... Will i get my Redundancy letter tomorrow???????

My work took the piss last month by laying people off, they said it was done fairly with things being taken into consideration. Ie time keeping, how long we have been their, what our quality of work is like, how many machines we can use etc etc. Me and another lad got layed off after working nights for a solid 18 months, between us we had 2 nights off sick. We made 1 off panels for people, made sure we always finished our work etc.

Guess who got layed off Been back their for a 3 day week and found out that 26 men said no to a 4 day week for everyone, compared to 23 who said yes.

Turns out they layed us off first cos we were on nights and earned more money , they then said the redundancies will be done fair this time

Anyone else in a similar situation???

 

All the best mate. My brother is in the same situation. Someone being layed off in work every other week. Luckily he is one of the best at his job, so he's been OK so far.

Benni.

 

Thanks Benni, as the saying goes "It's not what you know it's who you know"

 

proper shitty on a personal note i've just had 3 job interviews confirmed today

1 where i'm the only person who got threw to the interview stage

another where i'm 1 of 2 people our of 9 that have got to the interview stage

and the other want me to start ASAP without an interview for a 1 month contract at £15 per hr and could be a rolling contract after another month

wierd is that since i finished my contract in July i've had nowt then 3 confirmed interview, jobs in 1 day

hope you find sommit soon

 

The md of the company i work for announced redundancies last monday about 18 in total,there were a few who got brown envelopes (redundant)yesterday some suprises though.Told us the same story about attendance,how long you've worked there etc. Looks like the area I work in escaped this time

 

That is quiet naughty as it's unlawful to make redundancies based on the examples you mentioned, ie time keeping, etc. This should be addressed seperately through the correct performance management channels. They shouldn't be basing their decisions on such things.....

 

we had several redunancies issued today!

 

Happened to me last year. Did get a good pay out in the end.

 

thats true but there is always a way round it.. ive just been made redundant by a large nationwide windscreen firm..out of 10 of us 7 had to go....we all reapplied and was given a score based on sort sorts of crap.. anyway, i have 10 year at the company with excellent attendance and a lad with 1 year experience gets the job! god knows who/how they came to that decision? hes a good lad so i dont feel as bad.

 

happend to me when tvr went bang,but was laid off 3months before,

 

my company is making redundancies

 

yea so is ours.... we are taking one month at a time....



Very bad times....

 

we have reginalised or finance department, so about 20 people have be made reduntant, but we have found everyone a job and they have taken the reduntacy money.

luck cunts 7 of the people have been there more than 15 years, so they will be taking a nice 20k with them

cunt why will they not make me reduntant

 

i got made redundant a few weeks ago along with 8 others

 

Sad times, for once i'm glad i work where i do, everyone needs salt!
And they are moving into gas storage aswell soon so thats gotta be a bonus
Although there are less and less wagons in every day, although i think thats more to do with the company being crap not the financial state of the country !

 

You must be applying for highly skilled jobs!!! I know round here there is often well over 100 applications for every low skilled/semi skilled job.

 

Yup same up here in north east, the company i work for has paid shit loads off lately, there was a canny few agency lads there, they went a while ago, then all the temps have gone/going in the next month now, probably almost half the workforce gone now to date, the permanent lads are starting to take their bit now. Sad Sad times.

 

Be careful what you wish for!

I finished a contract at Christmas and thought finding a new one would be a breeze so went off for a week in the sun and a relax into the new year.

Then couldn't get anything else, until, finally, I started a new job on Monday, which I'm really quite excited about, but the economy is a worry in any selling job, especially expensive fleet cars.

 

Thats what's happened in our work, around 25 agency lads got finished up. Now it's the permanant lads.

 

I'm safe for the moment and hopefully for the forseable future, my phone never stops i could work 365 a year if i wanted wherever i wanted and ask for as much as i want within reason(400-500 a day is not out the question if there deprate)

Happy days

 

here where at the hotel i work as head chef as long as my old man stays as manager i still have a job but i've handed my notice in cos the owner of the hotel is a cunt and has stopped helping the hotel out in this time of crisis cos me and my dad got it to brake even and not on a loss he stopped spending
so i found a new job with less hours only 40hrs a week not 85 and a 7k pay rise and i dont even run the kitchen in the new job

sorry abit of topic

 

you got that wrong mate,in my experience "its what you know about who you know"

 

My place (Severn Trent Water) is taking 3 new blokes on in our department so I asume my job is safe.
Rich

 

my gaffer takon on 8 new drivers and has got at least 5 smaller haulage firms subbing for him so im hoping my job safe

 

I got to find a job before i can be made redundant

Problem round here with high unemployment is that they can literally make any demands they want even for unskilled jobs and theres still people who can meet the qualification demand. I bet they could ask for a degree for a cleaners job and there is probably enough degree qualified people to apply for it

 

Try bein a self-employed Bricklayer at the moment!
I'm working at the mo but i could get the boot any time, no notice or sod all.
I get mates phoning up everyday nearly looking for work.
Hope the economy picks up ASAP!