HSBC verbietet Weihnachtspullover für Mitarbeiter nach Kritik einiger Kunden
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/hsbc-bans-christmas-jumpers-for-staff-after-backlash-from-some-customers-5HjdP2m_2/
Von tylerthe-theatre
HSBC verbietet Weihnachtspullover für Mitarbeiter nach Kritik einiger Kunden
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/hsbc-bans-christmas-jumpers-for-staff-after-backlash-from-some-customers-5HjdP2m_2/
Von tylerthe-theatre
16 Kommentare
To be fair not all Christmas jumpers are merry.
My kid has a Grinch one and I have a Nightmare before Christmas one.
It was because they were either wearing them during difficult conversations (financial problems, bereavement) or having to remember to take the jumpers on and off. In case anyone wanted to skip reading the article and jump to the outrage
What kind of Christmas jumpers though?
Snow and reindeer aren’t exactly childish or immature
>Branches have been told they are spaces where customers received support with financial difficulties and bereavements.
Make sense to me, if its a customer facing role. Business as usual all year round.
Bit of a non story then? Or, a cynical attempt at insinuating *something* else…
Does wearing Christmas clothes make difficult conversations actually harder?
This makes perfect sense. There are lots of jobs where it’s better to just make a donation and not wear the jumper, including mine
Jesus Christ, it’s a bank not a funeral directors. Why has everyone become so soft?
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Seem a strange argument as no other bank is having to resort to this.
It’s a business setting, where people conduct serious business. Staff should dress like that.
It sounds like the entitled kids in school who bleated throughout December “we shouldn’t have to do work, it’s Christmas” are now in the workplace.
“Mr Bank Manager, on Christmas Eve, can we bring in games and not serve any customers?”
What sort of fucknut complains about a Christmas jumper
Christmas jumpers shouldn’t have a place in corporate environments period. I go to these places for professional services, they ought to be professional.
The only logical explanation is:
If you show any dissatisfaction with anything to do with a regulated financial institution they have to log it. Literally if you say you don’t like the hold music, that’s a reportable complaint.
Oh god the papers must be so excited to get to post this slop and hope to stoke the flames of division.
People are such wetwipes. Focus on the financial information, not their fucking jumper.
Yeah… I’m not a fan of this.
I understand that some customers will be going through difficult moments, and receiving bad news can make anything feel heavier but that isn’t the fault of the front-line staff.
Asking employees to suppress something small and harmless that brings them and no doubt other customers a bit of holiday cheer feels unnecessary. It risks punishing staff for circumstances they can’t control, and it starts to sound a bit… Grinch-like.
Additionally… to those that complain, do you really want to hear bad news from a corporate stiff in a black suit? Isn’t something more human and expressive better?