AIBU to think redundancy crisis is not getting enough media coverage?

I was made redundant 2 months ago. 50 people were let go from a company of 100. Funnily enough all the c-suite remained on their £1m salaries and seemingly bear no responsibility for the strategic failings. Job market is dead as well. Only roles are AI engineers in my World (finance). Terrifying

Troublesome?
Or calling out bad practice / calling out bullying or unfairnes
Instead of blindly going along "because that's that way it's always been done"
Would you call helene donnelly troublesome for the concerns she raised about mid staffs?

Same. They were not common in the 70s and 80s. In the 90s and beyond in was a single parent for much of my working life, and had no money to divert to a pension. I will work till I drop.

The anger is generated by right wing media, both online and on the TB.

Take that away and the reality is very different.

Knew a manager who insisted on travelling around our regional UK offices to give training. He racked up massive expenses on hotels, flights, meals, to give training, which easily the training could have been done on Teams/Zoom without the need for travel etc.

When I attended one of his training away days, the team went for a meal after work and he was absolutely racking up expensive cocktails etc like nobodies business.

I thought at the time, this won’t end nicely. Lo and behold, he was recently made redundant.

I agree with the poster who said companies are weeding out the deadwood. This guy was racking up easily a thousand or more a month on expenses alone.

People should realise you are monitored 24/7 at work, so any funny business, and you’re out - the employer will just pick the right time to give you the flick.

I’m so sorry to hear this.
have you looked at your benefit entitlement on Turn2Us?

Are you ignoring the fact that under the last government the following happened:

State Pension age increased - resulting in less headroom for promotion and younger people in companies.

Brexit: The of the freedom of movement has prevented young people finding work in Europe, when I went to university I had friends that travelled across Europe for a couple of years doing grape picking and working in bars!

This opportunity has been lost to them.

It’s also resulted in less GDP and less investment in this country. It’s now harder to export goods to our nearest trade partner which will have had an impact on job creation.

Not to mention the loss of EU regeneration schemes will have also contributed to a loss of jobs in each region.

The public sector was gutted… local government, youth services, civil service all cut to the bone with many thousands of redundancies.

Wealth inequality increased, younger people are saddled with a lifetime of debt from student loans and mortgages.

These issues far outweigh the impact of 18 months of a Labour government which many people were frustrated with, the main reason for the disappointment is because rather than providing the change they promised continued with continuity Tory policies!

In their 50s? Doubtful unless they had very good workplace pensions, which was generally only the Civil Service

How does that affect redundancies?
It’s a different conversation.

Because of how hard it is to find employment? A lot of people in that generation have good pensions so they might be able to use that until the age of the state pension...

I’ve just been made redundant for the second time in a year and I wasn’t even shocked or upset this time, I’m almost numb to the situation now. Even though it took a few months to find my current role due to longer recruitment processes, I felt quite lucky in the end to receive three offers out of nine interview cycles. Not sure how it’ll pan out this time as pretty much all my friends have been made redundant over the past few months and I’m seeing more and more ‘I’ve been looking for XX months and I’m about to lose my house’ stories on LinkedIn.

Nonsense

Never ever ever going to happen in the UK

Cost cutting everywhere. Near impossible to find a job that actually pays what it’s worth.

Who would be on each side? What would the war be about?

As I said upthread, it could be have-nots against haves, or sectarian war or maybe racial.

@KoiTetra

I’dd be interested to know more about who/what industries are looking for staff. From a recruiting perspective.

Who would be on each side? What would the war be about?

so weird

So who would be on each side? What weaponry would be used?

I agree this is interesting. Maybe arms would be sent from abroad and the split military would seize what weapons they could.
Snipers and assassins would hunt down known leaders.
There would be spies and informers like in East Germany.
Plenty of people would flee abroad.

Well Labour at any opportunity say they are/want to help working people .
All these redundancies reduces the number of people they want to help!

Do you understand that civil war means a war within a country.

So who would be on each side? What weaponry would be used? I am fascinated how you envisage a civil war panning out @kwikfitt !

I mean, by defintion, the army has to split for it to qualify as a civil war. Otherwise its a failed uprising or successful coup.
/pedantry

@iloveeverykindofcat no, not pedantry - excellent definition, thank you.

I am sorry but this is not a consequence of Brexit necessarily. Plus unemployment is lower in the UK vs most European countries that remained in the EU
Some figures here:
Overall Unemployment ComparisonsUK Rate: The UK harmonised unemployment rate was 5.0% in early 2026.EU/Eurozone Rates: The broader Eurozone unemployment rate averaged 6.3%, with the wider EU average sitting around 5.9%.Lower European Countries: Nations like Germany (3.8%), Czechia, and Poland have lower unemployment rates than the UK.Higher European Countries: Nations like France (8.1%), Finland (10.4%), and Spain (10.3%) have significantly higher unemployment rates than the UK

Yes. It's absolutely a crisis but not enough people are informed. Companies getting rid of staff presumably based on technology taking over but in reality the technology is not necessarily making things easier, the employees left are picking up the slack/burnt out, and the level of customer service/quality of products are suffering however companies do not care, they just care about profit. So many people out of work, at a time when people in full time jobs struggle to pay for necessities...I am so stressed in my job at the moment but powering through as really working in the background to make ourselves as self sufficient as possible in terms of energy and food needs (already mortgage free -early/mid 40's). I don't think people have a clue of what's to come...

I don't know. I am not in the UK but have a similar regulation, companies brining in skilled workers, which might mean a cook or fast food manager, have to provide a good wage. So you see them run an ad for $37 per hour for a cook, and then they don't find anyone, which if course is dodgy, and they get permission to hire from abroad.

What really happens is they write the requirements in a way that makes it unlikely anyone can fill them, and then the wages are a scam as well. The employee never sees that.

It's not about being "thick" though. I think the OP's point is that there's a hidden crisis in the world of work that isn't necessarily apparent in the visible data. I've been laid off twice in the last couple of years at the end of fixed-term contracts that would have been renewed routinely back in the day. I was technically self-employed and continued to be for a while after the last one ended but have been under-employed for some time now as my field (in which I was highly skilled, experienced and connected for 30-odd years) is being trashed by a combination of AI and time-honoured belt-tightening. I didn't sign on as my (modest) savings meant it wouldn't do me any good. I'm in my 50s and not in a position to not earn so I'm taking a deep breath and retraining completely, despite health problems and generally feeling like I could do with packing it all in to be frank. There will be no sign of me in any statistics whatsoever, but that doesn't mean that I'm not on the shitty end of a stick that's walloping a lot more of us than in previous generations. I do also feel for the school leavers and new graduates but at least they still have some energy, unlike those of us who thought we might just about get to the finish line unscathed.

I don’t think this contributes at all (fellow accountant here) the majority of finance and business degrees do indeed offer exemptions from chartered qualifications, but the degrees are only mildly helpful in actually working in accountancy.
And as you will be aware, the more elite accountancy training firms far prefer more academically rigorous degrees than accountancy /business /finance