just been made redundant!!
13 December 2002, 05:12 PM
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Hi Gang
Very sorry to hear this news, but i am afraid there is far worst to come. This is the start of a major down trend for UK PLC, those stuid house prices, just wait 6 months and see how far they fall!
News just in on more than a thousand sacked at Landrover, and i hear rummors up here at Halewood (Jag plant). MGR can't be too far behind either. The furture is turning black my friends!
Once again, sorry to hear your news Monzza
Cheers
Mega.
Very sorry to hear this news, but i am afraid there is far worst to come. This is the start of a major down trend for UK PLC, those stuid house prices, just wait 6 months and see how far they fall!
News just in on more than a thousand sacked at Landrover, and i hear rummors up here at Halewood (Jag plant). MGR can't be too far behind either. The furture is turning black my friends!
Once again, sorry to hear your news Monzza
Cheers
Mega.
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14 December 2002, 07:17 PM
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Know the feeling.
I have 14 years marketing planning experience and a huge amount to offer in energy and knowledge...but can I find a job since being made redundant? There seem to be about 3 with 5,000 people chasing them.
So I am lorry driving at the mo, which I like, but it only pays some of the bills.
So best wishes m8. Keep your chin up. Never give up.
Their are a few of us in the same boat
Steve
I have 14 years marketing planning experience and a huge amount to offer in energy and knowledge...but can I find a job since being made redundant? There seem to be about 3 with 5,000 people chasing them.
So I am lorry driving at the mo, which I like, but it only pays some of the bills.
So best wishes m8. Keep your chin up. Never give up.
Their are a few of us in the same boat
Steve
15 December 2002, 03:38 PM
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Sorry to hear that 
Ive been unemployed for 5 months now (just got a new job though
) but there is life out there to keep you going and keep on looking as you will eventually get the job your after
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Ive been unemployed for 5 months now (just got a new job though
) but there is life out there to keep you going and keep on looking as you will eventually get the job your after Tony
15 December 2002, 04:11 PM
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An IT consultant friend spent two months training a complete muppet then came into work to find that he couldn't check his e-mails went to find out why then got told that his job now belonged to the muppet he trained and see you later merry christmas.
15 December 2002, 08:06 PM
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Thanx for the posts people, im still really anoyed BUT i did really hate my job and everybody keeps on tellling me that maybe its a blessing in disguise....
Still im lucky in a way as in jan/feb i was going to take a loan and buy another car probably a Lancer evo5, i really would of been ****ed if i had got the loan before!
Anybody know of any jobs in hertfordshire working in product development/project management....LOL sorry i forgot what this site was about!! CARS!!!!
Still im lucky in a way as in jan/feb i was going to take a loan and buy another car probably a Lancer evo5, i really would of been ****ed if i had got the loan before!
Anybody know of any jobs in hertfordshire working in product development/project management....LOL sorry i forgot what this site was about!! CARS!!!!
16 December 2002, 10:43 AM
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If you're in IT, there are still perm jobs available, if you're willing to travel, but the companies are even more picky than usual and rates/packages are lousy...
It's also much easier to move when you've got a position already, but then I don't need to tell you that; speaking as someone who's lined up for a position involving frequent cross-atlantic travelling, just in case the annual pre-festive resource cull wields the X'Mas baseball bat over my head.
It's also much easier to move when you've got a position already, but then I don't need to tell you that; speaking as someone who's lined up for a position involving frequent cross-atlantic travelling, just in case the annual pre-festive resource cull wields the X'Mas baseball bat over my head.
16 December 2002, 10:51 AM
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I got my job back on my last day of notice, and the company has subsequently moved to kentish town, from tower bridge.
(two fooking hours journey for me in the morning!!!!)
Nothing i can do about it yet, but severly thinking about working from home for a couple of days a week!!!
Train service is dying!!!!
Everyone get out of london, why you still can!!!
hahahahah
BB
(two fooking hours journey for me in the morning!!!!)
Nothing i can do about it yet, but severly thinking about working from home for a couple of days a week!!!
Train service is dying!!!!
Everyone get out of london, why you still can!!!
hahahahah
BB
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Get with an injection moulding company like mine. We make taps for water and wine. Recession is good for us. People drink more. War is good too. People store water. 
Funny how the world works. The worse the economy gets the better we do. 80% export and based in London.
Funny how the world works. The worse the economy gets the better we do. 80% export and based in London.
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Market is totally **** at this moment i was made redundant last may, I almost got a new job, but then decided that i want something safe for always.I'm a trainee IT teacher now!-----So boring in the office.I'm pleased now---
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Been made redundant three times ... once in the 1960s, twice in the 1980s. After disappointment, on each occasion things improved after the initial setback.
Funny thing is, retrained in IT in early 1980s (anyone still programming in Fortran, Cobol etc? ... .... but told then that at 37, far too old for a job in IT. Need experience to get a job. But, cant get experienced without a job ... DOH! catch 22 and all that. No wonder UKPLC struggles for survival. Everyone wants to back only certainties. ... what ****shine. Muppets! Being interviewed by a spotty faced 20 something and being told that is some experience. Latest (third redundancy)occasion, then aged 48, applied for three jobs and was offered all three!!! Attitudes had changed somewhat by that time ...... hey! People realise experience is useful after all and not a threat to spotty faced youngsters ... There's hope for us all after all ....
Funny old game life ... let's hope UKPLC will excel at more things than getting it wrong. Need to!
Funny thing is, retrained in IT in early 1980s (anyone still programming in Fortran, Cobol etc? ...
.... but told then that at 37, far too old for a job in IT. Need experience to get a job. But, cant get experienced without a job ... DOH! catch 22 and all that. No wonder UKPLC struggles for survival. Everyone wants to back only certainties. ... what ****shine. Muppets! Being interviewed by a spotty faced 20 something and being told that is some experience. Latest (third redundancy)occasion, then aged 48, applied for three jobs and was offered all three!!! Attitudes had changed somewhat by that time ...... hey! People realise experience is useful after all and not a threat to spotty faced youngsters ... There's hope for us all after all ....Funny old game life ... let's hope UKPLC will excel at more things than getting it wrong. Need to!
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