Revolut staff claim they’ve been told to quit their jobs or be fired

Post by Gibbon1 » Fri, Jun 05, 2020, 9:48 AM UTC

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Well I had "we know you've been out of school over 20 years, but we really need to know which exam boards you did your age-16 English literature exam with before we'll interview you for this science degree requiring position ... that we previously employed you for". Thankfully I quite enjoy hunting down lost information but I was not impressed with the HR personnel in that one.

So far what has worked for me in Germany when I got these forms from HR is to put "(by request)" into such fields. Which is, erhm, kind of cheating because, well, they are requesting it right there in the form. But so far, funnily enough, nobody actually bothered. All they cared about was that the form was "completed".

Post by avianlyric » Fri, Jun 05, 2020, 4:38 PM UTC

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You would be amazed at how much money a bank can make on card interchange (the fee they earn on every card transaction you make). Also most central banks don’t have negative base rates, so some money can still be earned from deposit interest. But COVID has of course slashed that revenue stream.

> You would be amazed at how much money a bank can make on card interchange Not in Europe. Do you have any links? > Also most central banks don’t have negative base rates, OK not negative, just zero Eurozone is 0%, UK is 0.1%, Scandies are zero or 0.05% https://www.global-rates.com/interest-rates/central-banks/ce...

Post by avianlyric » Fri, Jun 05, 2020, 10:20 PM UTC

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This is pretty standard banking behaviour if they suspected you of money laundering, and closed your account on that basis. To be clear, I have no idea if you were money laundering, and have no idea if your account usage had indications of money laundering (valid or otherwise). I can just tell you from personal experience that’s what a banks response to suspected money laundering is.

Maybe this would be the case if they froze the account instead of blocking the user and sending money to random people. You wouldn't send money back to criminals. This isn't normal behaviour.

Post by Ozzie_osman » Sun, Jun 07, 2020, 7:36 PM UTC

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I've seen a lot of hiring managers miss out on great candidates because they assume that someone laid off probably wasn't a top performer ("if they were, the company would have found a way to keep them"). Of course, reality is great people do get laid off when companies draw really broad lines like "everyone hired within the past year" or "the entire division of X". Or sometimes it's just being on the wrong side of y…

SWE @ Lyft: Just one data point, but we went through a layoff last month. Every person I knew closely who was laid off had one or more weak performance reviews in the last year. Not saying this is always the case, but there is some truth in this concern that might make hiring managers weary.