[Solidsnape]

My work have announced upto 51 redundancies out of a pool of around 250.
A 30 day consultation period then you're out the door.
Now, I've only been there 4 months. So I have to assume I'm gone.
I'm not too happy about it.
Thing is, the company has been all over the local press for being top rate and for local investment and all that. Here's one example http://www.bbc.co.uk...d-tyne-34130225
One of the reasons I went there in the first place.
And yet they've paid off 3 times since moving into this renowned hi-tech facility, this time last year.
It's silly how egotistical companies can be. Here's my place sitting on a scant order book, haemorrhaging money left right and centre and yet they're still recruiting and paying unlimited overtime. Promising the world to customers too. Who are happy, with the plunging oil prices, to ask for the whole world on a golden fuckin plate.
Yesterday.
If you're not one of the long term clique, then OT has been cut now, and nightshift has been culled, but I can't help thinking if they'd put everyone on 37 hours earlier in the year, then their problems now, wouldn't be as severe.
But that would mean losing face in front of local competition. So they have a front in which numbers are displayed to portray an aura of prosperity. It's all bullshit.
Us lads tell our mates, who work in other companies locally, what's really happening. So everybody knows what's going on anyway. It's a joke. Playing with people's jobs for a Plc propaganda game.

I'm looking overseas and down south for work right now, because us stupid ass northerners have no engineering industry at all without the oil and gas market.
I hate to think what Aberdeen is like at the minute.

/rant.

I need to find something in the next 2 weeks really.....

[worry]

You get super English when you rant.

[DeadHedge]

Alan Rickman died

[Maark Abbott]

worry, on 14 January 2016 - 07:04 AM, said:

You get super English when you rant.

Heigh. Lassen. Ah din't knee wha yer racken yer knoa 'boat Anglesh, laddeh. Berres roan'.

[Solidsnape]

DeadHedge, on 14 January 2016 - 04:27 PM, said:

Alan Rickman died

RIP Snape.

[Gust Hubb]

Gorey details of divorce on the near horizon. Not sure how people survive this.

[QuickTidal]

Gust Hubb, on 14 January 2016 - 06:23 PM, said:

Gorey details of divorce on the near horizon. Not sure how people survive this.

Not sure if it will or does help at all. But you are more than welcome to continue speaking on it here or in the thread you made about it, and I'm sure we can help support and get you through this man. Rough times call for supportive groups, and though most of us aren't around you IRL, I'll certainly do my best to help where I can.

[TheRetiredBridgeburner]

worry, on 14 January 2016 - 07:04 AM, said:

You get super English when you rant.

It's a super power. All English have it!

The news about Alan Rickman. Superb actor and seemed a genuinely lovely person.

[worry]

QuickTidal, on 14 January 2016 - 06:46 PM, said:

Gust Hubb, on 14 January 2016 - 06:23 PM, said:

Gorey details of divorce on the near horizon. Not sure how people survive this.

Not sure if it will or does help at all. But you are more than welcome to continue speaking on it here or in the thread you made about it, and I'm sure we can help support and get you through this man. Rough times call for supportive groups, and though most of us aren't around you IRL, I'll certainly do my best to help where I can.

Absolutely, GH. Everyone's here for you. I personally vow to make graceless, uncomfortable jokes about it for as long as you need, buddy.

[Morgoth]

Gust Hubb, on 14 January 2016 - 06:23 PM, said:

Gorey details of divorce on the near horizon. Not sure how people survive this.

All divorces are different yet all divorces are awfull. You'll have a lot more time to play fallout though. The first thing I did was to buy a new tv, surround system and a PS4.

[Tiste Simeon]

Solidsnape, on 14 January 2016 - 05:16 AM, said:

My work have announced upto 51 redundancies out of a pool of around 250.
A 30 day consultation period then you're out the door.
Now, I've only been there 4 months. So I have to assume I'm gone.
I'm not too happy about it.
Thing is, the company has been all over the local press for being top rate and for local investment and all that. Here's one example http://www.bbc.co.uk...d-tyne-34130225
One of the reasons I went there in the first place.
And yet they've paid off 3 times since moving into this renowned hi-tech facility, this time last year.
It's silly how egotistical companies can be. Here's my place sitting on a scant order book, haemorrhaging money left right and centre and yet they're still recruiting and paying unlimited overtime. Promising the world to customers too. Who are happy, with the plunging oil prices, to ask for the whole world on a golden fuckin plate.
Yesterday.
If you're not one of the long term clique, then OT has been cut now, and nightshift has been culled, but I can't help thinking if they'd put everyone on 37 hours earlier in the year, then their problems now, wouldn't be as severe.
But that would mean losing face in front of local competition. So they have a front in which numbers are displayed to portray an aura of prosperity. It's all bullshit.
Us lads tell our mates, who work in other companies locally, what's really happening. So everybody knows what's going on anyway. It's a joke. Playing with people's jobs for a Plc propaganda game.

I'm looking overseas and down south for work right now, because us stupid ass northerners have no engineering industry at all without the oil and gas market.
I hate to think what Aberdeen is like at the minute.

/rant.

I need to find something in the next 2 weeks really.....

If tanks and stuff are your thing, Surrey is probably the place to go (Cobham, BAE etc.) unfortunately, the price comparison for housing between there and Newcastle is massive! (I have a brother in both Newcastle and Surrey...)

