One step closer to redundancy.....
It was announced at work today that Vodafone intend to close 2 more departments by the end of the year, i feel since the takeover they're phasing out our office section by section, although my department wasn't mentioned they did say that next week there will be a meeting to discuss the future of 'other departments'.
If i do get made redundant ive been there 14 years so would get a good payoff but i'd rather have a job. Time to start looking around, just in case.....:sad:
If i do get made redundant ive been there 14 years so would get a good payoff but i'd rather have a job. Time to start looking around, just in case.....:sad:
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Good luck though, hopefully it's not your dept that's gonna get the kibosh.
Be careful with that, if you take voluntary redundancy you might not be entitled to any help (jobseekers allowance, housing benefit) for a while. But hopefully you won't need to go down that route.
Half an hour later, she was made redundant too. Thankfully I was lucky enough to find another job by the end of the week.
Karma :D
After a previous redundancy quite a few years back I was actually told off for not claiming job seekers allowance. I'd been living off my redundancy money for a few months, not claiming for anything. I finally went in to ask why I hadn't heard about a council tax reduction application, they said I hadn't been paying my NI stamp and should have claimed for job seekers as that's the only way I could prove my income. I did tell them that I wasn't actively seeking work at the time which is why I didn't claim but they didn't seem to want to listen.
If you do get a package anything like she got, you could be laughing!!
All I know is I got one sweet-ass guitar as a pressie!
:D
Our temps were all told today they will be out by October. A lot of depressed people around the office today.
I'm off to pour a drink, i don't care that i'm working tomorrow!
you've been there 14 years, so you'd get 6 months contribution based JSA before they took income and capital limits into account for means tested JSA
Have you no idea what the settlement figure for DVR would be?
nope!:smile:
I heard today that another department was given 30 days redundancy notice today (vodafone decided to move the work to India) the only section left so far is us, i think it's only a matter of time before i'm out the door but nothing has been said yet:sad:
I've had 3 redundancies so far. I look on it as a hidden savings scheme :). The games industry is notorious for the number of companies that go bust and that's been 3 lots of unexpected payouts and then interesting changes of scene :).
If I hadn't been made redundant first time (from a non-games company that was downsizing) I'd probably never have got into games development.
The second time I was not so lucky with the management springing a surprise on everyone by calling the employees for an emergency meeting and then basically saying "you've three months to find another job". I don't think any of us got any compensation or any benefits. Hell, I didn't even get my employee fund benefits! But then I was just starting out in the industry and was quite junior so the money wouldn't have made much difference to me, plus I had no liabilities back then, so it wasn't quite a scary situation for me.
Things are different now. Going redundant is a thought I simply cannot afford to contemplate, which is why I always keep my eyes open on things going on the industry. How the other companies are faring; who is going up and who is going down; limited socialising with other folks from the industry in informal get togethers; keeping up with the trade press, etc. Call me paranoid! :)
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Paranoid!:grin:
Who was that? Come on out whoever you are! I know you are out there...
*clutches umbrella tightly*
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I had worked for nearly 4 years, I had rarely been off client sites earning them money and just so happens I was between placements when **** hit the fan, so despite earning them hundreds of thousands of pounds (by getting extra work for them when i was placed somewhere) they gave me my notice.
The legal minimum was one weeks pay for every FULL year, as i was just over a month shy of 4 years I got three weeks pay, not even a month. They then made me serve my notice at head office just surfing the net for a month.
Absolute scum, was pleased when they went under very quickly after.
Think it's time to fill in that application for Burger King!
YUSS! Burgers on Staff Discount!!
In theory I am on a zero hours contract (I have no guarantee of work) but being as I get my charging codes (the codes I put on my invoice to charge for work done) at least a month in advance it doesn't really matter.
I can see full time work rapidly becoming a thing of the past as companies take on the model of short term contracts to staff work as it comes in so its easier and cheaper to hire and fire. Some industries have done this for years and it works well for them. It's not something were used to in this country and it would really annoy the unions but it makes sense for business just to employ core essential staff full time and to hire contract as and when.
invent the WoS Burger. not much substance + an extra slice of cheese :)
Had another update at work today, not sure how to take it!
We were told today that our contract with Vodafone (formerly Cable & Wireless) will expire in March 2014 and won't be getting renewed. The remaining departments will be split between Glasgow and the Manchester office and will be absorbed into Vodafone (so my contract terms and conditions will be transferred over as they say). But as for what stays in Glasgow and what goes, no one knows. I am fairly certain our department is safe but who knows?
At least i know i have a job till at least March next year.
I guess that's short term good news? Weren't you all supposed to be getting booted this month or last month?
It was never announced we were getting the boot, that was another section.