zero_to60

It's looking very likely that I am not gonna make the next round of 'cost cutting measures'

Do I stick my head in the sand and hope for the best or start making plans?

Thing is I am in the city/financial sector so it aint exactly a fertile job market

DJ Dunk

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Make plans. You need to cover your own back if it all goes t1ts up.

TBMeech

Sound advice from Dunk there, if it happens at least you're covered rather than thinking **** **** **** what am I gonna do now

beemerboy

i am also in finance (software area) and i'm making plans.....
..just hope i can make them fast enough!!! lol.

good luck

Dazza

zero_to60

things is I haven't even got a PC at home to do a CV or look for alternatives

if things go **** up I am gonna have to sell my cars...life's like a fecking game of snakes and ladders and just when I think I am getting on top of things you get the rug pulled from under you

what a pisser

beemerboy

if you work in IT, just nick a PC.

i'm sure the company would loan you one if they had to make you redundo...

or get someone else to knock it up for ya.

put some feelers out, you really need email and web access to do proper "job hunting" these days!!

atb.

dazza

zero_to60

I used to be a 'pimp' before I saw the error of my ways

all my contacts are out of date now

I don't much fancy stackign shelves for £4 an hour but if needs be....I've been there before, amazed me the number of people who look down on shop workers and treat them like ****

I was queing in Sainsbury's and there was this right ****** in front well up himself being all funny with the assistant...you could tell she was getting down with it....so I said it for her "who the **** do you think you are speaking to her like that?" soon shut him up that did...I remember what it was like having to bite your tongue

beemerboy

yeah mate, you cant be proud, you have to do what you have to do to survive....(legal activities, of course)

i got a wife and wee kiidy at home to support, so if i got the shove, i'd do anything it takes to keep them provided for.

(except selling my PS2, of course)

you'll be fine mate, something better may actually come along, you never know.

just get your head round the fact that it "can" happen, so be ready for it mentally!!!

BB

zero_to60

yeah got a new baby due next week too, still got all the stuff ready though

last time I was made redundant I had to sign on...not a great experience it must be said

BB you are right you'll do anything for your family...apart from selling the PS/2

fast bloke

I know quite a number of people who got the chop. More often than not they are happier in a better job a year down the line. I can certainly say that I am. Get yourself some unemployment insurance to cover you for a year so that you can have a think about your new career plan without resorting to stacking shelves

Markus

Make plans, never hurts to look around.

I've worked for the same company for 9 years, but 2 years ago things were a bit uncertain, and I decided to look for another job, so had a few interviews, offered one of the jobs on the spot, but I turned it down, as, in the nick of time, there were totally drastic changes in the company struture which made things 200 percent better than they were, so I stayed, and it's been pretty good since.

mwp

keep calm. push for as much as you can get if they do it. as fast bloke says, most people find a job at a better place rather than having this redundancy stuff all the time and a bad atmosphere.

**** happens, just try and deal with it positively.

i looked for cheap PCs on google and found this (one of many) http://62.128.221.101/getmeapc/

good luck .. i'm sure if you need further advice the good people on here will give it

Leslie

Good luck anyway-maybe it won't happen.

les

Tim-Grove

Know the feeling mate, in the past 4 years my company has had 4 different owners and 5 different names and been through 2 rounds of major staff cuts of which my dad was a victim but im still hanging in there.