[Maark Abbott]

Tiste Simeon, on 15 January 2016 - 08:10 AM, said:

Solidsnape, on 14 January 2016 - 05:16 AM, said:

My work have announced upto 51 redundancies out of a pool of around 250.
A 30 day consultation period then you're out the door.
Now, I've only been there 4 months. So I have to assume I'm gone.
I'm not too happy about it.
Thing is, the company has been all over the local press for being top rate and for local investment and all that. Here's one example http://www.bbc.co.uk...d-tyne-34130225
One of the reasons I went there in the first place.
And yet they've paid off 3 times since moving into this renowned hi-tech facility, this time last year.
It's silly how egotistical companies can be. Here's my place sitting on a scant order book, haemorrhaging money left right and centre and yet they're still recruiting and paying unlimited overtime. Promising the world to customers too. Who are happy, with the plunging oil prices, to ask for the whole world on a golden fuckin plate.
Yesterday.
If you're not one of the long term clique, then OT has been cut now, and nightshift has been culled, but I can't help thinking if they'd put everyone on 37 hours earlier in the year, then their problems now, wouldn't be as severe.
But that would mean losing face in front of local competition. So they have a front in which numbers are displayed to portray an aura of prosperity. It's all bullshit.
Us lads tell our mates, who work in other companies locally, what's really happening. So everybody knows what's going on anyway. It's a joke. Playing with people's jobs for a Plc propaganda game.

I'm looking overseas and down south for work right now, because us stupid ass northerners have no engineering industry at all without the oil and gas market.
I hate to think what Aberdeen is like at the minute.

/rant.

I need to find something in the next 2 weeks really.....

If tanks and stuff are your thing, Surrey is probably the place to go (Cobham, BAE etc.) unfortunately, the price comparison for housing between there and Newcastle is massive! (I have a brother in both Newcastle and Surrey...)

There's also Bovington in Dorset. Demand for mechanical engineers is pretty high considering they have both the Tank Museum and the army camp with tank range down there.

[Aptorian]

Gust Hubb, on 14 January 2016 - 06:23 PM, said:

Gorey details of divorce on the near horizon. Not sure how people survive this.

What you do is that you take all those feelings and you strangle them and push them down and lock them away.

I use the Bill Burr method to get through life:

[Abyss]

Gust Hubb, on 14 January 2016 - 06:23 PM, said:

Gorey details of divorce on the near horizon. Not sure how people survive this.

Focus on your kids and hang in there. The only certainty is that no matter how awful you feel, there will be a day weeks from now where you feel marginally less shit

...and then you remember what's going on and feel worse, but only for a short time before you feel less worse, and then better, and then better still. And then probably worse but for even less time and so on until the anger hurt etc are down to a dull ache.
It happens, it just takes as long as it takes and you have to keep that in head.

[Gnaw]

Gust Hubb, on 14 January 2016 - 06:23 PM, said:

Gorey details of divorce on the near horizon. Not sure how people survive this.

I've managed to stay out of the divorce cycle. Mostly by realizing that the single largest cause of divorce is marriage.

One piece of advice from observation of others: don't use the kids as a weapon and that starts by refusing to do the parking lots exchanges.

On your weekends with them, always make them do their homework before taking them back. Using a visit to Baskin-Robbins for triple fudge sundaes on the way home is a great incentive for them. Their sugar high will definitely make your ride home so much more enjoyable.

I learned that one from a friend who literally was in the "wife and girlfriend in the delivery ward the same night" situation.

[Traveller]

I'm at work. It's 1.20am and we have another c section to do.

And Thunderball is on tv in the coffee room, and the repetitive, intrusive and overblown film score is bugging me - it really is awful.

So I'll be up all night now I guess, and I've got the kids to entertain tomorrow as my wife is still recovering from her sudden, random bout of pneumonia.

[Mezla PigDog]

Traveller, on 16 January 2016 - 01:23 AM, said:

I'm at work. It's 1.20am and we have another c section to do.

And Thunderball is on tv in the coffee room, and the repetitive, intrusive and overblown film score is bugging me - it really is awful.

So I'll be up all night now I guess, and I've got the kids to entertain tomorrow as my wife is still recovering from her sudden, random bout of pneumonia.

Make good use of that always dependable surrogate parent - tv!

[Traveller]

Mezla PigDog, on 16 January 2016 - 08:10 AM, said:

Traveller, on 16 January 2016 - 01:23 AM, said:

I'm at work. It's 1.20am and we have another c section to do.

And Thunderball is on tv in the coffee room, and the repetitive, intrusive and overblown film score is bugging me - it really is awful.

So I'll be up all night now I guess, and I've got the kids to entertain tomorrow as my wife is still recovering from her sudden, random bout of pneumonia.

Make good use of that always dependable surrogate parent - tv!

That only works for so long though! I'm home now and they're currently busy playing a camping game in their circus tent.

Didn't do that section in the end, had a tear repair to do instead. Our maternity unit has rather stupidly spent a ton of cash on a water birth suite, which is already being nicknamed 'the perineal memorial unit' due to all the tears we now get coming to theatre, including a few grade 4's.

(New birthing pools may look very nice with their led lights and soft mp3 music playing, but nobody actually thought about how difficult it would be to extract a large, wet, bleeding, possibly unconcious pregnant woman out of a high-sided tub.)

[Mezla PigDog]

Traveller, on 16 January 2016 - 09:05 AM, said:

Mezla PigDog, on 16 January 2016 - 08:10 AM, said:

Make good use of that always dependable surrogate parent - tv!

That only works for so long though!

WHAT?! I've made a serious miscalculation.

[Aptorian]

Don't worry, Mezla. I was raised by the DJ Cat Show, a giant, yellow retarded bear with a red tie and MTV. And look how great I turned out.