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Doc · 10-10-2008 2:27pm #1

Was just wondering if anyone is actually looking like losing their job because of the recession? Is it just stories on the news or who here is actually being affected?

Personally it looks like mine will probably go sometime after Christmas. I work for a property development company in London who’s main business was buying houses redesign them so that they could be rented out for the best possible yield and revaluation. With house prices falling our investors are no longer buying property and so as one of the people who designs the houses that we are no longer buying it looks like I don’t have long left here.

I have survived two lots of redundancies going from a team of 8 then 4 and now its just me and the head of my department left and I don’t think they’ll keep us much longer unless the market picks up.

I’m in an okay situation though as I really want to go travelling so I’m saving money and if it happens then I will use it as my excuse to do something I’ve wanted to do for ages… Every cloud and all that.

Just wondering is anyone else in the same boat and if you are, are you going to use it as a way of doing something totally different or that you’ve always wanted to do?

and2 · 10-10-2008 2:28pm

nope, I.T "workers" will always be in demand!

Burial · 10-10-2008 2:36pm

Thank god I chose to work in the banking sector!

Sabre0001 · 10-10-2008 2:39pm

As I said in another thread I'm unemployed so no job insecurity for me!!!

Now that's forcing a silver lining onto a cloud...

Burial · 10-10-2008 2:42pm

So if I paid taxes, you'd be leeching off the welfare service?

Sabre0001 · 10-10-2008 2:44pm

Burial wrote: »

So if I paid taxes, you'd be leeching off the welfare service?

No I'm also not on the Dole....."Off the grid" living

Doc · 10-10-2008 3:05pm

Get a job you hippy!

(Thought I'd get that in while I still can

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seamus · 10-10-2008 3:11pm

I work for a company that makes money whichever way the economy is heading. They still try to use the "recession" argument though to avoid paying for stuff.

humanji · 10-10-2008 3:58pm

I work in the construction industry, and contrary to popular opinion, business is booming for us. It will most likely die down middle of next year, but we're grand for the moment.

Roadend · 10-10-2008 4:03pm

seamus wrote: »

I work for a company that makes money whichever way the economy is heading. They still try to use the "recession" argument though to avoid paying for stuff.

The national mint?

monkeyfudge · 10-10-2008 4:05pm

It's going to be a glorious age for the repo industry.

Only thing that has affected me is the cutbacks on FÁS... I rely on them to provide me with staff. My secretary transferred to another FÁS project a week ago so it leaves me having to deal with a lot more admin work.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 10-10-2008 4:12pm

Stick a CV in your local unemployment office. Bound to be hiring. And they've got grade A proof that you ARE looking for employment...

Cuddlesworth · 10-10-2008 4:47pm

seamus wrote: »

I work for a company that makes money whichever way the economy is heading. They still try to use the "recession" argument though to avoid paying for stuff.

Actually you work for a company that will end up making more money over the short term if a recession really hits. Then profits will slump and we just won't expand at the rate we were.

In case anybody really cares. Recession tends to hit the very low and the high income brackets. So I'm grand.

Doc · 10-10-2008 4:50pm

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

In case anybody really cares. Recession tends to hit the very low and the high income brackets. So I'm grand.

I wouldnt put myself in eather bracket and my jobs Fuc#ed

SoupyNorman · 10-10-2008 4:52pm

and2 wrote: »

nope, I.T "workers" will always be in demand!

Testify.

Kintarō Hattori · 10-10-2008 4:56pm

monkeyfudge wrote: »

It's going to be a glorious age for the repo industry.

Only thing that has affected me is the cutbacks on FÁS... I rely on them to provide me with staff. My secretary transferred to another FÁS project a week ago so it leaves me having to deal with a lot more admin work.

Really........ so right now your secretary-less......?

monkeyfudge · 10-10-2008 5:04pm

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

Really........ so right now your secretary-less......?

Yep... in fact I'm down quite a few people in the office at the moment for a variety of reasons.

It's just me and Blitzkrieg here most days now... now that's depressing!

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 10-10-2008 5:17pm

monkeyfudge wrote: »

Yep... in fact I'm down quite a few people in the office at the moment for a variety of reasons.

It's just me and Blitzkrieg here most days now... now that's depressing!

So hire a hippy then!

fifth · 10-10-2008 6:21pm

I work in the 'credit checking' industry.. and we've had two rounds of redundancies a total of about 60 employees sacked. I'm ok so far.

Don't know for how long though.

Feck it sure.

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