thats shit news chris, really sorry to hear it mate,chin up dude,:(

Hope you get sorted soon Chris ;)

Shit news Chris.

I know Aldi are constantly looking for management trainees at various levels, cause the missus keeps looking at them!! so might be worth looking into that. They are pretty good looking job packages..

I've thought about Aldi as well, but with all the Woolies/Adams and other retail chain collapses there is a glut of experienced retail management looking for jobs.

Sorry to hear this Chris.

We have nothing going at our place, because of the merge in 04 where still sorting out the redeployment pool for staff and are really taking outsiders on.

I hope you get something soon, but good news on the no debt bit, but we all need money to survive.

also looked into Aldi...not as good as it look's..

24-28k per year sounds good but 6 days per week plus you can be located anywhere within 100 mile's of your home as a cover manager...a friend of mine had a 120 daily round trip on cover for 3 months whilst someone was off sick..

they also don't pay fuel cost's thats all included in your annual wage...

Sorry to hear mate, hope ya find sumat. 4 months is still along time, so ya should have plenty time to find sumat better. good luck!

Sorry to hear it Chris, but let's try to be constructive in this thread. If anyone knows of anywhere to try for work, lets list it in a sticky or something?

Up here in Tyne & Wear, (ironic I know) but Sunderland Benefits Centre are looking to take on a lot of people with management experience.

New Asda opening up here aswell.

My advice would be to take anywork short term, then look for the next long term move. I think recruitment consultants are the best option. Hays?

Best of luck CL.

Chris,
Do not get down hearted keep:D
18 went from my works in January.
Only 1 as not got a job now.
Do not be to picky with a job you can always look while you are
employed

Good luck Chris, I know how it feels & im sure you will find something!

Thanks guys,
Feels like I have spent hours on the phone today - probably because I have. Infact ive probably been busier today than I have for a long time at work :lol:. But hey ho, going to put the effort in.

Firstly looking within the area's I specialise, then I will start to look outside of the boundaries after a few weeks.

In the meantime, if anybody requires any import/export consultancy, cost savings in shipping methods of any type (domestic & international), independent customs advice. I still have all the contacts, good relationships and up to date information and very keen to help (its very rewarding to see the instant savings in putting my ideas into practice).

Sorry to hear that Chris mate, I'll keep my ear to the ground just in case - we do a lot of import here but probably shedding jobs rather than taking on at the mo :thumbdown:

Really sorry to hear about this mate. Its becoming a very common occurrence. 6 of my mates have all been made redundant in the last couple of months and I dont see the trend stopping.

Sorry to hear about your situation Chris, I am in the same boat, I've no idea what to do, 2nd time for me in 5 years.

Have you thought about re-training?

on the web front

fish4jobs
monster (although they have been hacked again)
jobsite stopped sending me any emails!

http://www.jobcentreplus.gov.uk/JCP/index.html

good luck!

I've sent a few CV's off but heard nothing back, just we may contact you in upto 6 weeks :(

sorry to hear about the news chris
we just got told yesterday that 80 people to go from my work
problely find out if its me in the next couple of weeks

I am amazed at how many people are out of work, i am used to not working 12 months a year maybe 8 months if i can be arsed usually but, even work for me is very quiet.

In my industry and others i presume there is money to be spent but companies seem to be much more reluctant to spend it.

I have to go to glasgow tomorrow to have an interview about working in norway again. Its not something i want to do but i feel i should take what ever i am offered at the moment because we really dont know when this is going to get better :confused:

Very true lee. The amount of empty units on deeside industrial park is scary. Thank god alot of my work comes through government (council offices, schools etc)

thats it working for portakabin a lot of the work is goverment nhs buildings like schools hospitals ect but the goverment are't signing the work off so we can't do nothing

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I get told tomorrow that I am officially at risk. I have a 33% chance of going or 66% chance of staying depending which way you look at it. Cant wait for my interview :thumbdown:

Dave,

Go back to Uni like I did when I got laid off (August 2008).

Best thing I ever did, other than buy an X6...

Not sure I can afford to do that mate

My outgoings are about £850p/m with my mortgage/food/kitten(lol)/fuel and I manage that easily with p/t work and Student support.

Assignments suck ass though, but after being laid off 6 times in 11 years I got fed up of factory and shitty office jobs :(

Damn, your lucky, Im probably around £1500pm with everything but racing taken into account lol.

Good luck Dave, hope it's good news.

cheers bud

What do you do Dave?

Call Centre Manager and there isnt a great deal out there at the moment, but thats the same for all jobs I know

Best of luck 'Big Air'! Just don't resort to kidnap or assasination to raise those odds...

Times are hard for a lot of industries, but it is an opportunity to take a different path if you fancy a change or a gamble.

Sorry to hear that you lost your job!
I've only been at my place 6 months and been told I'm leaving next month as the place is shutting and all the work is going to Europe.
So this will be two redundacies in a year!

You tried these job sites yet?
Gisajob, Monster, totaljobs, jobserve, tiptopjob.

Hope you find something soon

I havent lost it just yet :lol:

Sorry to hear about you guys. I know its tough out there but good luck.

I know a lot of you are up north but if anyone is down south looking for any of the following then the company I work for are taking on at the moment, ING Direct (I know we are a bank but we bought out the icelandics so are pretty safe at the moment, so I'm told).

We are looking for a SAN Storage/Unix Engineer and a Business Project Manager. These Jobs are primarily based in Reading but the there may be a chance that they could be moved to our Cardiff office.

If anyone is in that area let me know what you are looking for and I'll have a chat with out HR team and see what might be up and coming if anything.

Good luck guys hope it all works out.

Mike

I have just been to a meeting this afternoon and we have to let 39 service techs go nationally :thumbdown: this is the second time in 4 months:thumbdown: We have all just been put on a 90 day consiltation period, The only bonus is if i can get another job somewhere else :lol: then i can take voluntary redundancy :thumbsup: The mrs was also told yesterday that she is also up for possible redundancy:thumbdown: and she works in HR :(

Redunancy, as I have found over the past few weeks, does have some advantages. Plenty of time to tinker with RC cars and to generally sit around in your pants doing nothing productive all day long. A quick flurry of CV drafting before the Mrs gets home to keep things sweet ;)

Bad news matey :(

I might join yeh ! :thumbsup: So to speak :lol: not literal.

yup potentially bad news as it would mean I would have to give up belgium & the euros but yeah my cars should be immaculate and I could sit around in my pants all day

Oh Christ NOOOOOO, not like last weekend!!!!:p

thats a pisser Dave... no work going in Cardiff and surrounds in the call centers there?

Sorry to hear about all the job loses guys.
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