Economic crisis is starting to hit home...
I chose to be in the water industry because at the end of the day, when the shit hits the fan, everyone still needs to drink water.
Today there was an email sent around that redundancies were being done today. This afternoon around 3pm, there was an impromptu staff meeting where the redundancies were announced. It was performance based, it was based on whether a person's role was no longer required. One girl from groundwater who I occasionally had lunch with has been made redundant. She didn't have much work. Neither does my housemate but she's been sick today, so I'm scared for her (as she is) that if she goes to work tomorrow, she's going to be made redundant. Three other people in sustainable systems have been fired. Oh crap.
My section wasn't affected. In fact, my section is still actively recruiting in order to deliver to deal with the other major projects that we are bidding for.
I'm scared.
Relative to the other sections, I am safe I think. But I haven't made it any secret that I don't plan to stay longer than another year and a half to two years because I want to leave for France to go and work/study. The thing is, there's no point talking to the Section Manager and seeing what my position is because legally/realistically, she probably won't be able to say.
For now, I don't have to worry. I am worried for my housemate though. She hasn't had work. We can't figure out why they fired the other grad in her groundwater section but we just won't know yet. It was only last week that we were told that in general, as a business, there wasn't anything to worry about.
The rhetoric doesn't match up with the company's actions right now.
I'm scared.
Today there was an email sent around that redundancies were being done today. This afternoon around 3pm, there was an impromptu staff meeting where the redundancies were announced. It was performance based, it was based on whether a person's role was no longer required. One girl from groundwater who I occasionally had lunch with has been made redundant. She didn't have much work. Neither does my housemate but she's been sick today, so I'm scared for her (as she is) that if she goes to work tomorrow, she's going to be made redundant. Three other people in sustainable systems have been fired. Oh crap.
My section wasn't affected. In fact, my section is still actively recruiting in order to deliver to deal with the other major projects that we are bidding for.
I'm scared.
Relative to the other sections, I am safe I think. But I haven't made it any secret that I don't plan to stay longer than another year and a half to two years because I want to leave for France to go and work/study. The thing is, there's no point talking to the Section Manager and seeing what my position is because legally/realistically, she probably won't be able to say.
For now, I don't have to worry. I am worried for my housemate though. She hasn't had work. We can't figure out why they fired the other grad in her groundwater section but we just won't know yet. It was only last week that we were told that in general, as a business, there wasn't anything to worry about.
The rhetoric doesn't match up with the company's actions right now.
I'm scared.