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I'm going to have to agree to disagree with you on this, because employment/contract law means that if an employee commits an offence, then he has to be dealt with by the bank, which will review what he has supposedly done, and if it is serious enough will terminate his contract. He then will be officially dismissed and will not be allowed to operate on behalf of the bank. Simply saying that because he committed an offence, which wasn't picked up until many months afterwards, meant that the first time that he committed that offence, he ceased to be an employee, is not the way employee/employment contracts work, it has to be proven at the very time of the first incident, and this wasn't. Also I believe that even if there was a clause written into the employment contract that some sort of misdemeanour (whatever it was) would result in instant dismissal, then that has to be acted upon and he would have to be officially dismissed/sacked. IMO, the bank is trying to get out of its obligations and I do believe that indeed, "the bank's fraud mitigation and supervisory systems failed", and that does make them liable, because that's exactly what those systems are put in place to do, stop fraud and the like, and they didn't work. Maybe in Thailand it doesn't work like that, but I do have experience in matters like this, because in a major bank in NZ, when an employee stole $18 million over a period of time, doing almost exactly what this guy had done, the bank fully reimbursed all of the customers who had been affected by this fraud, and they went after him and took just about everything they could, and then he was jailed for six years.

A friend of mine bought the robot owl and another couple of supposed "pigeon scarers" because he had a pigeon problem at his house, and when I next saw him I asked him how it was going and he replied, "it seemed to work for a couple of days, and then I looked out of the window to see what was happening and one pigeon was trying to f..ck the owl, and another one was trying to feed the "pigeon scarer". I know he was saying it in jest, but what he was trying to put over was that neither worked!

I remember trying pigeon (as a dinner) in a country pub in Sussex, as I had never tried it before. It had been hung for quite a while I think, as the flesh was a bit dry and powdery, but the most off-putting part was the lead shotgun pellets in it!!! Won't happen with plastic pellets of course, and braising with garlic and red wine should do the trick!

Again, you have a point, however thinking back to my footballing career when I played senior amateur football, and was paid for it, and also played against Crystal Palace, Chelsea and a few others in pre-season friendlies (and quite a few teams who now play in the top divisions), I and other guys in the team really didn't need to be motivated, because that was what we did – – we played football and thoroughly enjoyed it and did our very best to win games. There's only so much motivation that a manager can bring to a side, however the players have to have a great deal of self-motivation in wanting to win, prove themselves, show what they can do, and there is a counter to this argument, inasmuch as if the manager is an absolute dork, then players really don't want to play for him, and therefore don't. I'm trying to look at the bigger picture and United appear to have been disjointed from top to bottom for quite some time now and it shows by the number of players who are still on their books, who shouldn't be; the number of managers they've had who couldn't "cut the mustard" and the panic signing of the likes of CR, not to mention DVB, who can't get a game. "There's something rotten in the state of United" to steal a phrase from Hamlet, and it hasn't been fixed for quite some time, and you only have to look at the number of managers who have been there since the departure of Alex Ferguson to see that something is very wrong. In addition, the fact that United have failed to seek out and entice a top and experienced manager to come to the club speaks volumes, and even if they do get someone like Louis van Gaal, whose credentials were great, he isn't (or his style isn't) considered good enough for United?? I don't know enough about RR to comment, although in the very small amounts that I had read prior to his appointment, no one seemed to be bursting with enthusiasm over it?

After being thoroughly disappointed with the new version of Dune, I downloaded and watched the original 1984 version, albeit remastered, and enjoyed it, and for the first time of watching it on about three occasions, I finally understood it all!!!!! Although, I will add a rider to the above, inasmuch as the special effects were a bit naff in some parts, at least compared to what can be done today with CGI

Very good IMO........ Sort of follows on from the BBC series about Jeremy Thorpe, "A Very English Affair" which I thought was excellent, and I hope they produce many more of them. Had to admit to looking up the circumstances surrounding the Argyll case, and the three parter was true to the story in the main.

Throckmorton knew that when he passed wind in the echo chamber, he'd never hear the last of it.

You make a good point and I'm not sure that the new formation that RR is trying to implement helps at all........or at least it didn't seem to against Newcastle!! And to all intents and purposes RR is a "decent manager", but you can be the best manager in the world, however when players are unable to even pass a ball to one of their own team, or lack the ability to see opportunities/openings where they exist, then IMO the players have to be held accountable.

Interesting article and I have read similar before........... https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/why-high-fructose-corn-syrup-is-bad Also... Increases appetite, promotes obesity Studies show that high fructose corn syrup increases your appetite and it promotes obesity more than regular sugar. “High fructose corn syrup also contributes to diabetes, inflammation, high triglycerides, and something we call non-alcoholic fatty liver disease,” says Dr. Hyman. He says it increases all the fat in the liver which now affects over 90 million Americans. “It can even cause fibrosis or what we call cirrhosis. In fact, sugar in our diet is now the major cause of liver failure and that makes sugar the leading cause of liver transplants,” says Dr. Hyman. https://health.clevelandclinic.org/avoid-the-hidden-dangers-of-high-fructose-corn-syrup-video/

As I stated in another post, I don't believe the stats.............as an example, if the owner of a large bar in Bangla, who is supposed to regularly test his staff, finds one who is Covid/Omicron positive, do you really think they are going to report it to the authorities and risk being closed down and losing whatever income they were getting?? OR, do they send the positive staff member home and carry on regardless (or if the staff member is a particularly good one, get them to wear a mask and just carry on)? Food for thought.

