I think you broke it down very well. The two main things that have actually made me switch from monzo to Starling now was the fact he tried to get her to take responsibility for the companies debt when she agreed to resign and the fact he seemed to do a lot of this stuff on the sly, and not to Anne’s face.
Trying to stick her with the debt after she sold her house while making her resign from the company really doesn’t sit well with me. I could never do that.
I know this might be contentious, but I don’t think that rumour and gossip about founders, one of whom isn’t even CEO any more, really should have that much bearing on where I bank.
Frankly I am outraged with any bank who doesn’t cook enough chicken for a sunday roast. Or too much chicken. I still haven’t read the article All I know is there is chicken involved somewhere.
That’s entirely your opinion, and I respect that. For me, whenever I read something like this, I always wonder how many other people has he done stuff like this to… The disturbing Glassdoor reviews have a lot of upvotes which don’t paint a pretty picture of life at monzo as well.
I doubt there will be a huge number of CASS switches from monzo to Starling now, but I definitely trust what’s coming out of Anne Boden’s mouth a lot more than Tom’s now.
That’s the opposite of what a Sunday roast should be. Family or friends, lots of food, lots of wine and not a thought about work for the lazy afternoon.
It’s very dramatic - I love it. The only way this could get better is if it later came from Tom or something that they’ve slept together or something along those lines. Always a good way to start a feud at the workplace.
I fear, though, that people would. It’s so easy to do that, fuelled by forum activity such as this.
I’m not bemoaning the forum - just the reality that folk will make those decisions without little or no thought. The choice of bank itself, as a vehicle for money management, is almost incidental in this case…
Given how difficult it is to get folk to switch banks full stop, I doubt anyone outside of a small forum-aware subset would even think about doing based on this palace intrigue
I’m sure a lot of folk even reading The Times itself will flick past the story on the basis of having no idea who the people and companies involved are