Humour

Jul 8, 2013

Holiday Humour #1: Quotes about Money

I'm officially on a holiday for the next two weeks and so will probably not blog, although you never know. Therefore, in the spirit of keeping in touch with my favourite subject – money – I'm going to leave a few musings, or amuse bouche thoughts if you prefer, about this over the next two…

Jun 21, 2013

The customer is … not always right

I just found a great website called Not Always Right that tells the staff side of humorous or challenging customer experiences in the USA. It’s brilliant. Here are my faves that relate to banks. FIRST: FREEDOM ISN’T FREE (I’m a bank teller at a large national bank. A customer in her mid-twenties comes up to…

May 31, 2013

Is the Governor of the Bank of England lost at sea?

We have several national British Treasures: Buckingham Palace, the Queen, the Houses of Parliament, Bruce Forsyth, Chicken Tikka Masala; but a new one is bidding for glory. Sir Mervyn King, the outgoing Governor of the Bank of England. A massive tennis fan … … and supporter of Aston Villa … And now he’s making a…

May 28, 2013

There’s an elephant in the room

There’s an elephant in the room. Isn’t that a lovely phrase? It’s meant to say there’s something so big that’s in your sphere of business (or life) that it can no longer be ignored. For Barack Obama, it’s terrorism. For David Cameron, it’s the economy. For Chris Skinner, it’s ubiquitous connectivity. There are other elephants…

May 10, 2013

Sir Ranulph Fiennes caught trying to rob a bank

Like others in the conference hall, I felt a sense of awe as the world’s greatest living explorer, Sir Ranulph ‘Ran’ Fiennes, took to the stage to recount some of the stories about his life and travels, including the day he was in court over trying to rob a bank. Bear in mind, this is…

Apr 5, 2013

Monkeys should be given billion dollar bonuses

It’s amazing how often Monkeys and Money come up in conversation. First, there is the proof that money is in our DNA like sex. Monkeys proved it in a Yale University exercise back in 2009. Second, monkeys are continually used to prove that they can invest better than fund managers. A bit like monkeys make…

Apr 5, 2013

Monkeys should be given billion dollar bonuses

Mar 28, 2013

Princess to Queen

They say that women control most of the spending in the world (or is that men in the world?), so I was amused to see this advert for Citibank during my recent trip to India, as it appeals to this share of wallet. You may disagree, until I heard my male colleague say: “Yes, and…

Mar 28, 2013

Princess to Queen

Mar 21, 2013

It’s Thursday so the banks will open

Theo Ousalotmoney: OK guys, time to open the bank. Brancho Tellerous: Oxi (no) … we have no money. Theo: Waddya mean, we have no money? We are a bank? Tellerous: Yes sir, but we are a Cypriot Bank. Theo: So? Tellerous: That means we’re broke. Theo: No we’re not as we’re not Greek. We’re Russian….