How many of us out of work

Just wondering how many of us decent people have been put out of work...!!!

Under review, we do off-highway trucks for construction and mining. mining sector is not so badly affected, construction side planned production in 2009 is more than halved at the moment.

Out of an office of 30 engineers, we are considering 11 redundancies, of which I may be one.

Been unemployed now for 2 years!


















But i'm a full-time dad!

Things dont seem to look good anywhere, tractor market is starting to dip now too.

My contract is up at Christmas, the engineers here want me to stay on but it is in the hands of the bean counters. Who apparently dont have alot to count.


CAM 73 i guess you are on the round robin biking emails I get off Ben who came up your way contracting for a while? Thats a massive cut, from what he was saying you guys had a huge amount of work to do to bring the trucks upto date.

MY contract was up at the end of October.

I apply for 2-3 jobs a day. Occasionally, a recruitment agent will phone saying that I'm perfect for the role. They say they'll put the cv forward, then NOTHING.

I've even started looking for Permanent positions.

Was "medically" made redundant last year after my man flu. Thought I'd struggle to fill my day but now can't work out how I had time to work.

I avoided the chop in October, but can't see the company not having to do it again!

Its our year end tomorrow and we haven't paid any bills for the past 2 weeks as we are going to pay them on monday, so the account look better!?!?!

[Shellywoozle]

Not me but possibly my Mum who works for Woolies.

I am more worried for her than she is I think .... I will pay her bills for her til she finds something if Woolies closes ... she'd do the same for me.

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Not just yet, it is on the cards for other company groups as we are split into 3 regions, but our region have not had the round robin letter yet.

We were expecting it to come with our payslips this morning, as our london group of offices had their letters a couple of weeks ago.

I can only assume our group is 'surviving' at the moment.

I'm relavtively cheap anyway, yet earn a very respectable fee in comparison to my more senior associates.

Ive being made redundant twice in the early 00's as the telecoms sector went through a bad time. It feels like bull droppings and makes you feel very small. I have just had my contract extended till the end of March next year, but after that who knows.

Good luck to all you decent people who just want to be able to work and bring home a wage.