CVs - again.

To be fair, you'd have been buggered either way.

 

Around 4,500 council workers in Edinburgh are to be sent notices of
dismissal after refusing to sign up to new terms and conditions [1].


Interesting advice from their union, I'd like to know what purpose this
serves ?
The trades unions advised their members not to sign up at the voluntary
sign up stage but to ensure they sign up at the notice of dismissal and
re-engagement stage.

[1]
http://tinyurl.com/396gq3j
http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/scotland/4500-city-council-workers-to.6398945.jp

 

good point.

 

steve robinson escribió:

They laid off most of the staff and only kept on key people. This was a
takeover of a growing British family firm by a billion dollar American
outfit, who just wanted one part of our technology - which just happened to
be my bit.

 

Thomas escribió:

Participle of "Jubilar" from the latin "iubilÄre", meaning to complete 50
years service. In Spanish it means retire someone from their work after the
normal length of working life. "Jubilarse" pronominal version "to retire".

From "jubileo" (latin iubilaeus - hebrew Å¡Ä•nat hayyÅbÄ“l) it also means
something about religion (again, to do with 50 years). Is Des reading this?
He might know.

OED
Jubilant - "Making a joyful noise, rejoicing with songs and acclamations;
now generally, Making demonstrations of joy, exultingly glad."

Am I boring anyone?

 

A rather left wing labour council at that IIRC?

Forgetting that corner stone of Management. Motivate your workforce, they
are your key asset.

 

http://www.gamesprays.com/images/icons/beatings_icon186.jpg

 

Curiously my colleagues bought me that very T-Shirt last year

 

Only once - I've lost count. Still the next delightful reorganisation
will possibly see me out on my ear but we shall see. Still nearly 25
years service isn't bad.

 

Sorry Nigel but it does. I know the private sector is far more brutal
but don't believe all the garbage in the papers.

I've had it happen 6 or 7 times now. OK I've survived the process but
I'm not sure how many more times I can do so.

 

1) The things I enjoy don't pay.

2) If by some chance I find something I enjoy and make it pay, I'd
probably stop enjoying it.

 

Oh yes. Yes. Yes indeed.

 

For those of us who aspire to more than writing about sales of tinned
tomatoes, it's harder to live the dream.

 

Slight change of plan: I've been invited to apply for my manager's
job.

Puts a different slant on things.

<ponders>

 

what, the pointy hair?

 

Yep.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Paul Corfield

Forgive me. I live in the world where I'm one bad sales quarter away
from the dole queue (and have done for many years).

And anyone who works in the private sector who believe differently is
deluded.

I also have three family members who work in the public sector and tell
me how hard it is, and how they feel threatened. They've all been
"redeployed" several times. Oddly, they've never actually been made
redundant.

Which is probably just as well, because with the way they talk about
their day-to-day work, they're completely unemployable.

 

On 21/07/2010 01:54, Wicked Uncle Nigel wrote:
snip

I feel very sorry for people who are in a job just to pay the bills.
Okay, there may be some aspects of the day to day stuff that I find
terminally boring but these are vastly outnumbered by the interesting
stuff that comes up.

Still, I'm pretty much convinced that I'm completely unemployable too,
but I'm pretty sure that's just a temporary mindset thing at the moment ;-).

 

That'll be me then. If I didn't have bills to pay, I'd currently be
blating around the Pyrenees on a bike, or windsurfing in Aruba, or
playing with the dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico[1], or snowboarding in
Canada, or... etc etc.

[1] OK maybe not that one this year.

 

Or even blatting ytc.