I have just switched to Basmati as, for me, it has a "taste" which I like.

Napoli in Old Post Office Road, just off Beach Rd is worth a try, and The Yorkshire (Soi Sansabai) has steak and a few other offerings.

IMO a poor display by Utd, with the players who should be able to set the standards, not doing so. Sloppy passing and marking and some players not putting in the hard yards. RR has his work cut out, and that's an understatement.

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You make some interesting points in a previous post, in respect of the position the bank may take, and also the position the victims may take. However one thing that does bother me is irrespective of what the bank may try to say with regards to the fact that once the employee stole some money he ceased to be an employee, as the bank never took action (because they didn't know about it), never reviewed his employment or indeed fire him, then to all intents and purposes, and especially to the victims, he was still an employee of the bank. I sincerely hope the victims win their case, and as regards another point you made about your 800 K in the bank, it is something that I have been pondering now for quite a while, and will look into it in the New Year, because like you mentioned, I'm not sure that my funds are safe here, not just because the governance is Third World, but because corruption is endemic here, from top to bottom, and who knows how that can pan out.

Tend to think that this could be the case, and it will be good if all of the "investors" got their money back, less the percentages they were promised, so that should satisfy most of them.

Well done @lodstewart in posting this........... https://truecrimethailand.substack.com/p/swindling-frog-pattaya It may help to explain the situation to a particularly belligerent poster here, and in addition to that, the following should also help: – The thief relieved funds from his victims mainly with two tactics: 1. When victims transferred money into Thailand from abroad, the assistant bank manager stole the funds. Or 2. The banker sold fraudulent, high-yield investment products to the victims. This banker worked at this branch for over ten years. And in the course of his career there, he got to know the account holders — farang, Thai, and Chinese — who grew to trust him over that time. The banker used outdated bank books to print transactions out for the victims. By all measures, the bank books looked real — they were branded with the bank's logo, they were printed at the bank branch, and they were handed over by a man who wore the green jacket emblazoned with the logo of the bank he worked for. Fraud/theft, plain and simple, by a trusted bank employee, who represented the bank and used the good name of the bank to help perpetrate the fraud. In just about any other country this case would be cut and dried, as the saying goes.....but TIT, so who knows??

Clearly having sex with customers in the bank's bathroom satisfies those criteria, yes. NO obviously not.........Clearly not that bright, are you!! Trying to explain it to a Muppet is hard work.

As I said, after investigation and the facts became clear, then the customers would be entitled to reimbursement – yes. As for your rather flippant comment regarding having sex with the customers in the bathroom and stealing cash from the customers pocket, then your common sense should tell you the answer. And to make it easy for you, in having sex, he was not offering a product from the bank, nor offering a product on the pretext of it being from a bank, nor using the banks premises to undertake a financial transaction to the benefit of the customer. Hope that helps.

Going slightly off track here at the moment, however I have it on good authority from a lady who is friends with girls who work in a couple of very large bars in Bangla, that although the bar owners do test their staff for Covid, if they find that a particularly good worker (i.e. brings in the money) has Covid, then they ask them to wear a mask and don't report it. Quite alarming if it is true, but then nothing surprises me here.

Yes, the bank has confirmed, so have the police who are investigating.

I should have clarified that statement in as much as if the bank employee was found to be purportedly acting on behalf of the bank and it was established that it was his "scheme" and his alone in trying to offer bank customers products from his bank, then yes without hesitation. As regards that, he was on the bank's premises, using the bank's office, it's utilities and facilities, so I stand by that statement – – the bank is liable.

I agree that the education system needs to be improved, however consequences, and how they apply to everyday life need to be understood, and one of the ways to do this is to penalise the person responsible. It's a bit like the crash helmet laws here, if they changed that law to state that the fine would be 1000 baht for the first offence, and motorbike confiscation for the second, then crash helmets would be worn. As for "to enjoy the joys of the flesh is human nature", well it works in other countries, even with the most ill educated element of the population, so it would work here, but as I said TIT.

I was a senior executive in a bank in NZ for 13 years and if this happened at the bank for which I worked, then the customers would have been paid out, without any hesitation whatsoever. The transactions took place within the banking chamber, orchestrated by a bank employee, using the banks premises and equipment, and as someone else has mentioned, the bank's logo was on paperwork given to the customer. There should be no way that the bank can get out of paying the customers what they are owed, but having said that, TIT, so who knows.

You make a good point @tomacht8, and how about the government puts in place laws which state that if a Thai husband/boyfriend who impregnates and leaves a Thai girl, has to pay maintenance of some description, or have possessions taken away (motorbike for example) or face jail time. As it is now, these guys can do exactly what they want without any fear of consequence, and that in turn can lead to girls who enter into the "trade" to be able to support themselves and their families. Putting this in place will help stop this situation and help stamp out prostitution.