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James, thats just disgusting behaviour by them and shows no respect whatsoever. Youre right insofar that it must be the time of year because several people I know have been chucked out of their jobs in the last couple of months.
Why dont you all show the new lot how to do it wrong - be very nice about it though :wink:
Theres something better around the corner so good luck :)
most people get contracts renewed after christmas and get there performance looked at so yep it is the right time of year :)
Natural Law of Magic: everything you do will come back to you thricefold.
Do a good job training your replacements and leave that company with the knowledge and satisfaction that they just lost a prime worker. Take that confidence with you to job applications. It matters a great deal how you feel about it yourself when trying to sell your services. (Thats basic psychology by the way. Translated to magic its headology.) I know its tough (been there, done that, even have a t-shirt) but the best way to cope with it is make the best of it. Dont let the bloody idiots grind you down !!
Bugger... Ive just been calculating: in the past 12 years since graduating I had only two longer-term jobs (one for a year, one for 3 years), been unemployed for 17 months and fired because of illness/now on welfare since March 2001. That makes 5,5 years unemployed, 4 years with contract and 3 years through agencies. Yeuy.
right is official now, i am now officially redundant as of friday 1.30pm. its been a boring few weeks not really had a lot to do at work so the time has really dragged.
karoline i hope you have plenty of flying saucers with you at portsmouth i need consoling :)
oh and babeth you were right about it comming back to them thrice fold, it turns out the group just got bought out by a british firm known for asset stripping.
p.s. no i dont sleep :) in all honisty ive not had a lot of sleep all week i just keep waking up. yes i know thats the idea to wake up again but i like to have a few hours in between. :)
(Message edited by thorak nemesis on October 02, 2005)
Too many smileys James - I know you feel like s**t!
You can have as many FSs as you like from me :)
Congratulation James on your redundancy! *giggles* youre signing on behind me! *sobs*
Still outta work, still looking, still wasting fone calls, still wasting papers and stamps, still being pestered by the people at the job centre, saying, if youd applied for so many jobs, why hadnt they contacted ya? like if they had, i would still be here doing nothing? sheesh!
I need a job, my hair is getting thin and grey, im getting old, and im feeling absolutely useless!
(okay, im done now, just bloody signed on and still fed up!)
chin up old boy :) im sorted now gone up in the world gone from smt opperative to test technition for a speed controller company :).
something will turn up for you just keep hunting. i gave up with signing up to job agencies tho, ive been registered with one for 7-8 years and they have contacted me 3 times in that time and ammusingly they phoned me after i started at the new job, thats after telling them 8 months ago i was being made redundant.
any way good luck keep hunting local papers are quite good for jobs usually
Audrey, one way to shut the idiots at the job centre up is keeping a draft or copy of all your postulation letters, together with the details from the companies you wrote to AND their rejections, in a nice scrap-book and thumping it upon their desks the moment they start whining again.
I had a colleague once whose husband had done just that, his scrap-book was quite impressive... 3 kilos of letters and ads landing on a job centre whiners desk makes a nice hard THUD sound.
I once had a job centre lady close to sobbing myself (and it still warms my heart whenever I think of it), when I challenged her to find a job for me and she couldnt because each and every one of my excuses why I couldnt get hired turned out to be true. The massive amount of rejections from potential employers shocked her because she used to believe that anyone could find a job if you just would do the effort of looking for one. Now she knows better, and she is a lot less arrogant.
She currrently has 9 Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (or ME) patients in her file and she knows it will be a cold day in hell when she finds a job for even one of us.
(Message edited by Babeth on October 15, 2005)
If there are so many reasons you cant go for a job, wouldnt it be better to sign on sick rather than as looking for full time work?
Frank, Babeth is on disability.
But she rather would work inside het possibilities.
Now she feels a bit like a parasite sucking on the society.