Another 100 jobs go..

copacetic

Just heard that at least 100 jobs will go tomorrow when the blanchardstown site
of a documentation and cd outsourcing company shuts down.

It is really starting to seem like it is every few days now that these things are happening.


edit: with these, the 300 to go in motorolla and the 560 in proctor and gamble it is some
couple of days.

stepbar

What we are seeing is the first tangible signs of a slow down.

Fewer job vacancies - http://www.rte.ie/business/2007/0308/fas.html
,slowing house market; not looking very good.

copacetic

Here is the news link:

http://www.rte.ie/business/2007/0309/zomax.html


Almost 100 jobs to go in Blanchardstown
Friday, 9 March 2007 14:05

CD and DVD making company Zomax has announced the closure of its Blanchardstown operations with the loss of 98 jobs.

This follows its issuing protective notice to 100 of its 155 staff in Santry last month, following the decision by one of its customers to consolidate its outsourced activities with a different supplier.

The company has blamed competition from lower cost Asian and Eastern European operators for its difficulties here.
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Zomax MD Paddy Burke said the closure was indicative of the global competitive landscape in which Irish based manufacturing must now attempt to operate.

Burke said he is confident of securing the future of the firm's Santry operations.

Steffano2002

And there's Pfizer and Alcatel-Lucent to add to this list... Looks like the beginning of the end...

pikku

And Creative in Blanch as well. And Xerox late last year.

It really does seem like the beginning of the end. Is it really any surprise though given the rise in prices for everything and the outright greed of developers and businesses and service providers (esb, bord gais, eircom etc). Everyone is grabbing all they can off each other in an effort to make a quick buck.

I wish people would see what they're really doing is grinding the whole ecomony to a slow and painful halt....There will come a day when there wont be any money or jobs for anyone anymore - and i fear its not even that far away.

The shortsightedness of it all just galls me....

irishproduce

Thompson Scientific, Vodafone and now O2 have also come out and said they will be laying off 100 staff. Gonna be an interesting election year!!

billy the squid

I am one of the unlucky 170 who received a letter from the liquidator at Ire-tex this morning.

copacetic

billy the squid wrote:

I am one of the unlucky 170 who received a letter from the liquidator at Ire-tex this morning.

Sorry to here that man.

billy the squid

daveym wrote:

Sorry to here that man.

Well it was on the cards since they lost the Dell contract. To be honest I had considered packing (no pun intended) it in because the money was pretty ****. I just needed the kick up the arse to go and look for something else, well, now I have it.

Would have been nice to have had time to find something before the place closed

copacetic

My Dad is in a similar boat, it was coming a long time, he was with the Zomax place I started the thread about..

damnyanks

billy the squid wrote:

Well it was on the cards since they lost the Dell contract. To be honest I had considered packing (no pun intended) it in because the money was pretty ****. I just needed the kick up the arse to go and look for something else, well, now I have it.

Would have been nice to have had time to find something before the place closed

Excellent attitude. Good luck with it.

jmccoy

billy the squid wrote:

Well it was on the cards since they lost the Dell contract. To be honest I had considered packing (no pun intended) it in because the money was pretty ****. I just needed the kick up the arse to go and look for something else, well, now I have it.

Would have been nice to have had time to find something before the place closed

:mad: Bill, how long do you think its going to be before we get our money ? :mad: Oh yeah, I went over to the factory after leaving Dell, the lads over there did a fine job on grabbing stuff

billy the squid

jmccoy wrote:

:mad: Bill, how long do you think its going to be before we get our money ? :mad: Oh yeah, I went over to the factory after leaving Dell, the lads over there did a fine job on grabbing stuff

Was told 6 to 10 weeks, I am not even sure what kind of redundancy package we are getting.

Being on holidays I was not at the meeting yesterday, **** , I wasn't even invited. Just got a phonecall from supervisor saying "I got bad news for you, Iretex is gone, we got two hours notice"

irishproduce

Man, I worked there during college a few years ago, out the dock road ya, corcanree I think it was.
It's worrying though, so many places closing up and cutting employee numbers all over the place!!