This is a first for me...

[jumpy]

REDUNDANCY

middle management: we were supposed to make 2 million quid this year, and we've only made 800,000... so we're going to have to make some people redundant.

Me: great, who didn't see that one coming?


Bosses lick balls to be quite fking honest. My colleague and I have until Wednesday this week to take voluntary redundancy or they choose who goes on our behalf...

Brass handshakes all round

[STEED]

It's the kick you out of a job season jumpy, just in time for Christmas. I know what it feels like gone though it three times and I too am now facing a fourth time, conformation next or the week after in the big meeting. We have been told we all lost our pensions but in my case I opted out when I joined as I already gone though that process.

[Kapitan]

yeah it is crappy get a job where they cant make you redundant, like my job always needing bin men to work the rounds its not too bad pay either but cant make me redundant.

[Letum]

I have sympathy.
/postal worker blog

[U49]

I know that situation too.
But for one thing you can be sure:

2 millions planned, 800k achieved, that is roughly about 50%.
50% leads us to one you two has to go, OK. I understand this calculation.
BUT:
50% cut in mid-level management ???
50% cut in big-boss-pay-check???

An idea:
Offer both of you to leave (this makes 100% to save money, should make the big-boss happy) and go both to the competition?

[jumpy]

^^
hehe, this is sort of what we've discussed amongst ourselves. Neither of us will be comfortable remaining in an unpleasent situation at work, with the spectre of further redundancy lurking around the next corner.

TBH I find the whole thing to be something to be turned to my advantage = get a better paid job elsewhere after the prefect "reason for leaving your last job" you can't very well say 'because it were ***t!' now can you?

And to top this all off today, my better half is in hospital having her sinuses cleaned out and enlarged slightly. So from about 8pm UK time, I've been sat with my nearest and dearest whilst she has been coughing up blood like you wouldn't believe, bleeding out of her eyes, not her nose as this is packed with gauze etc . As part of an on-going problem, she would have had to wait another 7 months to have it done on the NHS, but is cost 4 days in time to arrange and £2112.00 to have it done in a private hospital. You get better treatment and care if you pay for it, that's for sure.

All round perfect timing for a redundancy eh? Bunch of c**** that they are.

[SUBMAN1]

Being partially redundant is an OK thing. You can make the mistake in which you become indispensable, and in that case, you get a glass ceiling put over your head. You will never get laid off, but you will also never get promoted. Stuck in a dead end job forever unless you physically change it. Redundancy has it's plus side.

-S

[The WosMan]

I hear that.

[STEED]

Originally Posted by jumpy

As part of an on-going problem, she would have had to wait another 7 months to have it done on the NHS, but is cost 4 days in time to arrange and £2112.00 to have it done in a private hospital. You get better treatment and care if you pay for it, that's for sure.

My farther had a choice NHS waiting time one year and no guarantee or BUPA at the cost of £4000 odd pounds and be operated in less than a month he went private. Another year of a lot of pain waiting on the NHS was no way, so much for the Labour promises which turned out to be lies.

Hope your wife is alright jumpy.

[DeepIron]

to take voluntary redundancy...

Excuse my ignorance, is this the same as being voluntarily "laid off" versus "We terminate your employment"?

[STEED]

Originally Posted by DeepIron

Excuse my ignorance, is this the same as being voluntariy "laid off" versus "We terminate your employment"?

What it means you say bye, bye and they don't have the burden to lay you off, I say give them the burden that's why they get the big money.