Fraud

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Worked in the bank for 5 and a bit years.

I just went for the dosh Islay, knew they were pretty corrupt organisation but went to do 2 years then get out, did 5 and a bit as I say in a boiler house type environment.

I've often wondered if the image of the bowler hat pin stripe pillar of the community banker ever existed or it was a myth.

All I saw was spivs, shysters and higher management who were as thick as two short planks.

When I started work with the Bank of Scptland the manager of the Head Office branch of the Royal Bank, 3 High Street Dundee used wear a bowler hat when walking to his work.
All the Male members of staff wore a dark suit which was usually pin striped. That was back in the days when banking was a profession and a job for life. Bank staff knew all their customers.
Now working in a bank is just a job which for a spell was target driven. I do not know if that is still the case.
I remember the staff in the Bank of Scotland branch in Bowmore, Islay trying to persuade myself and my wife to change our bank account onto online banking.
I refused and told them that they were digging their own grave.
The Bank of Scotland branch in Bowmore is now a sub office of the Campbeltown branch and bank branches have been closed throughout the whole of the U.K.
That being said there back in the 1970’s and 1980’s were too many bank branches as a result of mergers with the management of the banks frightened to close branches in case of a public and union backlash.
Now there are too few branches but people can no use their local post offices for a lot of their banking requirements. Even businesses can use their local post office.