[Closed] Looks like im going to be made redundant tomorrow

If someone offered it to me right now (sitting in my office after 14 hours at work), I'd be doing the same.

Good luck.

i had a phone call last month where the boss came on all sombre and how he was really sorry to have to put me on notice ....

i replied with "im not surprised , the only thing that surprises me is that it hasnt happened sooner the companies in a shit state"

i didnt make the cut for redundancy.... AWKWARD !

four of us on the team , 2 of us are expected to go in january in a second round .

PICK ME PICK ME ..... and i know that folk who have been made redundant are probably thinking me and the posters above dont really mean it or will regret joking about it when it happens......

i wont.

First time was awesome!

“Here’s a pile of cash to leave a job you hate”.

Second time less so. Still a lot more jobs around these days.

Yep - loads of jobs picking potatoes now the Yerpeans are going home

The wife got made redundant the other week, discussed on Wednesday gone on Friday. Chuffed as she was going to sack it anyway 🙂

I'll be going self employed.
Ive literally been gifted a business by a neighbour who's just retired and looking for someone to take over his business. Im going to open some rum to toast my good fortune.

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got made redundant 18 months ago. (got told of redundancies on the Monday, had a new job by the Thursday when they told me i was one of those going - i.e. one of those who had been with the company less than 2 years) New job was far better until... this month

new company just now = they've told us from 1st december they are reducing our wages by 20%, you can sign this letter to agree to it, or not... but we are still reducing your wages.

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Don't worry about it OP. I had a meeting with the No.1 governor in September. She said, 'It's my decision to let you go on the grounds of medical inefficiency'. I said, 'Thank **** for that, see ya, wouldn't wanna be ya'

Got a casual job driving minibuses for the local council & could not be happier.

Hey Gov, stick your prison officers job up ya jacksie.

Got booted out of a job a year ago last July, that I’d been in for eleven years, and which had become sheer misery, to the extent I went to my doctor for advice about my physical and mental health.
Told I was being let go due to failure to meet the ever more exacting and demanding work loads, had a new job within a month as a logistics driver moving cars around the country for an auction business, and apart from quiet periods when the team gets stood down, which might be up to a month, but has only happened once since I started, I couldn’t be happier, I love the job; I get paid to drive other people’s cars, using their fuel, listening to the radio, visiting parts of the country I’d otherwise never see, and get paid to do it.
Weeks can be long, but I only actually drive half the hours I claim for, the other half is being transported between job drop-offs and pick-ups.
Tomorrow is a drop-off in Avonmouth, a pickup in Kent, dropping off in Surrey, then a pickup in Southampton which I drive home then drop-off in Avonmouth on Thursday morning.
😀

Lord Summerisle - you need union / legal advice. they cannot do that.

Job I now hate (check)
Enough LOS to make any payout (even statutory) decent (check)
Buoyant job market (check)
Wanting to relocate job, as current commute is a mare (check)
Company increasingly shipping a lot of the work I do to Eastern Europe as labour is 1/3 the price (check)
Made lotsa redundancies this time last year (check)

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Looks like im going to be made redundant tomorrow

Are you a web developer for singletrackworld.com? 😉

Are you a web developer for singletrackworld.com?

I got made redundant in May. I was "working from home" (I hadn't actually had any work for 12 months, I just had to sit tight and wait for the payout). When they told me over the phone I put a bottle of Champagne in the fridge and went out on the bike. I arrived in Canada late July, rode the Divide then holidayed with wifey in Arizona. I'm thinking about looking for a job but only because wifey is on my case.

tjagain: we know they can't "legally"

The majority of the office isn't signing the letter and looking for new jobs. Problem is several of us have been here less than 2 years, so we wouldn't be able to claim constructive dismissal... all we could do is sue for our missing wages

Can i join in...being made redundant end of Feb!
I don't hate the job or the company, but it's not what i want to do and this way i get paid to leave.

All that's great...the hard bit now is working out just exactly what it is i do want to do - much easier said than done!

Tj . Like you say they can't....

But what they can do is put your role redundant and advertise different rolls with different key duties and lower wages and invite you to reapply.

Our UK arm went through this a while back. Not fun. Back fired on them as several coalface staff said poke it

Happened to me earlier this year. A bolt out of the blue. Totally unexpe Ted. Wasn't the best day I've had, but found a job easy enough, couple of emails and an interview, sorted. Same industry too, much to my surprise.

It's not as bad as you think and there's always the money to spend or stash away for a rainy day. Mind you, it helps if you're an old fart with no drains on your income. More worrisome I guess if you've got a mortgage and kids still at home to worry about.

Nice, not jealous at all.

I actually like my job at the moment but I'm planning on leaving it in a few years time so I can relocate out of the city. There's a possibility of one or two redundancies in the new year as restructuring is going on and I'd be quite happy to be picked. The payoff should be decent (about 6 month's wages) so it would mean I could move plans forward. I've been saving hard for the last 2 years so all that added together would make the sums add up nicely. Sadly I've managed to engineer myself into being as near-indispensable as you can in my workplace so it's pretty much guaranteed they'll find a way of me not getting picked. Still, my original plan to get out is on target so it won't be the end of the world if I do end up staying for another 3 years.