It is not often i go to town, and i've not been for ages down on the moor so i do not know if this is done oftern or is someone already asked on the forum.

We just got of the bus on the moor just after 12ish, and my freind says "do you hear that cheering goin off ". At first i thought it was the football ground or something, til we saw a quiet few people hangin out of the window above the royal bank of scotland waveing and shouting "hello sheffield" and "good morning/afternoon sheffield" :loopy:.
And then shouting and cheering even after they shut the window, and it did go on for a wile as we had to use the hole in the wall with a few other people standing scared to go into the bank, Now i do not know if it was some kind of stress relife for the staff or i do not know if it anything to do with the bank but it did stop my mate from goin into the bank just in case it had something to do with them and she had to sign up to some strange cult or something. Just want to know so next time my freind wont be so scared to visit her bank. And did any of you lot on the forum hear this or was you even one of these people doing this as to be honest i found it funny even if my mate was scared.

I think it a motivational talk for a marketing company They have offices above the bank) and the weekly award giving ceremonies for topsales people.

Amazed the bank staff haven't started shouting back. Must drive them loopy.

I worked near by and heard the same. I have seen groups of young people clutching bags hanging around near the burger van at Wickes carpark discussing sales tactics then had the same people knocking at my door wanting me to change electric companies.

And this motivates people ?????

They have obviously got that friday feeling

IT'S THE WEEKEND!:clap: :partyhat: :clap:

Yup, it's a motivational thing for sales people. I, like many, can't stand sales people and would suggest we burn the place down while there's a high number of them in one place. Come on, we will be doing society a favour ;)

they've been paid ;)

Well thankyou for your replys. I did say on the lines to my friend that it could be something like what you all just said but i was not to sure, but no one had a clue what was going off out side the bank. I never seen a bank so empty in my life at dinner time, people was so scared to go into the place, But made me giggle anyhow and a i got a few bruises from my mate pokeing me in the side as i waved back, she thought i was egging them on or something.

Well, to each their own but that kind of behaviour by my employers would motivate me to do only one thing - walk out, never to return!

It's all part of the American influence I believe but even so it's cringeworthy stuff.

.........But made me giggle anyhow and a i got a few bruises from my mate pokeing me in the side as i waved back, she thought i was egging them on or something.

You waved back at them? :hihi: :hihi:
I love that... maybe we could all meet up outside the bank and all wave and cheer together.

You waved back at them? :hihi: :hihi:
I love that... maybe we could all meet up outside the bank and all wave and cheer together.


:hihi: I did i just found it so funny for somereason that i just waved back but Mel my mate did not like it, she was like dont egg the looneys on any more , even workmen could not stop laughing at them for a wile.

yeah, their team leaders get them all to tell themselves that they've got a great job, life's good, they're happy and all that......keeps em going as they get so many people telling them to quit annoying them on their cold crappy calling jobs. with highs, there are lows

Well, to each their own but that kind of behaviour by my employers would motivate me to do only one thing - walk out, never to return!


Me too! All seems looney-tunes to me :loopy: but then again I'm not a sales/marketing type person. I just couldn't take 'motivational talks' seriously - I'd be laughing my head off, then heading for the door.

I find this dress-down Friday nonsense some employers have introduced (American-influenced, of course) equally ridiculous. Some years ago I was unfortunate enough to be temping at a large bank where they had this daft practice of dress-down Friday. But even then it wasn't every Friday and it was treated like a priviledge - if we were all good boys and girls and did very well at our work, we might be allowed to - shock, horror - wear JEANS at work on the Friday!!!! :loopy:

Ooooh! That's going to make me work SO hard! :suspect: I actually found it very insulting - almost like we were being treated like children. In fact, I'd say it was distinctly DE-motivating. What was frightening, though, was that no-one else seemed to find it bizarre - certainly the permanent members of staff seemed to take it all very seriously. Saddoes.

StarSparkle

Dress down Friday isn't so bad and is fairly commonplace now. I have to agree though that selling it as a reward is absurd.

Worse still is making employees pay for the privilege of 'dressing down'. Sorry, I should say 'asking' employees to contribute to a charity collection. Yeh right!

Oooh me! pick me! I know this one!

It's a bunch of marketing people who go round peoples houses getting people to change to Npower. My girlfriend used to work there (they treated her like sh*t, but that's another story), and they do the cheering when they announce who's made the most money that week.

I hate those Npower door to door types. But they're not allowed to lie, so when I told them I was with Scottish Power and that I know it's the cheapest, he said "Ah right, well... Call us if you ever fancy changing...!"

Dress down friday? working in the building industry i get this privilege every day.
It sounds a bit like when we used to be able to take toys into class on a friday afternoon at infant school.

went for an interview at this place once, trying to plug the gap between uni and a real job.
They were a group of the most uninspiring, bland, corporate grey office bores that I'd ever met in my life. And it seemed they'd all bought into the myth that being irritatingly bright and breezy is an adequate substitute for hard graft. Invited back for a second interview but I told them where to stick it. Glad i did now.

I was unfortunate enough to be temping at a large bank

Sorry - read that as tempting at a large bank

That would be new marketing ploy!

You ought to try working near this building when they all start shouting and hooraying. I feel sorry for the poor beggars in Royal Bank of Scotland or in the North Wing at Moorfoot.

Sorry - read that as tempting at a large bank


Please God, No! :gag: :gag: :gag:

StarSparkle :)

i couldnt do things like that, i'd get up and walk out:hihi:

Please God let's hope they don't have a company song. Please.

There is a thread in the Employment section from someone at this company trying to get more people to join them so they can go around annoying normal people, harassing people on their doorsteps into buying stuff they do not want. Then I suppose they all get together at the end of the week and ring a bell or shout "Boo Yah" and high five each other as they tot up their sales for the week.

What a bunch of "insert favourite expletive here"