Is The Recession Affecting You?

[ronnie21]

I get the feeling that some companys are using the recession as an excuse to make cut backs for the sake of cut backs.

Totally agree with you on that one Yeovil.  Couldn't believe the news that Thames Water are having difficulties and chopping 300+ jobs, guess we all still use the water or have we all cut back on it!!  According to a neighbour who works there the ones who are staying are being forced into different working patterns just to keep their jobs, with the threat of a transfer to India for the call centre an option.

[RobertT]

Thames is not so much credit crunchy as years of spending far too much to provide a very basic service.  It's a hangover from being a previously Nationalised industry and the kind of attitude that encourages within some staff.  Credit crunch just means people begin paying real close attention to the figures for a change, so as Yeovil says, plenty of companies who are healthy will also use this time to trim down.  Give a few years and things will have bottomed out and begun moving back to growth again.  The hope is that people learn and the companies who survive do so because they are better.  It's no wonder the ones suffering now are car manufatcurers - easy money in the good times when the Jones' need keeping up with, but show themselves as patently archaic when bad times have hit.  It's a shocker they'e reacted so slowly on the green front for example, so little real advancement in design of cars over the past 40 years compared to how far other areas of science have moved on.

[Simon Pieman]

My firm have promised no redundancies, so they do that to me and heads will role. So instead they will try and make me leave '[of my own accord'. Nobody in my office will not know what's happened by tomorrow though, I'm going to make it known without saying what's happened to me. A coupleof phone calls in the open will ensure that.

Don't think it will have any other effect than make me feel better, but people should know what position they are in.

[oxford_fan]

guess we all still use the water or have we all cut back on it!! 

yep, we've cut back on utilities; mainly electricity and to a lesser degree water.

[Simon Pieman]

Where's arriba's avatar when you need it?

I'm a bit drunk can't you tell?

[yeo]

Not really no.

I have cut back on being able to tell things though.

[Simon Pieman]

good good. I thought I may have re-gained my fat drunken fingers, I'm sure I can't find the space bar. In fact knowing I can't find the space bar probably just makes me stupid, rather than drunk.

[yeo]

Call it "cutting back on space bar usage"

[Simon Pieman]

Wow my typos aren't too bad at all.

I may add drunken typing to my skills on my CV 

[Simon Pieman]

I just added it all up and even if I use all my remaining holiday it's going to cost me £5,800.

That's 40% of my take home pay. Cunts.

[Luci]

All staff meeting at 11am - all staff must attend.  Sounds ominous.

 

[LucienSanchez]

All staff meeting at 11am - all staff must attend.  Sounds ominous.

 

Good luck mate

[Jamiesfuturewife]

thats what happened to us Tuesday Morning

hoprfully yours in just to tell people off for using Facebook at work too much or something?

[Luci]

Hmmmm im not convinced.

I should be ok due to the size of the account I work on as its tri-regional but as theres a domestic side of the business, I worry for them.

[Sippo]

Just been on the phone to a supplier, and they say that Hewlett Packard are having huge cash flow problems...