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Aladinsaneuk · #1 Post by **Aladinsaneuk** » Mon May 16, 2011 5:50 am

If i get a little waspy:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-1 ... -says.html

yep - that is about the size of it and yep, thats the company I work for.

I do not know if the home I manage is one of the ones scheduled for sale - I fear it may be as I have turned it around to being profitable.

Stock exchange on thursday - I suspect that the company will be suspended - and i am hearing strong rumours of administration by the end of the week

if it all goes tits up - I will return to nursing full time - and am fairly certain I would get a job fairly swiftly

BUT - some people are finding it a little stress full... so bear with me if i get arsey!

Falcopops · #2 Post by **Falcopops** » Mon May 16, 2011 6:08 am

Arse!

Fingers crossed for you.

Samray · #3 Post by **Samray** » Mon May 16, 2011 6:36 am

That's shite.

Hope things work out for you personally and your staff.

D-Rider · #4 Post by **D-Rider** » Mon May 16, 2011 7:46 am

...... so that's where all the money has gone ..... syphoned off into Falco upgrades .....

Seriously - hope it works out for you, staff and "inmates"

HowardQ · #5 Post by **HowardQ** » Mon May 16, 2011 12:36 pm

Sad to hear about your situation Pete, I can only empathise as my family are all in the same boat. We all work for something between a Local Authority and something newer!
Local Autority (Me), a Passenger Transport Authority, (my wife Terri) and my daughter Jo who works for a group who are running youth sites that used to be part of Sheffield Council, but now run as a "Charity" (??).
There will be ongoing cuts of 25% or more in all three areas, and still nobody has a ferkin clue about who will and won't have a job during this extended period of time. Some of the "Luckier" (????) ones have already gone, but the others remaining in all three areas are just waiting for the next axe to fall on a repeat basis over three years or more.
Ain't it great !!
Still I always have my "gold plated pension" to fall back on, really it is covered in brown shite rather than gold plate and the government now want us to pay much more for much less than we signed up for years earlier.
But like us you don't need to worry as the Big Society will look after us all when we are on the scapheap.
Ain't life shite, when you have spent most of it working for the government for much less than a private concern, because you had "some" job security.
Just remember it was the BWANKERS the F***ed up in the first place, and that's why Health and Local Authority staff etc., etc., now have to pay for this with their jobs whilst the BWANKERS carry on with bonusses, (cos they deserve them, otherwise they may leave the country).

Sorry for being arsey like you, it's just that we all seem to get this way when stressed like this don't we! Silly us.

The dark side never looked darker!

Nooj · #6 Post by **Nooj** » Mon May 16, 2011 2:16 pm

Tain't good is it. I'm still scraping along the bottom financially after my redundancy 14 months ago, Debz is now £500 a month worse off thanks to the last budget, yet still these cunts running the investment banks and the stock exchanges get their millions every year for fucking everyone else's lives up.

Oil companies and utility companies post record profits year after year, as do the big shops like Tesco. And it's no wonder, I can barely afford to put diesel in my van to go to work it's so expensive, gas prices are set to rise again by something like 12% this winter and working the tills in big shops is one of the lowest paying jobs you can get. It's no wonder we're all running out of money.

Struggling for money is not limited to the poor any more, the middle class is taking little steps nearer and nearer to the breadline every day. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Jobs are cut, homes are repossessed, old people face a slow winter death form hypothermia all because 8% of the world's population, a handful of big businesses, want all the money for themselves.

Forget the war on terror (purely fabricated by big business anyway) we need a war on greed.

MartDude · #7 Post by **MartDude** » Mon May 16, 2011 4:13 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h45WnW0ASFY

Nooj · #8 Post by **Nooj** » Mon May 16, 2011 4:20 pm

You stay away from my bacon torpedo!

MartDude · #9 Post by **MartDude** » Mon May 16, 2011 4:22 pm

I have access to a well-equipped joinery workshop, and a number of metal-bashing friends.

Shouldn't be too hard to knock up a few guillotines.

And pikes on which to display the heads.

Falcorob · #10 Post by **Falcorob** » Mon May 16, 2011 7:03 pm

I got made redundant 2 years ago and now deliver furniture for a living. And the bottom is dropping out of that now too so I may be on the scrapheap again soon.

Sympathies mate. The only good thing is it may make a few people change their careers completely and actually find something that they enjoy doing for a change. Even if it is for a little less money.

Nooj · #11 Post by **Nooj** » Mon May 16, 2011 8:01 pm

That's the thing, all these new jobs seem to end up being 'for a little less money', but all the things we need to live (not counting luxury items) keep on going up and up in cost.

Willopotomas · #12 Post by **Willopotomas** » Mon May 16, 2011 9:45 pm

My Mrs works for them too.. Wonder if her place is up for the chop?

Not good dude.. Hope all works out well..

randomsquid · #13 Post by **randomsquid** » Mon May 16, 2011 10:21 pm

That's crap. But at least you have a worthwhile fall back position. I'd end up having to do something even more crap than they make me do now.

DavShill · #14 Post by **DavShill** » Tue May 17, 2011 3:06 pm

Hope it works out Pete. I know how it feels. Like many on here I've been made redundant once and Jules has been made redundant 3 times (twice from the same organisation - the Training & Enterprise Council - ironic or what!). She now work for the Hull PCT so will be redundant once it winds down but it's an almighty mess at the moment.
Picking up on Nooj'spoint - My own job is risk becuase of the almighty fuck up in the investment and wholesale banking divisions - the senior execs and traders continue to feed at the trough while hard working honest ordinary people in Retail Banking are in fear of losing their jobs as support functions and braches close.

#15 Post by **Kwackerz** » Tue May 17, 2011 4:42 pm

I fear it may be as I have turned it around to being profitable

Shot yourself in the foot there. See, this is why you dont give guns to Nursing staff. At least you can fix yourself though!

I reckon they'd go the other way and keep your place as it IS profitable. They need dosh but dont want to kill themselves off in the process.

The dark side isnt as happy a place to be nowadays so it seems, my nursey friend who used to do Neuro found she has had to head back to the NHS as her firm were cutting staff back, demanding more from those left all to save money.

Im sure you'll be fine whichever way youre forced to turn. Youre quite the swiss army knife from what i can tell. Apart from Children's entertainer. That pink cap is scary. Almost boy george-esque