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Keith Appleyard - available for hire - Bromley | 31/03/2009 | 2446 views

Neither a Customer nor a Client or a Stakeholder be .....

The UK Local Government Association has compiled a banned list of the 200 worst uses of jargon, with "coterminosity" & "predictors of beaconicity" prominent in most press reports. The Council Leaders say such words and phrases must be avoided for staff to "communicate effectively". The list includes suggested translations of some terms, such a... Group: Whatever...

Keith Appleyard - available for hire - Bromley | 19/03/2009 | 2867 views | 3 comments

A bad banker and a dishonourable man.

I thought the Fred Goodwin saga was over, but it seems to run and run, so I thought I'd put in my two-penn'th The old RBS Pension plan allowed staff to retire at 60 on two thirds of their final salary after a 40-year career. If Goodwin was treated like any other RBS employee, then his actual service since 1998, plus pensionable service transferre... Tags: Retail bankingGroup: Whatever...

Keith Appleyard - available for hire - Bromley | 19/03/2009 | 2431 views | 1 comment

How to Punish the Bankers - in the good old days

From The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (as sent by Colin Knox to Private Eye) : "AD1125 In this year sent the King Henry, before Christmas, from Normandy to England, and bade that all the mint-men that were in England should be mutilated in their limbs; that was, that they should lose each of them the right hand, and their testicles beneath. This was beca... Tags: Risk & regulationGroup: Whatever...

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