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Musicians walk out after London orchestra leaves them unpaid for months
(www.theguardian.com)
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I imagine the musicians were just trying to help the orchestra survive, and expecting it would be sorted out any day soon.
The article makes no mention of why the account was frozen in the first place.
Barclays don't need a reason, they are utter shits.
This is from a link in the main article ...
In my decades of working for software companies and dealing with clients, I have had many conversations that went something like...
Client: We need the software to do _____.
Me: No problem. That's a common request and can be set up in the configuration. I just need [ some specific information that only the client can provide ] from you to set it up. It'll only take me a few minutes.
... crickets ...
Several months later..
Client: WHY HAVEN'T YOU DONE THIS YET? MY BOSS IS SCREAMING AT ME! THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!
I can't help but imagine something like that happened here. They've probably been repeatedly requesting this information for months, and whomever is responsible for providing it for the orchestra is just incompetent.
No. There is a linked article in the main one that disproves your assumption.
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/dec/09/charities-barclays-frozen-bank-accounts
Your absolutely right, people have a sense of family/community with their workplace co-workers which is why its so easy to "take one for the team" and skip a paycheck.
This is why its necessary to tell people to walk as soon as the money stops, so they don't fall deeper into the hole. A reasonable business will understand their people need to get paid, and if they sort out their finances will take back their employees even if they had to pursue other ventures during the insolvency.
It's extremely difficult to get a position playing in an orchestra - the competition is fierce. I imagine this is also a consideration: when you get a job like that, you really don't want to give it up lightly because you've spent your whole life training for it and you don't know when or whether you'll get another one.
Orchestra positions are often jobs that these people will keep for life or until a seat in a new orchestra opens up. There’s an extremely limited number of jobs. I had a fairly distant cousin audition for the Seattle Symphony, for the single open trumpet seat there were north of 200 applicants. It’s such an incredibly competitive field that if you walk out, you might just possibly never get back in.