 2 sandwiches and 2 coffees and spending 30 euro for 2 people rather than going and spending the full 100 euro on yourself like most banking cunts would, you're not doing any harm and I think you might claim without a red face that you're well within the spirit of the rule (which is to not spend more than 100 euro of your employers cash on caviar and foie gras) even if you're outside the letter of them.
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Post by perrykneeham on Oct 16, 2023 15:15:13 GMT
Yeah, it's the silly fibbing rather than the petty fiddling wot dun him.
I found the excuses particularly pathetic and sack worthy.
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Post by Repat Van on Oct 16, 2023 15:15:21 GMT
Expenses claims like this are an odd space, though. Obviously, you shouldn't lie, particularly if your expenses are queried. But if you're allowed 100 Euro a day and end up buying only 2 sandwiches and 2 coffees and spending 30 euro for 2 people rather than going and spending the full 100 euro on yourself like most banking cunts would, you're not doing any harm and I think you might claim without a red face that you're well within the spirit of the rule (which is to not spend more than 100 euro of your employers cash on caviar and foie gras) even if you're outside the letter of them. Most places I have worked, the daily limit is a guide. I would not be able to argue that, since I was under the limit, spending cash on non-employees should be fine. That would be viewed as gross misconduct. Unless it was not a reimbursement limit but rather a daily stipend (in which case you do not have to justify your expenditure. In fact it’s always been practice to list all the participants in meals and managers would check against expenditure. It was stupid of him to lie as I doubt Citibank’s policy is that much different to a lot of other banks, professional services firms, engineering etc. The fact he took them to court suggests he was a bit of a t.wat.
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Post by Repat Van on Oct 16, 2023 15:16:27 GMT
That said - dismissing him over one false claim and a lie is pretty extreme which kind of suggests they wanted a reason to get rid of him anyway.
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Post by perrykneeham on Oct 16, 2023 15:17:45 GMT
That's true. He sounds like he was hardly Employee of the Year.
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