Actually they were one of the biggest building societies in Britain (like a bank that specialises in mortgages). They have since become a bank and have been acquired by Barclays Bank. So, in a sense, they're still in business. But I hated working for them and sorta wish they weren't! :-)

>And they still in buisness? :)
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>>I once worked for a company who, would you believe, calculated productivity by the number of lines of code written! We all know that succinctly written code can be far more productive than some idiot's rambling, monolithic, stream-of-conciousness, inefficient code.
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>>Just bored at the moment!