space hoppers

not a good day at my work the bosses [ tossers] made 15 guys redundent some of them have been there over 25 years and thats how you get treated i am in the print trade which is slowly going down hill wot trade are you in and is it suffering as well

Benn 304R

Im in the valeting trade and this drought order isnt doing us any good, got 6 month drought order here

rstoughy

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Oil business M8 so its up and down all the Łecking time

sorry to hear that M8

Never good to hear about job losses.

space hoppers

yep it really pisses you off some of the guys are in late 50s not much chance of gettin another job in print for them. bosses can be very hard even when everyone has been busting a gut to help

OldSkoolRS

A relatively big printers in Medway folded a few years back laying loads of people off. The guy who owned it even filthed all the staff for their pensions too.

space hoppers

that sais it all mate robbin basters

Micky

Used to be in the print trade,but got layed off twice!!!So am well out of it now since July 2005.Regards Micky

Steve200+

Car Trade. On it's fucking arse, just about starting to pick up, and the World Cup turns up, which means I'll be on Ryvita and gruel for 4 weeks

THEYGOTMETOO

Mainly precision and general engineering / fabrication .... most people in the same trade seem to moan constantly about being hard up but I don't know anyone in engineering who isn't working at capacity including us ... ...

Lots of competition from the Chinese now as they are so cheap, the quality of their work is normally shit but its slowly getting better which is a bad sign for the UK and also the US engineering sectors.

For me personally things are Just got a nice fat new contact which means I don't need to even think about looking for work (although I will be) for the next five years, at which time I might chuck the whole thing in

On the downside 20 hour days and not sleeping for several days in a row are not uncommon for me

CossieRich

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Sorry to hear this James. Is your job safe?

space hoppers

yes mate im ok my press is the one that keeps the company going very preductive. it always happens to me when i go on hols when i get back something goes tits up at work

bud-weis

Water Industry,and there's no drought restrictions in my region!!!

should be fine as long as people still need water

AndyRST

Who/what company is that m8?

Im a photocopier/HV printer engineer in Kent and buisness is doing well mainly down to my boss selling the right manfacturer printers/copiers and the larger boom in office colour printing

shane

joiner and we're booked up til august but most builders etc are sat at home! just hope we keep busy bin doin it 3 years now and never been slack yet!but got many years ahead of me to worry about!

Phil DJ

I make ecojoists for the building trade. There's talk of houses being built for the next 20 odd years so my job's safe til i'm 44 years old in theory.


Sorry to hear about your place tho. Especially people of that age.

donny murdo

Never good to hear about folk loosing their jobs
Im a printer too, things are a bit bleak tbh, got two weeks in rhodes end of next week, just hope I have a job when I come back, used to be a safe industry but you never know these days, been with the same company ten years as well

space hoppers

cheers for the comments guys . all wots happened makes you re valulate your career and if you could change it before its too late