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That’s got to sting

Barclays bank, who announced £7 billion profits this year, have been fined a whopping £50,000 for making creepy phonecalls. That’ll learn ‘em.

‘As a result, we offer a full apology for any inconvenience and distress to our customers that these calls caused,’ said a Barclays drone. Not, you’ll notice however, for the ‘inconvenience and distress to our call centre workers’ whose being treated like shit in automated call centres led to the problem of ’silent calls’ in the first place.

Still, 50 grand, eh?


Posted on September 26th, 2008 at 5:41pm under Miscellaneous misanthropy

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  1. Philip (248 comments.) on 27.09.2008 at 00:44 Permalink | Reply

    Irritating Thought for the Day: it helps if you test links before posting.

    Philip´s latest blog post… International Brotherhood

  2. Larry Teabag (94 comments.) on 27.09.2008 at 02:57 Permalink | Reply

    …or indeed after posting.

    Larry Teabag´s latest blog post… The only thing hood about him’s the skin on his clitoris

  3. Justin on 27.09.2008 at 10:29 Permalink | Reply

    Aw, bollocks. Fixed now.

  4. Sim-O (92 comments.) on 27.09.2008 at 22:50 Permalink | Reply

    The call centre equivalent of battery hens.

    Sim-O´s latest blog post… On silent banking

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