So last friday I got my matching orders. My office hasn't made money for 2 months and they needed to chuck out the sandbags and quick.. so i was one of them sandbags. But its quite crazy, I am 30.. and in my life I have been made redundant Twice. The got into deep water as they decided to focus on new business and not focus on the accounts they had that was low in margin but good business none the less. They wanted to chase that golden goose, to say. That same business model was used on another company, whom has folded and had to shut offices... now my X company is shizter'ing bricks at the moment. I wrote an email to the director in November warning him, that we need to work on retaining the current business and stop focusing on new business that will distract us from what we have.. which was making money. The targets and KPIs set did that exact thing I warned him against, it distracted us from the core business that was making good solid money. He told me to shut my mouth and do what I am told, again in January the figures where nose diving, so I warned the director again, that new business was having an adverse effect on our current GOOD business, he this time put me on a warning, not for what i had said... nope for turning up an hour late that morning of the horrible snow we had a few months back. I have ran a business started it with £500 and sold it on for £20K after 6months, I couldn't get the balance of work and life right so it was killing me.. plus the boom made it easy as well to sell on, too many people with too much money.. But I could see the problem.. existing business that had money attached to it wasn't good enough and new business was the focus as they thought this would create more work. it didn't.. no body wanted to spend the money on recruiting people as it was cut backs after cut backs with most companies. where we had the business needed the time we spent on new business to find the right candidates.. but it seem like this director thought he was right.. and now we look at the figures, the companies that stuck to the existing clients and ditched pointless new business are floating very well..

At the moment i am cancelling bills and getting ready to relocate to Birmingham to live with the in-laws. Why? cause my misses working for a big bank, her jobs on the line too.. so we will be penniless and homeless in the next few weeks.

Time to move on.

Gods, Mark, that's horrible. Maybe someone on list would be able to help somehow. Motty owns his own business and it seems to be doing well. Think he's out of town again tho, hasn't been around in a few days. When he gets back and sees this perhaps he'd have a suggestion or two for you.
Fingers crossed and candle lit for you,
Tuppence

Hi again Mark.

That is awful news. Being made redundant is a confidence-killer but more than once and it starts to eat away at the personal reserves.

I suppose many people in these days of recession will be feeling the exact same pain as you are feeling just now but knowing the fact will not help your individual situation.

You stated how you had tried to guide your employers to look after the "good" business rather tnan going for expansion and how they eventually found that your "conscience-nipping" advice was too much for them. This example strikes me as a curious analogy with the "whistleblowers" in the banking systems that got laid off for EXACTLY the same kind of advice. It would appear that no senior manager likes to be told that they are getting it wrong even if that advice is correct at the time.

The bank "whistleblowers" were proved to be very right in the long run but that did not stop them from being laid off for having the temerity to say what the reckless bosses were nervously thinking about anyway.

I do hope that you get a good and enjoyable job very soon as it is no fun for ANY person to be unemployed for any length of time.

Best of British luck to you and be sure that the best wishes of all of us here on ROB2 go with you.

Oh I am so sorry to hear that Mark. I have been made redundant twice in my life and I finally had to retrain as a teacher and sit on part-time supply with an agency for two years before I finally got a decent post.

Now I have a good job and even if it is a stressful one it gives me lots of satisfaction.

Maybe you are going to have to retrain too !

Best of luck to you anyway !

Thanks guys for the luck. It seems I have had an interview on friday and hopefully a second interview up in Lichfield outside brum. If all goes well I maybe running an office of my own. Maybe this redundancy is fate?

Yes Mark, they say that when a door shuts....another one slams in your face !

Kidding aside, I am a great believer in fate as I think that if you have good heart and a bit of luck fate can often deal out some very nice hands.

This might be the turning point of your whole life.

Go for it and you never know what might happen.

So sorry to hear this Mark.


Look .. when one door closes.. another opens wide for you.


Look at your skills and even though things are tight - you must play on them to strike out your destiny.


Oh.. I am the incurable optimist perhaps. Runs in my genes. But use this bad news to assess the positive. Even in a recession .. we can .. as we are all paddling the same sinking canoe here . if you know what I am trying to say here.

Are high-level medical consultants in the same boat as the rest of us ?

I don't think so !

papa_umau wrote:Are high-level medical consultants in the same boat as the rest of us ?

I don't think so !

Perhaps I will be safe and able to put food on table at least.


Hey . given current economic mess? I really do not think any one of us can take things for granted really.

Still looking for a job guys!!!

Don't lose heart Mark as in these times new jobs don't come easy to anybody. Play to your strengths and you never know what might pop up.

I was looking through the posts above and came across that point about your old company spending valuable time on chasing new work while not looking after the bread-and-butter clients and I thought that that is probably the greatest flaw in business today.

It doesn't matter where you look you find companies striving for ever more and more expansion rather than simply working hard at what worked well in the past. This strong desire for more and more growth is EXACTLY what happened in the banking sector when the people at the top started to get over-influenced by the crazy bonus-culture. Now they are paying for their recklessness.

Of course I do understand that no company can stand still, but growth must be attained at a rate that is supportable in the long term.

I will make a posting today of an amusing analogy that is going around the internet because it shows this trend in a funny way.

Oh how true it is !

The title is: The banking debachle explained in easy terms ! and you will find it in "Entry Forum and notes".

thanks paps.. i am trying my best to keep an open mind.. week 6/7 and i am feeling unwanted... =(

AWWWWWWWWW HUGS
Love,
Auntie Tuppence

Still out of work!!

Mark . do not give up hope.


Look at your skills. If you can . set up your own business . offering . say budget IT. .. book keeping .. or make a new start.

Analyse your interpersonal skills . Think and read the adverts carefully. tailor cv to suit and think if invited to interview.

Keep in mind tht this adverse turn in fortunes is not your fault and does not reflect on your abilities in any shape or form. KKEP POSITIVE!


I know some think I have the "cushy number" . but hell .. I worked hard to get here.. and even so . I am still subject to NHS budgets I risk losing skilled nursing staff. UK trained. I will be required to waste cash on agency fees. giving me foreign nurses who are competent but who cannot provide because of linguistic problems. Yhey get paid the minimum wage..of £5.73 per hour to £6.20 per hour. Cheap labour then :popcorn:

OK . so because of my expertise gained by hard slog and exams .. I may be fairly certain to err 90% certainty that I keep my job here as a senior neurologist

..and some may even think I have no idea of how others feel or suffer because of the sheer incompetence of rogue bankers and a govermments who based an economy on unrealistcally soaring housing prices and easy credit...



but I do understand.. and I am fully on the side of those who suffer because of "something very rude which rhymes with" bankers posing as bankers.


I can omly advise Mark to keep on trying. I can only wish anyone else in his situation all my best thoughts and prayers that all work out well for them/

Remember in the 80s . jobs were scant. But fortunes changed.. ebbed. then flowed again. Believe in that Flow.. BUT look at skills to offer and play on them whist waiting to jump in the waves of FLOW.

I hope to help .. and am sorry if my position as earned by my own hard book bashing as a young girl . makes me seem arrogant and smug to some. I do not mean or intend to sound as smug bitch. I am none of these. I understand sincerely and would love to wave a magic wnd to cure all this.. but magic and reality mix like oil and water