Halifax...

[MummBRaaarrrTheEverLeaking]

twitter.com/HalifaxBank/status/1541692892175110146?t=6PoJxoXZAUwWHmXRZdtsxw&s=19

Getting their arses handed to them in the comments, it's rather heartening to see that people have really had enough of this.

twitter.com/HalifaxBank/status/1541786073302433792?t=E_xpGMHqPNolZkP145kPSQ&s=19

Although AndyM here is prepared to defend it to the hilt by actively encouraging customers to close their accounts 😬

Awkward conversation with management about the goal being bringing in customers and not telling them to bugger off for Andy in the office tomorrow perhaps!

Oh ffs.

I've just looked at some other banks and the virtue signaling is horrendous.

Millions of people will need proper help over the next few months - why don't they do things that are related to finance, cost of living, budgeting?

It is good that a bank sponsors a women's football team but surely that should be a side thing? Surely their social media should mostly be advice - helplines, useful website sites, how to budget, what the bank is doing to facilitate financial literary in schools? Advice on negotiating the housing market or starting your own business perhaps (I can see very little of this on any banking social media).?

Sponsoring advisors at Citizen Advice or putting more staff on their own helplines would be so much more appropriate than waving flags.

Fewer initiatives that are just for likes and more serious stuff related to the business they are supposed to know best - money. That way they will make fewer gaffs and annoy fewer people.

Meh! They’re all stonewalled to the eyeballs

theres no way that any of the ppl that work there think men magically become actual women

its just corporate woke washing

I always found it interesting that the finance & law sectors were the only adopters of the stonewall champions scheme. It’s not like they give a toss about any of the other protected characteristics

There is a difference imo between corporate virtue signalling and telling customers to fuck off

It because those industries have had a lot of gay men in very high positions.

Pride is heavily sponsored, whereas the Notting Hill carnival struggles for funding every single year because there's no one in a high position interested in it.

I am in no doubt as to why trans rights has moved so quickly in the past decade, and it's because there will be a lot of straight white men in powerful positions who suddenly decide to change sex, and they have a lot of influence.

@WooFighters someone has twitted about this stat in response (along lines of if your female employees identify as male will you give them a 40.2% pay rise)

Exactly.

This one is also funny.

Theeyeballs you are spot on.
Why on earth is noone campaigning for disabled rights. Which is something you don't blooming well identify into. Because those in power literally do not care.

I work in a building that you can't open the internal doors unless you are fully able bodied. Why is this even allowed.

I'd be interested if they answered @Blowthemandown .

Hmmm might hold fire on the imminent move to NatWest then. Although I suppose they haven't told.me.to fuck off.

Any non arsehole banks anyone?

I’m now seeing people refer to abhorrent comments on Twitter yet they don’t mention what they actually are..

pro nouns are the ultimate western luxury belief

Lloyds’ (the parent company) share price has been struggling all year. They could do without losing Halifax customers because of a cack-handed social media wonk.

Building societies like Nationwide/ The Co-op are better than banks in lots of ways.

I have a Halifax card, time to close it I think. I might consider moving our main account too, which is with Lloyds.

I might move my accounts from one of the banks that tweeted in support of Halifax. I don’t mind pronouns, including when people wear them on badges at work (although I think they’re largely performative nonsense). I do mind banks trying to talk to me about values.

I do mind banks trying to talk to me about values

Sometimes I think I'm going to wake up from this dream.

@OneOfThoseOldFashionedWomen

We will. And Halifax will be the same devoid-of-conscience, invest-money-in-homophobic-regimes, soulless capitalists they’ve always been.

The Co-operative Bank is no longer owned by The Co-operative Group; it's currently owned by hedge funds (via a holding company):
saveourbank.coop/who-owns-the-coop-bank

BTW anyone who wants to resist this bullshit, here's a Sex Matters guide to pronouns.

sex-matters.org/posts/updates/pronouns/

Here’s an idea: big B2C corporations should reduce their social media functions to only what is needed to disseminate information about their products and services to customers. Radical, I know, but...

Has AndyM announced his pronouns yet?

I don’t know anything about shares and the stock market, but I really feel for those who have money invested in shares of Lloyds bank and who don’t support telling customers to believe or go elsewhere.

Well I hope those shareholders will demand the bank account for their behaviour. This will hit them where it hurts.