Got made reduntant today-what to do now

NachoBusiness · 19-02-2015 12:30AM

Better that than having to leave work through ill health. Look on the positives.

If you have redundancy money coming, maybe it could be a wait of setting yourself up in business.

Enterprise board may help.

Mate of mine was suicidal after he lost his job but ended up studying food production and with his redundancy cash he actually brought a product he and his girlfriend developed to market.

Now he can't believe he how bothered he was. One door closes and all that..

MonkeyTennis · 19-02-2015 12:36AM

Anyone who says you should dive right back is full of it.

Take some time off .. at least two weeks. Then think about getting back in.

Use that time to reflect. Yes go out and blow off some steam.

Best of luck!

deco nate · 19-02-2015 12:59AM

donegaLroad wrote: »

what is your line of work OP? The last time I was given the heave-ho was in 2001, I have been working for myself since barr one 3 month contract in an office job.

Water meter installations is my guess

Specialun · 19-02-2015 01:08AM

Im in IT sales

deco nate · 19-02-2015 01:11AM

Specialun wrote: »

Im in IT sales

Not for much longer!

(sorry, bad joke)

All the best for the future

Specialun · 19-02-2015 01:16AM

deco nate wrote: »

Not for much longer!

(sorry, bad joke)

All the best for the future

Haha

I laughed..

Links234 · 19-02-2015 01:17AM

Go watch the entire series of Girls und Panzer. Seriously, 12 episodes, absolutely bonkers concept, and its way better than you might think. You'd have it watched over a weekend at a relaxed pace tbh

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater · 19-02-2015 01:17AM

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

The social welfare office are never too pleased about having to make back payments so get this sorted as soon as you can. The experience of setting foot in those filthy kips of offices will spur you into getting a job fairly quickly.

This kind of attitude pisses me off. What makes you think they don't like paying arrears? The money isn't coming out of their pockets so why would they give a toss? Any excuse to have a snipe at PS workers.

The advice is right though OP, straight in to make an appointment to sign on for your Jobseekers Benefit.

pmy.murphy · 19-02-2015 01:51AM

Sheep Lover wrote: »

Get shacked up with the town slut, have six kids, develop a habit for cheap lager and domestic violence, get a white vest and tattoo your arms with that hideous blue ink they use?

You know, the scrounger lifestyle.

Dutch Gold seems to be the most popular brand of beer for scroungers these days. Sure whats the point in working at all when ya can get rewarded more for being a complete waste of space with 7 or 8 illegitimate sprogs. Ireland really is a great country

Sheep Lovers attitude towards life is quite refreshing indeed. Sure at the end of the day, "Ya can bate the wife but ya cant bate the craic"

Basicly OP you should take a leaf out of this guys book

http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/assets/6/e32b88aead4d17322711e0127601c4d0055cde6b_m.jpg

The laid back lifestyle certainly didnt do Onslow any harm(or good for that matter)

BunkMoreland · 19-02-2015 01:59AM

Go on the dole and stay on it until you've earned back all the tax you've paid over the years.

dr strangelove · 19-02-2015 02:38AM

Remove trousers; fetch beer; play Elite:Dangerous until your eyes bleed.

You're welcome.

Tony EH · 19-02-2015 02:42AM

Specialun wrote: »

Well as title suggest..myself and 40 others , some on contract..no doubt there be nothing on news about it

Not feeling too bad at moment..perhaps it hasnot dawned on me

Do i take a few days off- or drive straight into job hunting..has it happened to you

Cheer me up AH folk

Don't worry the economy is on the rise!

*yeh right*

Egginacup · 19-02-2015 02:46AM

Specialun wrote: »

Well as title suggest..myself and 40 others , some on contract..no doubt there be nothing on news about it

Not feeling too bad at moment..perhaps it hasnot dawned on me

Do i take a few days off- or drive straight into job hunting..has it happened to you

Cheer me up AH folk

Take at LEAST a month if not two before looking for another position.
Sleep and listen to soft music for a week. Then go fcuk your brains out in Magaluf while you still have a mickey. Then get back in the rat race and die a second death.

Steppenwolfe · 19-02-2015 03:06AM

That can't be right OP. I keep hearing we have the fastest growing economy in Europe now. Unemployment is falling and exports are rising. Not to mention the booming house market. In the next budget we can even afford to lower the higher rate of income tax for those poor buggers struggling on the bigger salaries. God help them. We are the poster boys of Europe don't you know. Not like those nasty commie Greeks. All we have to do is listen to Enda and Joan and keep taking it up the arse.

