lozgti

Don't think we are just talking ou way into a recession and this can't be the medias fault

Insurance Giant Aviva Set To Axe Up To 1800 Jobs |Sky News|Business

Plus the 2-3000 or more who will get the chop from Northern Rock,plus the 450 going from Orange.

Next two years are going to be scary

Anyone know anyone else 'downsizing?'

The Chief

Spoke to a supplier who told me they had 2500 people three years ago now they have 200 people. I get dozens of calls a week asking for work and that says something.

Manufacturings been suffering for a bit now and it looks as if its filtered down to other industries and its really hitting home.

I really, really hope i'm wrong but i think were in for a bad 'un

People offset this by increased borrowing but now the cost of living has rocketed people are drawing their horns in.

No doubt Labour will put all the people laid off onto some training scheme or disability benefit so they dont have to declare them as officially unemployed and thus not affect the figures too much.

Sorry 'bout the Labour rant

But you know where i'm coming from

Luan Pra bang

Wait for the house builders to get going persimon homes are trying to make as many as possible redunant at the moment.

speedking

Taylor Wimpey -1300 jobs and shutting a third of regional offices.

stilover

I'm in construction (Industrial Roofing & Cladding) and any reccesion is bad news for us.
Luckily we are a small company, so overheads are relatively low compared to many in our sector.

Times are indeed getting tough. We've already seen a possible project pulled due to the client deciding it's the wrong time to be spending £50m.

Sonic'

Its quite strange all this recession lark, and folks laying folks off

I start a new job, and they are pretty much doubling in size, and have won some very good contracts, so there is plenty out there depending on which sector you are in

stilover

They were due to start building houses on a large site near me this year.
Nothing is happening now.

The Chief

Bloody hell my mate was a land buyer at Persimmon.

I bet he's crapping it now because he's used to such a high wage (told me once that he could not survive on 30k - ****** )

I think the contsruction industry is gonna suffer big time.
There seems to be a pile of unsold apartments in Manchester at the moment

skoobidude

I'm at Rolls-Royce. 2300 jobs to go this year with the ball rolling already. Most have gone through voluntary but there's still a few left to get rid of.
I'm in a group of 8. 1 of which needs to go.....

Nick

zs_phil

iTrader: (1)

100 have gone at my place with probably more to come and we are on a 4 day week 32hours not getting paid either for the friday

stevebt

iTrader: (8)

I work /did work for persimmon homes and they have virtually got rid of all their employee's

Petem95

15% of the workforce (so about 150 people) went at the firm I work for a couple of months back.

A lot of our customers are cutting jobs and its looking like a few contracts wont get re-newed as clearly the firms are struggling, so its not good for us.

phil_wrx

iTrader: (2)

what sector is that?

Sonic'

IT, mainly infrastructure and Managed Wireless and Radio links

The company I am leaving has just won a 4 million pound contract, and the company I am going to have won quite a few long term big contracts too, and one of our Vendors has just won a massive contract in Dubai, and a massive contract for Formula 1

phil_wrx

iTrader: (2)

thats pretty good,i work in logistics and its looking good so far us but we are very big and aint feeling the fuel prices as much as the smaller ones

Sonic'

Yeah it is pretty good, both companies are only a staff level of around 25-30 too

kingofturds

iTrader: (1)

60 jobs have gone at the printing firm on our industrial estate. Things must be getting bad as we have 6 or 7 English blokes ringing a week asking for work. Unfortunately for them though we don't employ English people anymore.

Dedrater

Get in IT or the Army if you are nuts.

Steve vRS

We are still actively recruiting. I work for an Engineering/Process Safety Consultancy. We do a lot of work for the chemical and oil industry though which helps!

Steve