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

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 !

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!

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.

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

so weird

@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?

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

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

Nonsense

Never ever ever going to happen in the UK

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.

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...

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

Take that away and the reality is very different.

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.

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?

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

What someone views as calling out bullying or unfairness

is actually just a manager not putting up with an employee taking the piss or doing a poor job. The employee thinks they are being bullied. In fact they are being managed because they are not pulling their weight

This is one of the bigger issues with employers in general.

They want to put the cost and risk of training into the candidate and institutions like universities. But, they are finding that universities are beholden to those paying the fees and aren't giving the right skills nor ensuring quality.

Their answer is to claim there are no candidates and hire abroad, with the added bonus of lower salaries.

The answer is to put the responsibility for training on business, and make damn sure they can dump workers who aren't cutting it. They can fagm it out if they want to universities or other institutions but since they will be paying they will want to ensure value for money.

How long do they have to pay the £41k for. I suspect they have family/friends overseas wanting to come here and the money for the 'salary' is contributed from other sources. Once they are here they disappear

Probably something to do with the mass redundancies in the news industry

I know of a lot OP, YANBU. Perhaps however it is area dependent?

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