21 December 2006

"Get an Engineer to Hang Baubles"

In the latest example of bureaucratic stupidity, a Scarborough bank has told its staff that they must call an engineer to hang Christmas tree baubles if the tree is more than two metres high.

The Royal Bank of Scotland e-mailed its staff and said that hanging streamers in the workplace was too dangerous, computers should not be decorated with tinsel and that if a Christmas tree is more than two metres high then staff must call an engineer to hang the baubles in the tree.

The Scottish owned bank claim all this is owing to health and safety regulations. The same warning was given to the bank's sister companies NatWest and Direct Line.