daveyg 1:14 Sat Aug 20
Job threat
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All the doom and gloom around folks losing there jobs .
Anyone or their immediate family fear they will lose theirs ?
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Vexed
1:34 Sat Aug 20
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Gimme a job or i'll punch you in the fucking cock!
Is that what you were after?
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joe royal
1:51 Sat Aug 20
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Get a class one HGV licence and you will never be out of work again.
Money ain’t to shabby these days either.
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devonhammer
2:25 Sat Aug 20
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They're not likely to be making any paramedics redundant any time soon......so think I'm safe
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-62601863
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Kaiser Zoso
2:37 Sat Aug 20
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Joyo's Whomailed me, he's worried about his job now that another idiot has moved in to his village.
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Mike Oxsaw
2:47 Sat Aug 20
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Re-training for a new role is probably the solution - but into what role and when will people find the time/money to do so given the way things are going in the economy?
I honestly DON'T know of a one-size-fits-all solution here; I retrained (myself) 4 times over my career (thankfully now over, so I won't be challenging for any roles available), but stayed - mostly - in telecom (and how YOU use your phone should give you a clue as to where I got all the money from), so it wasn't, for me, that difficult.
How other people approach the problem is, of course, down to them, but they shouldn't expect any help from the authorities - they've got projects with much higher vote-catching potential on which to spend YOUR taxes.
I'm sure someone will be along soon to cunt me off without providing a potential alternative solution themselves; them's the way of my followers.
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Hermit Road
3:20 Sat Aug 20
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I’m trying to remind myself that this is millennial doom and gloom not 1970s or ‘80s doom and gloom where we had no work, could never afford to eat out, never went on holiday (let alone abroad)), and your house halved in value. This is the new and improved doom and gloom where there’s more work than people to do it and I don’t have to share the hot water from the bath with anyone else (unless I want to).
Feel for anyone who does lose their job but as Joe and Mike have said, there’s definitely work there if you retrain. Fuck it, even Uber pays a pretty decent wage.
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daveyg
3:46 Sat Aug 20
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This isn't about looking for work.
It's about if people on WHO are losing their jobs or fear of losing their jobs because of the recession.
Vexed and others read what the question
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master
4:03 Sat Aug 20
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Hiring demand is clearly falling, and that’s most evident from a decline in unfilled job vacancies – a trend that’s likely to continue, according to more up-to-date online vacancy numbers. That’s not to say firms are letting staff go – redundancy levels haven’t budged from their lows over recent weeks and unemployment doesn’t appear to be rising, even if the jobs market has stopped tightening.
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Mike Oxsaw
4:04 Sat Aug 20
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The recession simply overlays progress with regard to job (but not work) loss.
When was the last time you asked a GPO/BT operator to place a call for you, or take a hand-written report down to the typing pool to get put into a presentable format for your boss to read?
When was the last time you bought your week's drinks on a special trip to the "offy" as opposed to adding them to your weekly shop at the supermarket?
How many pints of fresh milk does your milkman deliver (to you) every day?
Do you still use a slide rule & log tables to do the calculations your work requires?
No job is for life. In fact, YOU are not entitled to a job - you are 100% entitled to WORK for a living, but that is very different from being employed (by somebody else) in a job.
If you can't tell the difference then perhaps you shouldn't be anywhere near electrical equipment, let alone the internet.
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RBshorty
4:45 Sat Aug 20
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You shouldn’t be near any electrical equipment.!
Fortunately Miike most of them ain’t. They have spunked 4years and the best part of 100k learning media studies and 16th century basket weaving.
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Jimmo
4:57 Sat Aug 20
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Yep, had a video sent out the other day from a meeting saying the company is currently losing 125 million per month
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Mike Oxsaw
5:16 Sat Aug 20
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Probably the best short-term solution is to make yourself un-sackable - become a "key employee" in business process terms.
However, that is strictly short-term, no more than 18 months, as the company will start to look at the risk of having so much reliance on one person (YOU) and seek to dilute/diversify/automate as many of the tasks that make up your role as they can.
18 months, however, may be enough time for you to start taking control of your destiny, if you use it wisely, and don't (EVER) assume 18 months will definitely become 18 years simply because you've not heard anything (from above).
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Dicko75
6:23 Sat Aug 20
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Best way is to work hard, be open to change, put in extra effort, don’t take days off sick and don’t be a general pain in the arse. And keep learning and wanting to learn.
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Hermit Road
6:28 Sat Aug 20
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Jimmo 4:57 Sat Aug 20
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FMOB, what do they sell, video tapes?
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Pub Bigot
6:32 Sat Aug 20
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I could have a job offer on the cards, but I'm having a second thoughts based on tenure of where I am.
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Kaiser Zoso
6:32 Sat Aug 20
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The economy is going over the cliff edge in October, once interest rates and energy costs strangle most peoples spending money.
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Mike Oxsaw
7:19 Sat Aug 20
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R&D tends to be one of the areas that suffers when cuts are announced, so may be a prudent move to another department (even at lower pay) to help you ride out the storm (even though "Last In, First out" may still apply in your new role).
After that admin & general documentation is next in line for cost-cutting, so a move out of those may (MAY) help.
Following that, the sales team will be asked to deliver more with less resources, so there's somewhere else to consider leaving. This one is counter-intuitive as sales tends to generate (future) profits; however, it's not potential profits that are the issue, it's cash flow. Company can't pay it's bills, it's fucked.
Perversely, local & national government always see themselves as somehow outside the economic bubble that shrouds the rest of us when it comes to recruitment, so looking for work there may help.
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RBshorty
7:40 Sat Aug 20
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Karen's are usually safe.
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Northern Sold
3:18 Sun Aug 21
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Yup... job going so taking VR and early pension... looking for a PT job come January... dog walking (black lab) specialist... give us a call...
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Northern Sold
3:22 Sun Aug 21
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It's amazing the prudent advice Mr Oxsnore gives on here... regarding employment... when he spends 22 hours a day on here... sign me up...
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