Yes, we always used to have to fill in stupid bits of paper with Lloyds. If we dared not to we'd get grunted at by the cashier who'd then fill in the bit of paper and proceed to do fuck knows what on their bizarre ergonomic nightmare of a computer with the worlds smallest trackpad balanced on top of a bundle of wires.lukey wrote: For a few months BoS regressed, again, with customers having to fill in withdrawal/deposit slips in the queue. I was told this was/is a Lloyds thing - is that even true?
This has finally been replaced with putting your debit card in the chip and pin machine but their systems still appear to be powered by steam. Internet banking won't let you have punctuation characters in your password for example.
I have no idea what the current status of the HBOS backend is, although I believe it was superior. Perhaps Lloyds, for whatever reason, are doing a morrisons?
On a related not, I find it amusing that 8 years after the merger, Abode are still using the Macromedia website templates.