Once again my delightful employers have decided that the roulette wheel of future employment shall be spun. Yes, we're downsizing ( Read more... )

We had our second consultation meeting on Thursday, and in this meeting we have been told that our consultation period is being extended. So we were due to find out this coming week whether we'd be getting made redundant or not, now we'll find out in another month or so ( Read more... )

Though I went back to work on Thursday and Friday, and refused to talk on the phone. I suspect it was a good thing and that if I'd have taken calls I'd have ended up even worse ( Read more... )

We have more news which is trickling slowly through the company. So far we have about 25 people that we know of, out of a workforce of ~250 (I think), so a 10% cut is about right ( Read more... )

As you probably know if you've been reading my automatically posted Tweets, the past week has been an interesting one in work-terms.  Friday morning at 10-ish the whole floor was pulled into the break room and told that the company would be shedding ~35 jobs in the support, sales, IT and customer service departments worldwide.  We were told to go ( Read more... )