Gemmill 47073 Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 (edited) Good shit. Good for the region, good for the employees. No compulsory redundancies for at least three years. Virgin will continue to work with the foundation. The new headquarters for Virgin Money will be Newcastle. Edited November 17, 2011 by Gemmill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest alex Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 Good for you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeazesMag 0 Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5iA1wWgdNpkYNvB0j18aSVdJqPX2Q?docId=N0702521321521637294A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McFaul 35 Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 (edited) I know plenty who will be pleased. Hopefully they start treating their staff better. In fact just got a text the staff now get their birthday off, a day off for christmas shopping, and you can buy 5 days extra hols off the firm (32 days!), AND get discounts off all Virgin products. Edited November 17, 2011 by McFaul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 47073 Posted November 17, 2011 Author Share Posted November 17, 2011 I know plenty who will be pleased. Hopefully they start treating their staff better. In fact just got a text the staff now get their birthday off, a day off for christmas shopping, and you can buy 5 days extra hols off the firm (32 days!), AND get discounts off all Virgin products. aye we've just been checking virgin staff benefits. Apparently the discount scheme is canny good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McFaul 35 Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 That's some nice perks like, decent whack of holiday leave too, i thought i was doing well with 30 Haha I was knocking one out when I joined these at 25 days!!! Mind I get five weeks paid sickness annually too ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catmag 337 Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 Your birthday off and a day for Christmas shopping?! Are you working in Toytown?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McFaul 35 Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 Your birthday off and a day for Christmas shopping?! Are you working in Toytown?? I know a few people that work there, the person who I'm getting this info out is knocking one out! Well she would if she was a lad, but it sounds like the benefits are everything from CD's to cheap flights and holidays, I think I want to go back after 11 years!! Why did this not happen when I worked there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 47073 Posted November 17, 2011 Author Share Posted November 17, 2011 I already get 32 days. Is that 32 AFTER you've bought extra? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney 0 Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 Will flowchart output between you and your colleague be affected with all of these holidays? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McFaul 35 Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 I already get 32 days. Is that 32 AFTER you've bought extra? No apparently you can buy five extra days. So she's on 27 now that goes up to 32 if she buys them so you're looking at 7 and a half weeks if you choose to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 47073 Posted November 17, 2011 Author Share Posted November 17, 2011 Will flowchart output between you and your colleague be affected with all of these holidays? The young fella only gets 22 days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 47073 Posted November 17, 2011 Author Share Posted November 17, 2011 I already get 32 days. Is that 32 AFTER you've bought extra? No apparently you can buy five extra days. So she's on 27 now that goes up to 32 if she buys them so you're looking at 7 and a half weeks if you choose to. People seem to be buzzing here like. First good news day since I joined this place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 (edited) So nationalisation cost the taxpayer £650m if the sale price is £747m A tenner each. Quite good value.....for Gemmill's extra leave I mean. Edited November 17, 2011 by Happy Face Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McFaul 35 Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 I already get 32 days. Is that 32 AFTER you've bought extra? No apparently you can buy five extra days. So she's on 27 now that goes up to 32 if she buys them so you're looking at 7 and a half weeks if you choose to. People seem to be buzzing here like. First good news day since I joined this place. All we need now is Branson to buy the toon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 (edited) I already get 32 days. Is that 32 AFTER you've bought extra? No apparently you can buy five extra days. So she's on 27 now that goes up to 32 if she buys them so you're looking at 7 and a half weeks if you choose to. People seem to be buzzing here like. First good news day since I joined this place. All we need now is Branson to buy the toon. My first thought was "does this mean we'll be getting 'Virgin' on our shirts?" Used to laugh at Palace when they had it Edited November 17, 2011 by Happy Face Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 47073 Posted November 17, 2011 Author Share Posted November 17, 2011 So nationalisation cost the taxpayer £650m if the sale price is £747m A tenner each. Quite good value.....for Gemmill's extra leave I mean. I'll sort you out with some cut price Virgin cosmetics. It's the least I can do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt 0 Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 (edited) Typically miserable stuff from Peston on the BBC website with the unsurprising reaction from his loyal band of reactionist simpletons commenting about how terrible it is that taxpayers have 'made a loss' and lots of baddies are running away with suitcases full of cash. This is a good deal all round- the price paid is well above the current price for financial institutions. No-one will ever know the precise gain or loss on the nationalisation of Northern Rock and even roughly we won't know for years as NRAM unwinds. Good to have more high-street competition as well. Virgin has been brilliant in maintaining its 'noisy upstart' image which will probably fare extremely well given the current perception of most high-street banks. Edited November 17, 2011 by Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KeithJ 0 Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 Fantastic bit of business by Virgin to buy NR. They have done well in the Financial Services side however have not been able to break through in to the full retail banking side. Due to the brand image they hold of being cool, friendly and giving to customers then this could be a serious player in the banking side if they build it up nicely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 47073 Posted November 17, 2011 Author Share Posted November 17, 2011 Their cool image has just gone stratospheric since acquiring me this morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brock Manson 0 Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 Gemmil, sex god@toontastic working for virgin. Sounds about right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeazesMag 0 Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 Their cool image has just gone stratospheric since acquiring me this morning. you might have to start actually doing some work for a change Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney 0 Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 Will flowchart output between you and your colleague be affected with all of these holidays? The young fella only gets 22 days. Any resentment there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 47073 Posted November 17, 2011 Author Share Posted November 17, 2011 A smidgen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooj 17 Posted November 17, 2011 Share Posted November 17, 2011 Was at a meeting across the road from the Northern Rock office in Gosforth this morning and there was some bint from the BBC asking me if I worked for them and if so could she have an intervirw. Suffice to say I gave her Gemmill's details instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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