So who's got a job to commute to?

tailwindhome

Picked up from others threads a lot of mention of redundancies, though its possible I only notice due to my job going after Xmas.

Likely to end up travelling by car everyday as nothing going in my local area at the minute

Would love to find something close enough to bike to everyday, the current 13 mile each way is only an occasional effort :oops:

About 6 miles each way with great facilities, flexi- time and a warm shower would be ideal


Anyone else resting between jobs?

Nick6891

i have two part time jobs which are both very safe, but i know people who arnt so lucky

gtvlusso

Pretty safe...I think! Luckily I work on a bit of mobile network technology, that if it goes wrong no one can do anything - make calls, send texts etc etc etc!

Sorry to hear about your troubles though - it is a horrible experience, I have been through it before myself and don't wish it on anyone. I really hope we can come through this with minimum pain to all.

Unfortunately, all the above are true for me now - 6 miles each way (and I can increase the mileage with a nice countryside route up to about 40 miles each way), hot showers, flexi time - new drying room and showers being constructed at the moment, safe bike sheds, flexi time and I can work from home when I feel like it. I also have C2W and a company car allowance....

My company are always re-orging and my dept have not been touched in 12 years!

I am very lucky - hope I stay in work!

Surf-Matt

Run our own PR company and so far, I've decided not to sack myself.

biondino

Matt, I'd watch yourself, you're always on that internet and I hear you bunk off when the surfing conditions are good.

always_tyred

I was vunerable from a "last in first out" perspective after an acquisition earlier in the year of a firm I'd only just joined, after a mid-career job change (i.e. new old kid on the block, no experience and therefore of limited value anyway = totally screwed).

I was proactive, switched jobs, and the new firm is snowed under with work (unlike the old one, I am told :twisted: ).

I sympathise because its pretty stressful to go through.

tailwindhome

Surf-Matt wrote:

Run our own PR company and so far, I've decided not to sack myself.

Need an accountant?

I work cheap and hardly ever waste hours on tinterent

Honest


You could relocate your biz to Portrush, I hear braver souls than I surf here too.

ChrisLS

...my boss has taken a huge risk and bought a large company that is in receivership...it could put us out of work...

lost_in_thought

I work for a hedge fund manager...

'nuff said? :shock:

But then I am on the real estate side and property is harder to sell than paper...

Jen J

I'm lucky - I work for a prestige fragrances company, and apparently when ladies can no longer afford designer dresses, they buy more designer perfume instead.

Plus we're now the biggest company in the market, and have recently grwon a lot. We have been assured we're all safe.

Until we're not, I guess...

Clever Pun

I think I'm safe although I expect a few from the company to go in the run up to christmas after we got bought out a while back...

DonDaddyD

I'm a Marketing Officer in the Public Sector. I'm the only person in my department... My Manager and I recently discussed (second year running) a review of my job description and the adding of more responsibilities = more money :shock:

I believe my job is safe, but nothing is certain.

I was going to leave and enter the private sector (Business Development) but after having three job interviews cancelled and watching organisations withdrawn vacant positions from the market I've decided to wait until at least the next financial year to decide anything.

STEFANOS4784

Jen J wrote:

Until we're not, I guess...

That's my fear i'm only a retail scivvy currently working for wolseley but they've cut 2500 jobs worldwide apparently, they say we're safe but i don't wanna leave as i love it here, sort of, but being closed down wouldn't look great on the ol' c.v, get loadsa offers as i used to sell for vodafone and apparently people love that :?

girv73

I'm in an IT job that's reasonably safe (I think) in a company that's somewhat insulated from the economic conditions. Good cycle commuting facilities too!

But I don't like the work much and have been "looking around" to see what's out there. I'll admit it's a scary time to be thinking of changing job, if you watch the news.

I've been told that the local IT companies are still recruiting, but they're no longer hiring "on spec" and only taking people on if they have specific work for them. Belfast has the dubious advantage of being one of the cheapest places in the west to hire IT staff (ie: we're underpaid), so we get a lot of multinationals setting up development shops here and for now the job market looks pretty good.

ride_whenever

I'm doing a PhD, spending my time pottering around the lab...

biondino

Working for a healthy, stable family business means I'm probably about as safe as they get! Yes, I am touching wood right now.

linsen

I teach. I have no concerns, but I teach so little that it is more important that Mr L stays in work than I do.

Surf-Matt

biondino wrote:

Matt, I'd watch yourself, you're always on that internet and I hear you bunk off when the surfing conditions are good.

I repremanded myself twice last week. Final warning soon...

Wheezy - got a pretty good one based in Bristol. And we love it down here in Cornwall!
Good waves up your way though.

itboffin

biondino wrote:

Working for a healthy, stable family business means I'm probably about as safe as they get! Yes, I am touching wood right now.

You'll go blind :shock:

I was made redundant at the end of Sept the money runs out at the end of Jan, you'd think that a Technical Director with 21 years of experience would be in great demand, perhaps I should take up bike building instead

Worst of all my whole team got the chop last week

Surf-Matt

IT boffin - I was one of those hateful IT recruitment people many years ago. Did well because I wasn't a total lying git.

We often had very good senior level people on our books who struggled yet BAs, programmers and DBAs got plenty of work.

