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Work wise it's redundancy I fear the most. Whatever happens, whatever dead-end i end up with, if I can pay my mortgage at the end of the month, then that's a basis I can live my life.
Work's been under a TUPE situation due to loosing the contract I work on for over a year now. The contractual transfer date was September 2012. Current estimate is July 2013, noone would be surprised if it goes a full year overdue to September 2013. Morally the people I'm due to work for are fairly bloody dubious, but to be fair, it came out last year that my company were the people who were contracted to transport prisoners to Guantanamo Bay, so I'm not on dry land as it is.
I work in a team of four. 2 of us are based in the office I work at, one in an office in Luton and one is a home worker. We had a meeting with the new provider in January to find out what our new role is their organisation. We found out the four of us had been aligned to two jobs near Reading. In all honestly I was relieved. The fact they invited us all to one meeting meant that we were getting the same fate, and it was either a shared location or redundancy, and after looking it up, if became apparent that the commute would "only" be two hours each way. Most of all I was relieved, because there are always chances to get a better job, and if your safety net is still being able to pay the mortgage at the end of the month..... well then that's something you can work from, and when I was given the location I expected a worse commute, *and* even if i end up having to compete with 3 other people for 2 roles, then there's no doubt in my mind that I'm one of the ones who would win (again).
Today a totally separate team, who were aligned to jobs in London (albeit west London), just had their job offers withdrawn. We're told this is a one off. The only offer they've got on the table is "voluntary" redundancy (I wouldn't take it in their shoes, make the fuckers work to get rid of you).
All in all, right here right now, I'm a little scared. And by "a little scared" I mean "bloody terrified"
Work's been under a TUPE situation due to loosing the contract I work on for over a year now. The contractual transfer date was September 2012. Current estimate is July 2013, noone would be surprised if it goes a full year overdue to September 2013. Morally the people I'm due to work for are fairly bloody dubious, but to be fair, it came out last year that my company were the people who were contracted to transport prisoners to Guantanamo Bay, so I'm not on dry land as it is.
I work in a team of four. 2 of us are based in the office I work at, one in an office in Luton and one is a home worker. We had a meeting with the new provider in January to find out what our new role is their organisation. We found out the four of us had been aligned to two jobs near Reading. In all honestly I was relieved. The fact they invited us all to one meeting meant that we were getting the same fate, and it was either a shared location or redundancy, and after looking it up, if became apparent that the commute would "only" be two hours each way. Most of all I was relieved, because there are always chances to get a better job, and if your safety net is still being able to pay the mortgage at the end of the month..... well then that's something you can work from, and when I was given the location I expected a worse commute, *and* even if i end up having to compete with 3 other people for 2 roles, then there's no doubt in my mind that I'm one of the ones who would win (again).
Today a totally separate team, who were aligned to jobs in London (albeit west London), just had their job offers withdrawn. We're told this is a one off. The only offer they've got on the table is "voluntary" redundancy (I wouldn't take it in their shoes, make the fuckers work to get rid of you).
All in all, right here right now, I'm a little scared. And by "a little scared" I mean "bloody terrified"