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Seriously?!?!?!
Jul. 14th, 2008 08:19 pmhttp://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0714/davy.html
So looks like I might be out of a job. There was no warning bar a quick word from our boss that bad news was on the way before we all had to go into a meeting with the CEO. 4 jobs from our section have to go. Hopefully we will know who stays and who goes by the start of next week. I use hopefully in a sarcastic way. There was just so much tension in the office afterwards. Eugh. I am seriously fucked if I'm made redundant. Bascially for every year of service you are entitled to six weeks pay. Seeing as I've been there less then a year I get... oooh a whole 5 weeks pay or thereabouts. That combined with me having to work a back month when I started gives me two monthes to find a job before I have to start breaking into my meager savings. Fun times. They stressed that if people wanted to do voluntary redundancies they would take take on board and I did hear some of the old timers discussing it in a rather excited way. Some of them have been there for 20 years which is roughly two years redundancy which lets face it is pretty sweet. They also told us for the people who are made redundant they will do everything they can to help us find new jobs and also get professional cv type people in to make our cv look as good as possible.
I'm pissed that it has come to this but not angry. We all knew the northern rock and sub prime mortgage credit crunch would hit us sooner or later and even the politicans are starting to mutter about Ireland being on the brink of recession. I don't regret leaving my old job though I will be very sad if it turns out I am one of the ones who have to go. August 15th are when the redundancies come into effect.
Andria until I know wheter my job is safe I can't commit to crowfest. I am so sorry, I was really looking forward to meeting you, your family and all the other siters :(
So looks like I might be out of a job. There was no warning bar a quick word from our boss that bad news was on the way before we all had to go into a meeting with the CEO. 4 jobs from our section have to go. Hopefully we will know who stays and who goes by the start of next week. I use hopefully in a sarcastic way. There was just so much tension in the office afterwards. Eugh. I am seriously fucked if I'm made redundant. Bascially for every year of service you are entitled to six weeks pay. Seeing as I've been there less then a year I get... oooh a whole 5 weeks pay or thereabouts. That combined with me having to work a back month when I started gives me two monthes to find a job before I have to start breaking into my meager savings. Fun times. They stressed that if people wanted to do voluntary redundancies they would take take on board and I did hear some of the old timers discussing it in a rather excited way. Some of them have been there for 20 years which is roughly two years redundancy which lets face it is pretty sweet. They also told us for the people who are made redundant they will do everything they can to help us find new jobs and also get professional cv type people in to make our cv look as good as possible.
I'm pissed that it has come to this but not angry. We all knew the northern rock and sub prime mortgage credit crunch would hit us sooner or later and even the politicans are starting to mutter about Ireland being on the brink of recession. I don't regret leaving my old job though I will be very sad if it turns out I am one of the ones who have to go. August 15th are when the redundancies come into effect.
Andria until I know wheter my job is safe I can't commit to crowfest. I am so sorry, I was really looking forward to meeting you, your family and all the other siters :(
