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John Waples BT is preparing to axe another 10,000 jobs

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It is nice to see the value of your house going up'' Why ?
Unless you are planning to sell up and not live anywhere, I can;t see the advantage.
If you are planning to upsize the new house will cost more.
If you are planning to downsize your new house will cost more than it should
If you are trying to buy your first house its almost impossible.
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  • misskool
    misskool Posts: 12,832 Forumite
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    is this making your job losses count up to 30,000 now?

    You seem to revel in people losing their jobs, why?
  • ad44downey
    ad44downey Posts: 2,246 Forumite
    More green weeds
    Krusty & Phil Madoff, 1990 - 2007:
    "Buy now because house prices only ever go UP, UP, UP."
  • over financed
    Not Again
  • ukcarper
    ukcarper Posts: 17,337 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    BT have been shedding jobs for years due to various reasons and would be doing it recession or no recession.
  • donaldtramp
    donaldtramp Posts: 761 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Combo Breaker
    http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090412/tuk-bt-set-to-axe-another-10-000-jobs-6323e80.html
    Telecoms group BT is poised to axe another 10,000 jobs as part of a redundancy programme due to be announced next month.....
  • ad9898_3
    ad9898_3 Posts: 3,858 Forumite
    Some more news that will go hand in hand with stablising house prices.....not.
  • chewmylegoff
    chewmylegoff Posts: 11,466 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    couldn't be bothered to even check the first page to see if there was already a thread on this, eh?
  • geoffky
    geoffky Posts: 6,835 Forumite
    misskool wrote: »
    is this making your job losses count up to 30,000 now?

    You seem to revel in people losing their jobs, why?

    .you ask me that question thinking i REVEL in people losing their jobs..i don't but i do care that people are informed and by being informed the can make decisions with the knowledge they have
    Would you like people to be kept in the dark with no knowledge about what is going on around them and then all of a sudden their world falls apart because they never saw what was coming and never had chance to prepare themselves or their finances
    Because i believe this is not just a little blip and all will be well in the next couple of years then you are doing yourself a and your dependents a disservice because this is far bigger than we have had before and the people in charge are not capable of fixing it without the people at the bottom going through so much pain that it will change their lives for ever and i make no apologies to no one for trying to warn people about it and hope they are able to come out of it best as they can...
    i have seen poverty real and percieved poverty in places in east and west africa
    I have lived in corrupt countries like honduras costa rica ect ect and we are no where near them but in this country if things go the way i think they will go we will see poverty on a scale not seen since before the war....and if one person reads one of my posts and backs off from getting themselves into uneceserry debt when the bogeyman is just around the corner. i will be happy....
    It is nice to see the value of your house going up'' Why ?
    Unless you are planning to sell up and not live anywhere, I can;t see the advantage.
    If you are planning to upsize the new house will cost more.
    If you are planning to downsize your new house will cost more than it should
    If you are trying to buy your first house its almost impossible.
  • Really2
    Really2 Posts: 12,397 Forumite
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    geoffky wrote: »
    .but i do care that people are informed and by being informed the can make decisions with the knowledge they have

    It's a news paper quote the majority of people read newspapers and not this site?

    Do you think people do not realise what things are like?
  • mr.broderick
    mr.broderick Posts: 3,778 Forumite
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    edited 12 April 2009 at 11:52PM
    geoffky wrote: »
    .you ask me that question thinking i REVEL in people losing their jobs..i don't but i do care that people are informed and by being informed the can make decisions with the knowledge they have
    Would you like people to be kept in the dark with no knowledge about what is going on around them and then all of a sudden their world falls apart because they never saw what was coming and never had chance to prepare themselves or their finances
    Because i believe this is not just a little blip and all will be well in the next couple of years then you are doing yourself a and your dependents a disservice because this is far bigger than we have had before and the people in charge are not capable of fixing it without the people at the bottom going through so much pain that it will change their lives for ever and i make no apologies to no one for trying to warn people about it and hope they are able to come out of it best as they can...
    i have seen poverty real and percieved poverty in places in east and west africa
    I have lived in corrupt countries like honduras costa rica ect ect and we are no where near them but in this country if things go the way i think they will go we will see poverty on a scale not seen since before the war....and if one person reads one of my posts and backs off from getting themselves into uneceserry debt when the bogeyman is just around the corner. i will be happy....

    Rubbish, you're just selfish like the rest.
    Any news that you think may bring house prices closer to your affordability level, you revel in, be honest..people will have more respect for you.
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