I hope you don't work in London and have a job in IT!!!
 

20K jobs in London's IT field to be axed!

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04...sses_forecast/

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Keep crowing.

It's simply a warning to those in the market. Yes, I read British newspapers - the Reg in this case, so don't be surprised when I pull an article about the UK once in a while. Sheshh!

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Well they got pots of money so I don't really care.

In my area (Northern England) social depravation is a common factor in many peoples lives, so I guess us Northerners will be able to feel a bit of empathy for them.

Heres hoping there is a sudden upturn in the financial sector.

No thanks, it's about time it all went to hell and the country falls apart, why? It may wake people up for a long over due revolution to restore what has been lost, democracy.

Fortunately, workers in the UK are nowhere near as badly off as in the USA:

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/to...cle3682815.ece

I tend to disagree. This raised un-employment to 5.1%, which is still way better than the Clinton years. Clinton's best numbers were 5.2% unemployment. Bush has maintained 4.8% throughout his presidency.

And the job losses are for the IT sector above as noted. Yours covers a much wider margin - everything.

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Precisely my point...

You lost me on your point...???

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Is this all you really do all day? :huh:

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

As was said in another thread. We are all doomed in Britain. Doooomed. :arrgh!:

+ load patches, fix systems, and calming really annoyed people down when a server crashes and goes offline, then I get to fix it, and then I sometimes have to lay down the law on IT when users get out of line, and then sometimes I have to tell users how to do something 10 times over and in 15 different ways, and they still don't get it! :p SO yeah, I catch up on my news tickers that usually come in via RSS while waiting for some stupid server patch to load. Lots of hurry up and wait in my world. And then there is the nail biting that goes on while everyone counts on you to make a critical system to work. Sounds a bit like war, no? 99% boredom, 1% hair raising action!

So yes, to answer your question, I'm bored! :D Hence my latching on to any IT story. Anymore questions? Want my job? It pays a lot, but not necessarily fun or exciting at points in time, followed by periods of dread and hate when everyones eyes are on you and you are the cause of all their failed communications simply because it must be your fault that some RAM chip decided not to run for 20 years straight! :p

Maybe its time to start a business of my own and get out of this world and make my own way. Its much more fun to design and build custom high performance PC or something. Create an Alienware type company? Maybe start a consulting firm? Dunno. Still thinking about it. Maybe I'll design and sell guns to the police and military. That might be more entertaining too. Just some thoughts.

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PS. Totally funny - a firewall crashed as I was posting this. How ironic. Back working now.

Well, if you need more excitement, the employees could simply bring guns to work. When system goes down, they could shoot at you while you're attempting to fix the problem, thus making your analogy to war even more appropriate. :p

Or maybe you could start a business designing guns for IT employees. Seems they might need them to help offset lay-offs.

Keep in mind that unemployment figures only count unemployed people who are actively looking for a job. People who've given up, people who've gone back to school full time and stay-at-home mothers aren't counted in that statistic.

It IS possible to have more job, yet less unemployement.