Recession is over yeh right.

[LipolyGone]

Weve all been told by the media etc
that the recession is over.
Well the company i work for anounced
on friday that there will be more redundancy's.
They laid some off in september now the axe
is about to fall again.
I have been here nine years but to be honest i'm
keeping my head down hopeing and praying
that i'm not one of them :(
martin

[Asid]

Thats tough. I hope everything goes ok :grouphug:

[adieuk]

hope you will be ok mate
yes its not good m8 they say its over after the country is out the s++t
but then they put every think back up again so everybody suffers again
and thats why i had to sell my 700:(
just to keep my head above water
it will take about five years before were ok again maybe more:(
sorry guys rant over

[Smoothound]

Fingers crossed for you mate. I'm struggling to find something currently, my fault for jacking in what I had last month. Little out there currently locally unless you fancy doing care work :(

[xygax]

I think the effect is delayed in some sectors we have only just calmed down last year was stacked out but i can see a few lean months coming.... Hope it dont last for long...

Steve

[choppertastic]

Myself and the lads in the team I work in all got letters in November saying that our jobs may well be redundant in June. :eek:

What I don't understand is if we are in a recession then how come everything is still going up in price.

[Adrian]

Its far from over imho, i do a lot of contract work and have been unafected up untill now (touch wood) however it is slowing up a bit and some of the other contract guys have had the chop :(, but as martin says "keep your head down" and try and get on with a good job,thats my plan anyways :)

[spunkmyer]

[quote=rcslopesurfer;411229]Weve all been told by the media etc
that the recession is over.
Well the company i work for anounced
on friday that there will be more redundancy's.
They laid some off in september now the axe
is about to fall again.
I have been here nine years but to be honest i'm
keeping my head down hopeing and praying
that i'm not one of them :(
martin[/quote]

I feel for ya mate... Been through that myself and got laid off as company shut down:(... Back in work now but not on the same pay and finding it hard going

[Gav]

I feel for you too Martin, stick with it.

Annoys me with the recession when money should have bee spent on renewable energy businesses factories solar panel / wind farms etc ages ago. Just last year a wind turbine Blade factory close in the south. With huge
protest and then months later it was announces multiple wind turbines will now be installed on the south coast. I don't pretend to know a huge deal about this but it makes no sense when were force fed to go green. All those made redundant from that factory must be sick.

Anyway good luck to those still searching for work.

[EnVeeTee]

[quote=rcslopesurfer;411229]Weve all been told by the media etc
that the recession is over.
Well the company i work for anounced
on friday that there will be more redundancy's.
They laid some off in september now the axe
is about to fall again.
I have been here nine years but to be honest i'm
keeping my head down hopeing and praying
that i'm not one of them :(
martin[/quote]

I hope it works out 4 u m8. We've spent the last 18 months GETTING poor, now we're going to spend the next 5 years BEING poor. More to come I'm afraid.

[coptermanic]

It's only the financial gurus of the country saying such. You only have to look around at all the store closures in the High Street, and talk to your mates to realise this is NOT over for us mere mortals.
Prices go up in Britain because by and large, retailers/manufacturers charge what they reckon to get away with; look at the fuel prices to get that one!!

[Jamin_00]

Feel for you Martin and I hope you dont lose your job.

They say we are out of the reccesion because we have had continuous months of economic growth, even though they may be 0.1% growth like this month but that still means a positive growth and they say we are out.

We not out till Brown out..

Its gonna be at least 3-5 years before the average joe gets back to normal as the economy will take years to recover properly but as long as house prices keep risely slowly we will get out of it.

Its going to get worse and this is the truth unfortunatly before it gets any better :(

[Pitman]

[quote=Jamin_00;411279]

We not out till Brown out..

[/quote]

I totally agree with that comment, Ben! He messed up the economy when he was Chancellor, and as PM, well, what a waste of space! As you say, it will take years to get the economy back on track.

I really feel for your guys whose jobs are threatened, I was made redundant in 2005 when the company I worked for went into administration, and it is not a nice feeling :(. If it is any conciliation, it was actually the best thing that happened to me, in that it forced me to explore other avenues, which have been far more rewarding (both financially and job satisfaction wise)!:) Hang in there, you guys!

[mark lane]

Hope everything will be ok Martin:)

Its tough out there. I work in retail and the bottoms fallen out of it. A bust period at Christmas but everyones put the brakes on now understandibly!

All we can do is plough on and hope the upcoming election stirs things up for the economy:cheers2:

[trillian]

As others have said I hope your job is not affected. The thing about what is said in the media is that a lot of the cashflow side of the equation where consumers are concerned is psychological. So if you start saying it's a recession then people tighten their spending and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. So it's good if the message out there is positive and money starts to flow again. But obviously this doesn't apply everywhere evenly and also takes time.