Felixstowe Docks in trouble?

pickles110564

Vinegartits wrote: »

Agreed, Pickles is a piece of work who takes delight in alienating half the board and infuriating the other half (I admit to having him on ignore, unfortunately people keep quoting him!) but he, and Jetski and others lest we forget, are undoubtedly suffering at the moment and I for one am trying to understand that perhaps the behaviour we are seeing on here is just one man's way of coping with unbearable pressure. He has admitted to huge debts and presumably counted on that full salary to service those debts; I am sure you can at least imagine how he must be feeling facing losing 10% or more of that salary, can you not find it within yourself to forgive and forget?

Like I have said before all they are stopping from me is BONUS and that is never taken for granted by anyone.

pickles110564

Vinegartits wrote: »

So panic over! Pickles has a piece of paper saying there will be no further redundancies which of course will be honoured. We must try to forget that when the dockers were told before Christmas that there would be no redundancies, within weeks there were 200 of them.

There has not been 200 redundencies, where have you got this from?
Some members of staff took the generous voluntary redundency packages that were on offer.
Mewbie every member of staff has the same letter.

Willievergetone

pickles110564 wrote: »

There has not been 200 redundencies, where have you got this from?
Some members of staff took the generous voluntary redundency packages that were on offer.
Mewbie every member of staff has the same letter.

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mewbie_2

pickles110564 wrote: »

1) you have not even got the right amount of people that work at the Port.

But the article says this...

The 2,500 management and quayside workers at Felixstowe have been told the port needs to make savings quickly with its downturn in business equal to having lost one of its major customers.

Willievergetone

pickles110564 wrote: »

Like I have said before all they are stopping from me is BONUS and that is never taken for granted by anyone.

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pickles110564

mewbie wrote: »

But the article says this...

The 2,500 management and quayside workers at Felixstowe have been told the port needs to make savings quickly with its downturn in business equal to having lost one of its major customers.

I might be wrong:rolleyes: But I am sure at the last count there was about 3400

jetski690

mewbie wrote: »

But the article says this...

The 2,500 management and quayside workers at Felixstowe have been told the port needs to make savings quickly with its downturn in business equal to having lost one of its major customers.

To be honest with you there's so much going on at the moment with people taking voluntary packages
daily I doubt the company itself knows how many people are left on the books.

mewbie_2

pickles110564 wrote: »

I might be wrong:rolleyes: But I am sure at the last count there was about 3400

Do you think they could have got rid of 900 without you noticing?

jetski690

mewbie wrote: »

Do you think they could have got rid of 900 without you noticing?

They could have got rid of 900 managers without the workforce knowing.

SingleSue

Also worrying news was that the Port have pulled out of sponsoring our local carnival, something they have done for years and years, even throughout the last recession.

It has been blamed on the current economic crisis, the job losses and the fact that they cannot be seen to be frivolous when people are losing their jobs.

On their own, these stories are a little nervy but when taken together, they become a little bit scary!