Banks and Bailiffs

[mollykins]

Oh dear, a Santader branch near me got the baliffs called in the other day ebcause they hadn't paid the rent on the shops. That must have been embarassing.

(sorry no link to the story as it was in a local paper only)

Have you heard of anything similar happening?

[ChuckFickens]

No.

[joko]

mmm...the amount of modification needed on a building to accomodate that much cash, vaults, security, equipment etc ...surely im not alone in finding it hard to believe they rent the buildings rather than buy... you dont just rock up with a few tills and a cashpoint and call yourself a bank...

anyone know ?

[dotty.]

many town centre buildings are rented, the sally arny own half of wigan town centre and there are several banks in there

[redcrx]

link found by googling santander and bailiffs.

These things happen. probably just an oversight

[spudqueen]

Many years ago Natwest rented two large buildings in London. They built a connecting bridge between the two, only to find that they hadn't actually asked the landlords permission. Ooh, er..............

[Buenchico]

Here's your link, Molly:
http://www.lowestoftj..._bailiffs_in_1_780355

[scotman]

These things happen. A few years ago a pub near where I used to live had to shut for 3 months because someone forgot to renew the licence.

[Buenchico]

When I worked at a railway station, the emergency phone in the multi-storey car park's lift automatically dialled the phone in the station supervisor's office. If that call wasn't answered within a couple of minutes it was then automatically sent to the supervisor's mobile phone, so that it couldn't possibly be ignored. We pointed out to senior management that the flaw in the system was that nobody actually knew how to release people from a broken down lift if they received an emergency call. It took a year before we were given training in the correct emergency procedure.

We then pointed out that the procedure we'd been given meant getting into the motor room for the lift, but none of us had a key. It took another year before we were supplied with keys.

Eventually the day came when the lift broke down, with a passenger inside it. He picked up the emergency phone, so that we could take his call and spring into action. Unfortunately he found that the line was dead because nobody had bothered to pay the mysterious phone bills which the company had been receiving, simply addressed to 'The Lift, London Eastern Railway'.

(The guy had to use his mobile phone to call the fire brigade. As he was a solicitor, he then sought hefty compensation from the rail company).

[DTCwordfan]

When the Natural Gas market was deregulating back in the mid 90s, British Gas had meters for their gas under them in an underground station in London and they didn't know that they were for their offices above. It took us as a competitor to identify them.

[Buenchico]

Also, Rochester ceased to be a city (and reverted to being a town) because nobody ever got round to appointing the necessary trustees for their charter.

[Buenchico]

And another:
I once spent ages trying to explain to the AA's call centre where I was with a broken down vehicle. I repeatedly told him that I was on Basing View, in Basingstoke. He refused to accept that the road existed, and asked me to spell it for him several times. Eventually he asked me if their was any landmark which his computer system might recognise. I politely pointed out that the vehicle was on the car park of the AA's national HQ!

And another:
The council completed the building of a multi-storey car park in Clacton before anyone noticed that it had been built in the wrong place and that, because of insufficient clearance, it was impossible to drive any vehicles into it.

[ChuckFickens]

Halfords website was off-line for several hours last week simply because somebody forgot to renew the halfords.com domain name.

Bet that cost somebody a job!