I have been credit crunched!

You've only just noticed this?
Damn.. my company takes MONTHS to pay it workers expenses. God knows what it takes 'em to pay the big bills! :S

You've only just noticed this?
Damn.. my company takes MONTHS to pay it workers expenses. God knows what it takes 'em to pay the big bills! :S

no. things got better a few years ago and nearly everyone paid around 30days, now it's slipping back to 60-90.

HSBC learned their lesson when they tried to charge me for going over my account balance. In Oz, once you hit $0, that's it, no more cash. Here, they let you continue and then charge the shit out of you for it. Call 'em up and don't put the phone down until they've removed the charges (or sorted out whatever issue you have). Moved Mal to HSBC after the jismlickers at Barclays wouldn't pay out on her phone insurance that she'd been paying for 2 years..

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I'm with First Direct. It's HSBC for people who want customer service.

(No doubt I've just jinxed myself there).

I'm an HSBC employee. First Direct is for people who want higher interest and are willing to trade in branch banking for it. You people are great as you create a lot less work for us in Branch.

Solo cards are just standard cards like any other debit card you have. If you can argue a good case then you should (and this is often down to the person that you speak to) negotiate some sort of overdraft.

HSBC, as far as I know, has the strongest position of any international bank at this present time. Maybe they are just trying to keep it that way.

Are share price went up 2% the other day when everyone else was loosing a lot of money (are shares have still been up and down).

Are share price went up 2% the other day when everyone else was loosing a lot of money (are shares have still been up and down).

Why does this make me very very scared?

because, Clive, someone who handles other peoples' money seems to write 'are' instead of 'our'. Or is 'are' a recondite banking term?

"Solo cards are just standard cards like any other debit card you have."

Except you can't buy train tickets with them.. or plane tickets.. or concert tickets.. or.. or..

because, Clive, someone who handles other peoples' money seems to write 'are' instead of 'our'. Or is 'are' a recondite banking term?

'Recondite' eminently rep-worthy. Not allowed, malheuresement...
keep up, schri

and I so want that third green box.

"Solo cards are just standard cards like any other debit card you have."

Except you can't buy train tickets with them.. or plane tickets.. or concert tickets.. or.. or..

Sorry that was my mistake. I was thinking of cirrus/meastro cards.

I was using the term "are" to describe the HSBC as a whole. I dumped my shares over the summer when it looked like this was going to happen.

still doesn't make sense: "are share price went up"?

still doesn't make sense: "are share price went up"?

The other day when every other "UK" bank recorded a loss the price of are HSBC shares went up 2% meaning that we were making a slight profit and passing some of it onto the share holders of the HSBC.

what? am I just being stupid? What does 'are' mean in this context?

what? am I just being stupid? What does 'are' mean in this context?

Oh sorry. When I said "are" I was refering to the HSBC's.

ok, you're just messing with my head aren't you?
By the way are you related to Malcom X?

ok, you're just messing with my head aren't you?
By the way are you related to Malcom X?

Well I work for the HSBC and we have the idea that we are part of the bank drummed into are heads relentlessly.

No but I don't use my surname unless its on something official so have just written an "X" in its place for as long as I can really remember.

Duh, wiganwill, you fucking thicko. It would've been wrong if he'd said, "is share prices went up", because shares our plural.

and I so want that third green box.

Keep up repelling the retards and it's a cert by the end of next week, I'd say...

I'm just trying to work out how the banking industry got into the mess that it did. Perhaps Mr X is the CEO of HSBC?

ok,
you're just messing with my head aren't you?
By the way our you related to Malcom X?

Translated into banker-speak.

please help me! I am famously gullible - a colleague once persuaded me that couriers' bikes were going to be fitted with number plates and let me rant and rave for ten minutes before I realised. I rely on the kindness of strangers; that post doesn't make sense does it? 'Are' is wrong isn't it? It should be 'our' shouldn't it? Please! I've got one of my headaches coming on.

thankyou Platini

My grammer is terrible. I apologise.

Malcolm X?

Translated into English/American.