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Post by Yorkshirepotter on Oct 18, 2008 12:45:12 GMT
Just been told that tonight will be my last shift. Knew it might be coming but thought the fucker would at least give the chance to find something elce  So i now have a wedding in less than 3 weeks and no job, and to top it off the bloody job centre website is down for maintainence too. Not looking forward to my other half coming home and nhaving to tell her  Might leave the stoves on when i leave after my shift and let the place fucking burn! |
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Post by powchirper on Oct 18, 2008 12:51:08 GMT
Expecting to be made redundant soon myself at JCB when the morons i work with vote job cuts instead of hour cuts, greedy twats. they leave it late in telling you so you dont have time to nick owt.
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Post by Stafford-Stokie on Oct 18, 2008 13:03:02 GMT
Trouble is chaps its going to get worse before it gets better. I was talking to a friend last night who works at the job center and they are working Saturdays to cope with the backlog of people making claims.  New claims that is. |
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Post by stokie25 on Oct 18, 2008 13:09:24 GMT
sorry hear that mate! you clearly have all good intentions of finding something else and that says a lot these days! She'll understand...they're quite logical those women  Best of luck, though |
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Post by BiddulphStokie on Oct 18, 2008 13:14:05 GMT
sorry bout that.
seems alot of people are losing jobs at the minute
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Post by stokey-pokey pudding and pie on Oct 18, 2008 14:03:40 GMT
well at least the city execs will still get their bonuses! |
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Post by swampySCFC on Oct 18, 2008 17:30:17 GMT
Ive lost mine too and there doesnt seem much doing to be honest
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Post by Irish Stokie on Oct 18, 2008 17:34:00 GMT
Fuck all out there at the minute, im just out of college and looking for a job and there fairly thin on the ground
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Post by myleftboot on Oct 18, 2008 18:06:01 GMT
Shit at the moment out there lads. Bugger all.
I went in the job centre after being pushed out of my last job and was told by a certain employee of Newcastle job centre that "people like me usually go on the sick and look for a job that way". Sorry all because I am a bit dodgy sight wise in one eye. I thought the government were working to get people off incapacity.
Top it all off theres one grey haired fat bastard in the Jobcentre who signed me one morning and give me no end of mither because I couldnt see this job log. Jobcentres are useless, purely useless.
You will find another job mate hang in there. Don't rely on Newcastle jobcentre or Hanley one for that matter to help you with anything.
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Post by Miniman on Oct 18, 2008 18:08:27 GMT
I hear there is a space open in London to become the Speaking Clock. I'm afraid you do have to have a degree in Time but, you can get one, just like that.
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Post by daverichards on Oct 18, 2008 18:27:17 GMT
Job market is pretty wank at the minute , I quit being a van courier to go back to uni part time, hoping to find a job that would fit round my studies, it didn't happen so i have had to go back to being a courier on a motobike as the van just wouldn't fit round being a student .
Good luck with the job hunting fella
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Post by mermaidsal on Oct 18, 2008 19:44:25 GMT
Sorry to hear this yorkshire, and swampy. It's getting scary out there and we're not in the best area either, all the very best for getting fixed up again quickly.
Fingers crossed for your job at least Chirper, hope the others see sense in time.
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Post by powchirper on Oct 18, 2008 19:54:45 GMT
Cheers Sal, here's hoping.
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Post by rhodesy on Oct 18, 2008 20:07:33 GMT
Not good the times we are in  We've had it prettygood recently but back to reality I'm guessing |
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Post by Huddysleftfoot on Oct 18, 2008 20:13:30 GMT
Best of luck to those of you currently out of work, was in the same boat myself for 3 months earlier this year and wondered when or if I would find something else. Thankfully I did by staying positive and applying for everything I possibly felt I could do.
You're right about the Jobcentre, couldn't wait to see the back of me once I'd found my new job all by myself.
FWIW if you can;t get somethng in your current line, push them hard for some retraining, anythings better than no job.
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Post by santy on Oct 18, 2008 20:35:13 GMT
The job centre up here really doesn't care, hell they don't even check the forms or offer any help. I was unemployed down south for a few weeks before I moved back up here, and they couldn't do enough for me - others who were chavvy and had no interest etc they werent bothered about but up here you do get the feeling your being treated in contempt as though your a chavvy waster who wants to spend his life on the dole.
I'm hoping to have a new job soon I really do hate going into the job centre and I've only done it a few times.
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Post by imallstokedup on Oct 18, 2008 20:38:41 GMT
Have a look on-line asap.
You can set up job alerts on the following sites :
Monster, Fish 4 jobs, Jobsite, Total Jobs.
Good luck.
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Post by Huddysleftfoot on Oct 18, 2008 20:47:51 GMT
Have a look on-line asap. You can set up job alerts on the following sites : Monster, Fish 4 jobs, Jobsite, Total Jobs. Good luck. Don't forget reed.co.uk |
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Post by craig67 on Oct 18, 2008 21:12:30 GMT
Bank robbing always used to be a good alternative,but even that is fraught with danger nowerdays. They are more likely to rob you...... |
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Post by Neckend Potter on Oct 18, 2008 21:45:26 GMT
Bad luck yorskshire and chirper, know how you feel, lost my job at JCB when the first lot of jobs went earlier on this year.
Chin up, summit'll turn up, always does!!
Good luck
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Post by banburypotter on Oct 18, 2008 23:54:16 GMT
sorry to hear of your plight lads, i have been doing agency work at various places here in banbury for the last year whilst looking for a full time job. fortunately i was told on friday that the place i am at is taking me on full time.hang in there lads . sal, its not just the stoke area, its all over and getting worse. |
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Post by Trouserdog on Oct 19, 2008 7:45:03 GMT
Signing up with an agency would be my first port of call if I were to be made redundant (and it's a very real possibility in the next year or two ). My mate lost his job about three years ago, did some temping and he's now earning decent money after getting his temp job made permanant. Tis a bit scary out there at the mo, but something will hopefully turn up if you do your best to make it happen. |
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Post by blurtonboy66 on Oct 19, 2008 8:51:03 GMT
I have been at asda for the last 4 months here in rhyl,before that i worked at a small steelworks in flint,they worked a 3 shift system but now with the credit crunc thw whole factory is on days,
very worrying times
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Post by dresdenstokie on Oct 19, 2008 10:42:52 GMT
we made 20 redundancies and the cunts there handled it completely wrong
not telling anyone and just handing out letters at the end of one day
luckily i stayed on but we had no warning or anything
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Post by tigger68 on Oct 19, 2008 10:43:01 GMT
one of my mates had been unemployed for about a year.....went to sign on last week they had him in an office to tell him they had found him a job.......to which he replied shit i was just starting to get on my feet !!!! ;D
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Post by myleftboot on Oct 19, 2008 11:52:05 GMT
Bank robbing always used to be a good alternative,but even that is fraught with danger nowerdays. They are more likely to rob you...... State the banks are in you would make more profit robbing a tramp sleeping under the subway in castle ;D |
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