So you must be confused OP. Ask your boss again. 40 redundancies just doesn't fit in to that scenario. Or maybe it's all just a dream

Just a little Samba · 19-02-2015 05:52AM

Hey OP are you due any severance pay?

If so I recommend after signing on (immediately) and throwing your CV onto some recuiters, using some of it to pay some outgoings upfront. throw some money onto your ESB bill (purposely over pay to put it into credit), phone UPC and ask if you can pay 3 or 4 month up front, sort out a month or two worth of loan/Morgtage/rent payments, stuff like that.

Once that's done, take a few days to go on a city break somewhere nice and just relax. Ryanair have really cheap flights to Lisbon right now, lovely city, will be nice sunny, food is great and it's cheap as chips. Go watch a match at either Benfica or Sporting while you're there too, the games rarely sell out and tickets are extremely cheap for the standard of football.

As an aside, do you work for o2?

Three will be letting a lot of 3/o2 staff go at the end of this month when their retail footprint is finally consolidated.

hairyslug · 19-02-2015 07:02AM

Just a little Samba wrote: »

Hey OP are you due any severance pay?

If so I recommend after signing on (immediately) and throwing your CV onto some recuiters, using some of it to pay some outgoings upfront. throw some money onto your ESB bill (purposely over pay to put it into credit), phone UPC and ask if you can pay 3 or 4 month up front, sort out a month or two worth of loan/Morgtage/rent payments, stuff like that.

Once that's done, take a few days to go on a city break somewhere nice and just relax. Ryanair have really cheap flights to Lisbon right now, lovely city, will be nice sunny, food is great and it's cheap as chips. Go watch a match at either Benfica or Sporting while you're there too, the games rarely sell out and tickets are extremely cheap for the standard of football.

As an aside, do you work for o2?

Three will be letting a lot of 3/o2 staff go at the end of this month when their retail footprint is finally consolidated.

Im one of those lucky people, don't work for o2/three but with them (distribution) and there are 11 of us gone from quite a small operation due to it.

Anyone got any jobs going, I'll do anything, really ANYTHING

kmc25_1 · 19-02-2015 08:13AM

How about reskilling before / while you job seek? You happy in IT sales ? If yes are there specific areas you are interested in?
Would you be interested in software development at all? The multi nationals are constantly looking for software developers.
I was made redundant once. Put a plan together to finish off a college course while out of work. Got a job before I got going at it but it felt positive to have a plan and be choosing what I wanted.

Not saying my advice is better in general than some of the advice above. I think it depends on your personality and circumstances. It suited me better to feel like I was improving myself. I can see the good in kicking back for a while also.

Annasopra · 19-02-2015 08:31AM

http://www.gettingbacktowork.ie/

Saipanne · 19-02-2015 08:37AM

pablo128 wrote: »

Start looking for a job right away. There's a load of those b@stard water meter scabs being let go this week too. Get in before them.:pac:

It took a whole three pages before the thread was I-Winned.

Getting better, lads

Timothy Bryce · 19-02-2015 09:07AM

I understand OP, having been there myself.

I'm in IT sales and was made redundant in 2009, got a small payout and put the money towards up skilling myself. If you can afford to do this, I'd highly recommend it - I was hired by an IT firm in Dublin in 2010 based on my sales experience and after 3 years have started to look towards doing something other than sales.

IT sales in particular is basically fcuk or walk at the moment, and when cutbacks happen, sales are usually the first to go. For me I didn't want this to happen again so I began to look at internal roles in operations in the area I studied during my time off. These roles are considered more secure.

Might be something worth thinking about if you don't fancy being in sales the rest of your life.

Foxhound38 · 19-02-2015 09:18AM

Specialun wrote: »

Well as title suggest..myself and 40 others , some on contract..no doubt there be nothing on news about it

Not feeling too bad at moment..perhaps it hasnot dawned on me

Do i take a few days off- or drive straight into job hunting..has it happened to you

Cheer me up AH folk

Job market is noticably improving OP (anecdotally people I know who are jobhunting have been getting more job offers and interviews than at any point in the last few years) - take some time off and get your head together, then dive back into it.

_Kaiser_ · 19-02-2015 10:03AM

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote: »

This kind of attitude pisses me off. What makes you think they don't like paying arrears? The money isn't coming out of their pockets so why would they give a toss? Any excuse to have a snipe at PS workers.

He has a point to be fair..