Strange.

ansbaradigeidfran

I bucked the trend and got hired during these troubles: was called and offered a part-time job straight up, on the basis of a previous interview when I didn't make the grade. It's contractually a Christmas temp job, but my manager is very eager to keep me on (and has gone as far as rota-ing my holidays for next year in). So high street retail, huzzah!

ris

my office did a round of redundancies a few weeks ago and i doubt it will be the last.

we are heavily in work-getting mode so that we could have plenty of jobs in as many sectors as possible for 2009. cross fingers we wil be ok, but the construction industry is going down the swanny and architects didn't do well last time round (40% out of work apparently :shock: )

i've been there 6 years so hopefully i will miss the bullet, at least for a while. :?

Kaydee

I work for a small accountancy firm doing wages for clients. I'm being kept busy at the moment with more redundancies and P45's than usual, but if it gets to the point where our clients start going out of business then I could be picking up my own P45.. :shock:

redddraggon

Who says you need a job to commute?

gtvlusso

redddraggon wrote:

Who says you need a job to commute?

Like your thinking!

chuckcork

Last firm I was at laid 3 of us off at once, half of the office staff. They'd apparently had 3 clients go bust the week before and decided they couldn't afford to keep us on any longer. On top of that, clients weren't paying bills because they have no money either. While one of the projects I was working on may go ahead soon there is no certainty they would have needed us as architects as they could just get a design and build contractor onboard, so no keeping me on for that.

I'd been seeing it coming for some time though, that it happened wasn't a shock, more a case of 'oh well'. I'd even been tryingt o interview elsewhere, though as firms were laying off staff everywhere else that predictably went nowhere.

More annoying was that I'd been thinking of starting a post-grad course to up my skills, and got fired a month after I would have had to enrol in one of the courses I'd been looking at doing! The other 2 who got fired with me said the same.

Of those that remain the office manager is tutoring at the local architecture school (CIT), and the director (MD) is also lecturing there as well to bring in some cash.

As for finding work elsewhere, no work for architects in Ireland, in the entire country. (OK OK Ireland has less than half the population living inside the M25 so it doesn't mean much). Looking for alternatives now, and will be moving over to London next week, where at least Mrs Chuck is guaranteed to get full time work (at a higher rate than I could ever get) as shes a dental hygienist, we would have stayed if she had full time work here but none here for her either.

Things might be looking up though, trying to get a telephone interview sorted for tomorrow, and hopefully follow that up with a interview in person next week, for a firm that is bucking the trend and which is presently got more on that it can handle. If I get the job that'll be my Xmas present.





Oh, and the carbon framed racer I'd put off even thinking about buying seeing as I'd like to try 4th cat racing while I'm still young enough )

itboffin

sorry to hear that chuckcork i've been trying to find a way to move to Ireland, I guess Connemara will have to wait for now.

Still there always a bright side if you do come to London you can join the Embankment Peloton

tailwindhome

chuckcork wrote:

Last firm I was at laid 3 of us off at once, half of the office staff. They'd apparently had 3 clients go bust the week before and decided they couldn't afford to keep us on any longer. On top of that, clients weren't paying bills because they have no money either. While one of the projects I was working on may go ahead soon there is no certainty they would have needed us as architects as they could just get a design and build contractor onboard, so no keeping me on for that.

I'd been seeing it coming for some time though, that it happened wasn't a shock, more a case of 'oh well'. I'd even been tryingt o interview elsewhere, though as firms were laying off staff everywhere else that predictably went nowhere.

More annoying was that I'd been thinking of starting a post-grad course to up my skills, and got fired a month after I would have had to enrol in one of the courses I'd been looking at doing! The other 2 who got fired with me said the same.

Of those that remain the office manager is tutoring at the local architecture school (CIT), and the director (MD) is also lecturing there as well to bring in some cash.

As for finding work elsewhere, no work for architects in Ireland, in the entire country. (OK OK Ireland has less than half the population living inside the M25 so it doesn't mean much). Looking for alternatives now, and will be moving over to London next week, where at least Mrs Chuck is guaranteed to get full time work (at a higher rate than I could ever get) as shes a dental hygienist, we would have stayed if she had full time work here but none here for her either.

Things might be looking up though, trying to get a telephone interview sorted for tomorrow, and hopefully follow that up with a interview in person next week, for a firm that is bucking the trend and which is presently got more on that it can handle. If I get the job that'll be my Xmas present.





Oh, and the carbon framed racer I'd put off even thinking about buying seeing as I'd like to try 4th cat racing while I'm still young enough )

Sorry to hear this Chuckcork, the Celtic Tiger seems to be dead.

My home town of Portrush is a mess of unfinished developements and abandoned sites, I suppose its the same all over Ireland

Sorry you have to leave to find work, puts my potential drive to Belfast into perspective.

tailwindhome

redddraggon wrote:

Who says you need a job to commute?

The wife



She doen't know my masterplan of taking 'time off' until the spring and spending quality time on the road bike which I'm buying with the redundancy money.

Hssssh Say nowt

mats

I, find myself in a different situation, We were bought out a couple of years ago and through several re-shuffles and rationalisations My salary has dropped by over 20% I would love to take my redundancy but in the current climate it just does not make sense to do so Good luck to all "between positions".

mats

I, find myself in a different situation, We were bought out a couple of years ago and through several re-shuffles and rationalisations My salary has dropped by over 20% I would love to take my redundancy but in the current climate it just does not make sense to do so Good luck to all "between positions".