They dont KNOW its working?

Once I finally got through to Barclays on the phone I was told they had been having issues for about an hour and a half and that some ATMs were affected as well. I'm wondering if it affected merchant services in shops at all?

Do other banks have these kinds of problems so regularly?

Merchant Bankers...

It keeps logging me out saying that I haven't used it for more than 10 minutes. I haven't managed to stay logged in for more than 10 seconds yet. I think a clock hasn't been changed somewhere.

If you manage to get past the PINSentry login and dare to request your online statement you'll still see "5 - Sorry - Barclays Online Banking is currently unavailable".

Serves all the suckers right who bank with them off the back of those crap adverts!

PINSentry... biggest load of wank yet...

Tight bastards put you onto it, then don't bother sending the PINSentry stuff so when you need to make a payment to someone new, the bastard thing won't go through and it means having to turn up at a branch.

It's time for the "I told you so" dance. I've a couple of friends at Barclays - they complained loudly that IT was "barely coping" before the cuts. Afterwards, they were running a book on how long before something went BANG in public. Just had an email from one of them saying they're all quite suprised no-one had collected until today.

(Happy, because I'm owed a beer, and now he's won, I might get it...)

....laying off of IT staff or the failing of IT systems? Would love to know.

"Which came first? The......laying off of IT staff or the failing of IT systems? Would love to know." ...

By Anonymous Coward Posted Monday 26th October 2009 14:04 GMT.

Crikey, AC, every man and his dog should surely know not to tangle with the BOFH and PFY..... for nothing but pain and disaster follow.

..you can still see their stupid adverts when you attempt to log in. That's all that seems to matter to Barclays these days. Access to our accounts is clearly of secondary interest.

Paris because what she advertises is worth having.

Of course management will blame it on improper IT workers, and the workers will blame it on improper management.

Guess what, the only thing that is "correct" is the IT part.

Both sides are most likely exaggerating their claims,

It is likely there are some outright lies on one or both sides.

Outcome, it will cost the customers more time and money.

The new collective term for a group of bankers ??

A Wunch, maybe??

Don't need no timebomb.

What most of the public don't realise is that most systems running in the UK are held together by the good will and hardwork of dedicated IT staff working under very tough conditions.

While the beancounters are happy brag to the stockmarket how much money their "new high tech online system thingy" produces, they seldom remember this when the hardworking SOB who maintains the system tells them that they need £20,000 for a couple of new servers to keep it running.

So why the surprise that things stop working when they tell the IT staff, 'thanks for all the hard work, but we can save a couple of thousand pounds if we outsource your jobs to the lowest bidder'

Our company account was still inaccessible at 4:30pm, as I was planning to pay the VAT today.

To the question about do other banks suffer this, I've never had an IT problem with NatWest in years (other than their website used to be awful) and HSBC site was down once in the 5 years the company banked with them.

Joined Barclays this year, and have had good customer service, but the IT is a huge mess, and the card payment network is as flakey as the website.

Oh and finally: Their website can't display the current day's transactions. How crap is that? Surely they must know today's status of our account? If we had to juggle cashflow it would be a total disaster! They can't give current balance, but call it a current account... Huh?

Paris because she's got a better grasp of technology.

The Natwest IT systems were down last Friday. ATMs not working nationwide (according to staff in local branch). Paying in machines in the branch not working. Large queue for the cashiers posts.

Not sure about online banking because, by the time I got home, it was working.

I've requested my bank statements for the last year and I've received them after 6 weeks. Also they were incomplete, so they are worthless. I have never seen and I hope I never will see such a combo of bad IT systems and stupid people.

Being an ex-Barclays IT Guy, I was told, on numerous occasion, that Bracleys aren't that interested in the retail side of banking. Private, Business and International were the money makers.