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You do know that men outnumber women in management positions? So if you have eight male bosses (one of them being awful) and two female bosses (again, one of them being awful) guess which gender sticks out in your mind?

(this is an example from my own life by the way).

Talk about family friendly work environments, talk about getting more women in management positions, talk about getting more girls interested in 'male' industries - engineering, science, maths - by all means.

But can we dispense with the 'Daily Mail' style article "Have you ever had a bitch for a boss?" It doesn't help and it isn't constructive and really does nothing to advance the cause of women in any sphere of life.

My Twitter RSS is logged in and updated. Thanks Dirk.

Boys, keep it civil. Keep the farmyard animals out of it.

OK fine, you win. I will find my wall now to stand up against come the revolution.

"...at least find Goldman Sachs' address, they are in the phone book."

Told you I was going out on a limb. It's less about 'sympathy for RBS as a bank' - although I do have sympathy for the legions of people who work for regular salaries in any bank in the City being painted with the same brush as the 'Freds' of this industry.

I guess, I dispair at the fruitlessness of the protest, and the lack of creativity.

Ah, if they were RBS 'Votes for Jobs' the little protest might have had more credibility.

Why protest the horses after the barn door has long been left open? There must be better places to hold a placard and yell into a bull horn.

(I had a photo, but couldn't figure out how to upload it - I only work here.)

Excellent post (and welcome to the forum!). Your post illustrates the all-too-often gap between what regulators demand (or should I say gently suggest) and the real-world realities of operating a risk department (never mind an enterprise-wide risk IT system.)

Your post makes it clear that these issues are often not a result of failures in the IT (after all, technology is just a tool) but fundamentally related to overall risk culture.

"Assigning risk management responsibilities throughout the organisation"

Risk needs to be part of every business in an organisation, not separate from the business.

There are some global banks that require all senior managers to spend part of their career at the bank within the risk departments. However, those banks are the minority.

Your post also highlights the need for constant alerting and updating, via email (a technology we are all familiar with). Risk needs to run as an everyday, or even real-time, activity. If you wait for the quarterly report, that risk factor has already bitten you in the ass 12 times over.

Excellent update Dirk. I'm keeping all my boxes ticked!

Related company annoucement here.