I was laid off in late 2009 and went to sign on in the office in first month as per the card I got through the door. First time being unemployed so I hadn't a clue as to the procedure so I figured I'd go in early on the Monday and get it over with (card said something like "you must present to the local office this week")

Turns up anyway and when I get to the booth, the woman behind the counter tells me that I have to come back on Wednesday instead. I points out that it says on the card to show up between Monday and Friday so here I am. "Those cards are issued from Drogheda (or maybe Dundalk)" she says. "We do it on Wednesday's here" - even though the place was practically empty.

Pointed out to her that I drove 30 mins to get here (was living in Cavan at the time) and running back n forth and paying for parking wasn't exactly cheap in my current circumstances. Made her get her boss, explained it to him and in fairness he signed me on - all while yer one was busy telling other obvious "noobs" that they'd have to feck off and come back as well!

Then there was the local Community Welfare Officer who was even worse when it came to getting rent allowance sorted.

Disgrace of a system.. Made to feel like a scumbag/waster for "daring" to claim from a system you've paid into for years but get very little back from, and it's assumed that you should just know these things like the actual wasters who have no intention of ever working!

Oh and this isn't a pop at public sector workers.. Until that time I'd been one myself for 5 years!

JONJO THE MISER · 19-02-2015 10:09AM

Life is too short for all this working chill out for a while, maybe travel a bit.

PucaMama · 19-02-2015 10:17AM

pmy.murphy wrote: »

Dutch Gold seems to be the most popular brand of beer for scroungers these days. Sure whats the point in working at all when ya can get rewarded more for being a complete waste of space with 7 or 8 illegitimate sprogs. Ireland really is a great country

Sheep Lovers attitude towards life is quite refreshing indeed. Sure at the end of the day, "Ya can bate the wife but ya cant bate the craic"

Basicly OP you should take a leaf out of this guys book

http://img.ffffound.com/static-data/assets/6/e32b88aead4d17322711e0127601c4d0055cde6b_m.jpg

The laid back lifestyle certainly didnt do Onslow any harm(or good for that matter)

Illegitimate children? Are you living in the 80s?

inforfun · 19-02-2015 11:34AM

3 weeks still to go you say?

First develop a cold so you can stay home with an excuse those 3 weeks.
Or use some other excuse. But stay home

**** them

Akrasia · 19-02-2015 11:42AM

Look at springboard.ie

There are a load of courses that you can do for free if you feel like you might like to change career or upskill

I definitely wouldn't rush out and grab 'anything' just for the sake of it. It's easy to get sucked into a soul destroying job and not only waste years of your life, but lose valuable skills and contacts making escape more difficult

pmy.murphy · 19-02-2015 03:05PM

PucaMama wrote: »

Illegitimate children? Are you living in the 80s?

And are you living in cloud cuckoo land or something? If you hadnt noticed previously, well then "technically" bastard children do still exist although the general view on the topic from society has become a lot more relaxed than it once was

Menas · 19-02-2015 03:09PM

pmy.murphy wrote: »

And are you living in cloud cuckoo land or something? If you hadnt noticed previously, well then "technically" bastard children do still exist although the general view on the topic from society has become a lot more relaxed than it once was

Jaysus lads, we are supposed to be cheering up the OP here....

oppenheimer1 · 19-02-2015 03:12PM

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater wrote: »

This kind of attitude pisses me off. What makes you think they don't like paying arrears? The money isn't coming out of their pockets so why would they give a toss? Any excuse to have a snipe at PS workers.

The advice is right though OP, straight in to make an appointment to sign on for your Jobseekers Benefit.

What makes me think it?? I was told it in no uncertain terms when I was trying to sign on a year or so ago. I had left it until all my documents had arrived in the post and then went to make a claim. I was quizzed on why it took so long (two weeks) for me to come in and that he might not process my claim for back payment. When I explained my reasoning for the delay he said he'd "let me away with it this time" (as if he was giving me the money out of his own pocket). I was told that in future if I was making a claim to go in and let them know whether or not I had received my P45.

However maybe it was just a dick that was on that day. One fella in front of me missed his sign on time (he was a first time claimant) by an hour. He wouldn't process him and told him to come back the following week leaving him cashless. I was shocked by his intransigence and lack of compassion. Poor man was almost in tears leaving.

pmy.murphy · 19-02-2015 03:13PM

Trigger Happy wrote: »

Jaysus lads, we are supposed to be cheering up the OP here....

I was responding to some idiot who decided to mount their high horse and call me out on the fact I mentioned the term "illegitimate children" in a previous post originally intended to cheer the OP up. Apparently in the modern world youre even not allowed to use that term even as a joke.

Got made reduntant today-what to do now

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