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.