Is it this bad everywhere?

ginandtonic1988

Of the six people in my street that I know really well, two have been made redundant, one is on a three day week, one whose job was snowed under with work last year can now do her job standing on her head and one is having to travel huge distances to get work as for my job I work in conveyancing so who knows!! I really hope some of the goverment interventions work cause if they don't god knows what its gonna be like in a years time:eek:

Really2

ginandtonic1988 wrote: »

Of the six people in my street that I know really well, two have been made redundant, one is on a three day week, one whose job was snowed under with work last year can now do her job standing on her head and one is having to travel huge distances to get work as for my job I work in conveyancing so who knows!! I really hope some of the goverment interventions work cause if they don't god knows what its gonna be like in a years time:eek:

I don't know any one redundant or any of my neighbours, touch wood.

purch

Is it this bad everywhere?

I doubt it..............sounds like you know some very unlucky people.

P.S. That is not meant to be a 'flippant' answer

Cannon_Fodder

700 of 2100 to be made redundant or out-sourced UK-wide in the large insurer where I am an outsourced resource awaiting 25% redundancies in our organisation...

What part of the country?

Any coincidence in the industry/subsidiary industries affected?

chewmylegoff

Really2 wrote: »

I don't know any one redundant or any of my neighbours, touch wood.

me neither, but that might be because i live in london and i've never spoken to any of them.

Really2

chewmylegoff wrote: »

me neither, but that might be because i live in london and i've never spoken to any of them.

lol very good.:rotfl:

StevieJ

ginandtonic1988 wrote: »

Of the six people in my street that I know really well, two have been made redundant, one is on a three day week, one whose job was snowed under with work last year can now do her job standing on her head and one is having to travel huge distances to get work as for my job I work in conveyancing so who knows!! I really hope some of the goverment interventions work cause if they don't god knows what its gonna be like in a years time:eek:

I take it you are from the North as you know your neighbours.

purch

Most of my neighbours are Sheep (with the odd pheasant hanging around trying to avoid getting shot !!!! :eek: )

chucky

purch wrote: »

Most of my neighbours are Sheep (with the odd pheasant hanging around trying to avoid getting shot !!!! :eek: )

i love peasant shooting

i know of a one being made redundant but found a job within a few weeks.

but have heard of quite a few that have had contract rates cut by 10%.

boyse7en

purch wrote: »

Most of my neighbours are Sheep (with the odd pheasant hanging around trying to avoid getting shot !!!! :eek: )

Shoot them? waste of bullets. Just drive around here and you can run two or three over easily, the stupid bug... err birds don't even try and get out of the way.

On topic, I don't know of anyone made redundant/short week either. I live in a pretty rural area, so there are very few large manufacturing employers. Even the builders (small one- or two-man outfits) are busy doing stuff.

nibs

I worked for 27 years in the same company but was made redundant early this year.
Got a job within a couple of months but just been told I'm losing it after xmas due to the recession.
DH employers have gone from 120 to 35 over the past year and they are starting to make more cutbacks at the moment.
Friends in the building trade all laid off indefinatly.
I'm from the south btw.