I came across this sad bit of news while surfing the net ( check it out here) .The journalists at the London Sunday Express came across a video on Youtube from a group of British Bankers with a little Christmas carol of their own for the people of the UK to ‘enjoy’. Calling themselves the “City Bankers” they identify themselves as local bankers and stock brokers with one claiming to have worked for the now defunct Lehman Brothers.
This video follows the walk of a cartoon child describing the sad change in this years Christmas because of the financial meltdown. After a while of this, a group of obviously drunken bank workers go into chorus stating:
“Sorry we F@#*!ed up your Christmas, but really we don’t give a s#@t! Cause we have made loads of money, in fact we’re swimming in it”
This video goes on to more creudness including a man urinating, overall not giving a ‘shit’ about all the people that are suffering as a result of this financial meltdown. The creators claim that this video came about because they were tired about people bugging and harassing them about this financial meltdown.
Although this isn’t linked to any one firm ,if this story grows legs this can potentially become a reputational problem that could turn into a customer relations firestorm. Any inaction in this case could cause problems for the UK banking industry as it then would be seen that the opinion of this small group represents the general sentiment of the banks, something at this time they obviously don’t want happening. Overall I’m personally pretty disgusted with this video and don’t have much sympathy for these bank employees should they face consequences, I’ve embedded the video below to check out: