Ho-hum - my turn

I've just been placed at risk of redundancy.

Carefully selected criteria mean I'm gone. Ah well.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

I have already made the greatest contribution to the fight against climate
change that I can make: I have decided not to breed. Now quit bugging me and
go and talk to the Catholics.

 

Ah **** :-( Been there long enough for a decent wedge?

 

Bad luck old fruit. At least you've got the missus to give
you a good thra^H^H guidance in all things HR.

 

well, that's how they work it.

 

got my pay-out + pay-off yesterday. Reasonably pleased, as in my
back-of-a-fag-packet calculation of what it'd be after tax, I'd
underestimated by about a grand.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Krusty

Nope. Less than two years, so ****-all.

Fortunately, I hate my job so much that I'm feeling quite chipper.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

I have already made the greatest contribution to the fight against climate
change that I can make: I have decided not to breed. Now quit bugging me and
go and talk to the Catholics.

 

I say, that's not at all nice.

You've remembered the advice about the lip then - keep it stiff and
upper.

 

Wicked Uncle Nigel wrote:

Still a bit of an arse but everycloud etc etc.

 

Welcome to the club !

Cheers,

Paul.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Colin Irvine

You could crack walnuts on it.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

I have already made the greatest contribution to the fight against climate
change that I can make: I have decided not to breed. Now quit bugging me and
go and talk to the Catholics.

 

I'm sure you two don't want to hear this, but on a related topic: I
handed in my notice yesterday, after being poached by another company.

The only concern is that I might have to start working for a living.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Eddie

Good-oh. Someone's got to keep paying tax to keep us in dog-food and
Special Brew.

<shudder>

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

I have already made the greatest contribution to the fight against climate
change that I can make: I have decided not to breed. Now quit bugging me and
go and talk to the Catholics.

 

Sorry to hear it. If you're still planning on working in the same field, get
what you can from old bosses in the way of references etc.

In my old line of work, you had to be signed off for various licences,
generally after a certain amount of experience, displaying a level of
competency and so on. A few who hadn't done what would usually be required,
but did have a brass neck, got signed off for a licence or two by old bosses
who felt guilty...

I would also recommend signing on ASAP, it's a horrible horrible
gip -several of the staff would have been unemployable anywhere else,
wearing stained clothes and looking for all the world like alcoholic
geography teachers that were too close to retirement to sack, and one woman
took the liberty of rifling through an envelope of papers that I'd happened
to place on the table in front of me, to make sure that I really hadn't got
the form she wanted! However, it is at least some money, even if it is only
council tax relief, and if you end up unemployed for longer than you were
expecting, you'll need it, and they very rarely backdate it.

You may also be just able to get onto a master's course if that sort of
thing appeals, but you'd have to be very quick.

 

This is no time for cocktails.

 

Yeah, nice one.

'The green shoots of recovery' ??

On a not entirely unrelated note, i've had 3 interviews in the last 2
weeks, and 2 promising calls yesterday.

But not out of the woods just yet ...

Paul.

 

Erk. Well, more time to devote to the workshop, I suppose. Looking for
work in the same area, or something totally different?

 

That otoh is good. Time to go for the commercial pilot's licence?

 

**** me another one.

Fortunately in your case you have some specialist and rare skillsets.

 

With diabetes?

 

Ah, forgot about that.