facing the possibility of redundancy which will find out tuesday. been in the same job 20 years and been thru several redundancy clear outs before and always got thru but now the workforce is smaller theres not a lot of deadwood left in there to make the choices easy. the managers and hr score us individually and out of 53 shopfloor staff left the bottom 4 are out on tuesday. 1 day i,m ok with it the next i,m s~~~~~g myself. fingers crossed!!
Good luck rocket. Things are really bad out there I've been in the same job for 31 years and can imagine it'd be tough to start again, fingers crossed for you bud.
Good luck bud fingers crossed went through same thing 3 yrs ago But survived said goodbye to some good friends tho so mixed feelings
Good luck. I had to go through this for the firs time at the beginning of this year, 4 out of 21 people had to go and we may have to go through it again before the end of the financial year.
Good luck , I was in the same position at Xmas Only I got the chop.but now working in a hospital And I actually enjoy it so it worked out for the best. No more stress like I was getting working on the shopfloors
thanks guys for replys. colin i,m a test engineer in audio electronics. can pretty much do the job with my eyes shut and upto a few years ago used to train the new people coming into the job and be sort off head fault finder and support the guys on the tech helpline. the way they do things now has changed but still hope they appreciate that i have the old school skills as well as the new way in which we test products. only downside is i,ve come from a family all into technical/mechanical industry and have learnt what i need to do my job but didn,t go to college to get hnc,s etc whch could hamper me from getting a job elsewhere in the same industry. i,m sure i,ll find out soon enough and thanks again for the support.
and just as sods law is i keep seeing this guy around in the neighbouring town on a tidy sp1 but never been able to stop for a natter and his bike has now come up for sale. if things go my way at work i,m going to go take a look!
thats the tough part too gray. everybody i now see, drink and socialise with i,ve met while they worked there even though most have now left i,m still in the loop with them and theres still some good friends i work with. its going to be tough either way if i stay and me buddys go.
well they decided to tell us today and thankfully i still have my job and all the team i work within has too. thats a weight of my shoulders. thanks all
