Yes, 3,000 jobs to be cut as announced today, then there's ex-CEO Fred Goodwin falling on his ball-point pen and, most crucially of all, the end of my contract a couple of weeks ago.
All in all though, the 3,000 job cuts is an eminently sensible move in my eyes, if it is solely related to the Global Banking Markets, a particularly loss-making part of the bank at the current time. It's also an area that can be scaled back to ensure the group goes back to 'core' business which seems to be the unanimous view of how the banking world will be post-Credit Crunch.
So although my own job prospects continue to look decidedly dodgy once the travelling is over, I don't think today's news of worldwide job cuts when the RBS share price is hovering around the 50p mark is really that bad.
Furthermore, I am sure the nightmare scenario for those at the top level of the bank is being bought over, they certainly want to avoid all the Lloyds / Bank of China hullaballoo at the moment. The only takeover discussions ever known regarding RBS occurred a while back when HSBC sized up a move for the bank.
Thankfully nothing materialised then and, if RBS continue making these sensible decisions, then nothing will in the short term future either.
Still, it'd be nice seeing that share price shoot up a little bit!
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I note that the job cuts (at least at this moment in time) are to be in London.
Although I have sympathy for any poor bugger losing their job at this time, I'm unaccustomed to Scottish employees not being the first to fall and feel this shows the true value of indigenous businesses.
As business wanes, the heart of a company generally receives the greatest protection (albeit that this particular case is more about operational matters).
This is where Scotland has always suffered disproportionately as non indigenous businesses recoil to base.
In a monstrously centralised UK, it makes a great deal of sense for larger companies to base themselves in the South East - primarily to be in proximity to the governmental / administrative apparatus that is concentrated there.
It makes sense, of course, for a Scottish government in a devolved Scotland to encourage the formation of new small businesses, but the rub is that as these businesses grow (and our economy grows with them) there usually comes a time when it makes sense for them to base operations nearer central govt.
It seems to me that it will ever be thus in our present constitutional arrangement.
Whilst there will always be a metropolitan pull which snatches many of our best and brightest (individuals as well as businesses), I feel that a powerful counterpoint in an independent Scotland would put the brakes on.
I've struggled to express myself elegantly here but hopefully that doesn't obscure my point.
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