The day has come

[discoferret]

After 15 years being a projectionist at Odeon Southampton. I finally leave to day after being pushed out and forced to take voluntary redundancy. I feel a bit sad really as I use to love doing this job. But as you know companies are always trying to save money and I was the one on their hit list.

[debrooker]

shame after such a long period of service. Still onwards and upwards. I left my job after 12 years, and initially felt strange not having the same routine, but found something different (new people, new stresses lol) but never been happier.

All the best for your next move.

Cheers

[AcidDrink]

All the best with your new move. I am sure you will find even better place.

[p4ddy]

Good luck mate. Without meaning to offend anyone maybe change your name to Pieter, learn a few polish words & you'll be in full time employement again on monday lol.

For those not in southampton i really aint kidding, this would almost be 100% guarantee.

15yrs eh?? That means you may very well have been projectionist for Star Wars The Phantom Menace on a wednesday evening in Aug 1999 on my wife & I's first date :)

[AcidDrink]

[QUOTE=p4ddy;903118]Good luck mate. Without meaning to offend anyone maybe change your name to Pieter, learn a few polish words & you'll be in full time employement again on monday lol.

[/QUOTE]
I am Polish and there is no Polish name "Pieter". I am not even going to tell you what I do, because you wouldn't understand. Based on how you write, you probably should get a couple of English lessons as well.

[PKNEC]

The same happened to me after 18 years with one frim,I soon picked up a new job,routine and friends and have moved on since.
Happy days!!

[discoferret]

[QUOTE=p4ddy;903118]Good luck mate. Without meaning to offend anyone maybe change your name to Pieter, learn a few polish words & you'll be in full time employement again on monday lol.

For those not in southampton i really aint kidding, this would almost be 100% guarantee.

15yrs eh?? That means you may very well have been projectionist for Star Wars The Phantom Menace on a wednesday evening in Aug 1999 on my wife & I's first date :)[/QUOTE]


Lol and I might of been mate.

[p4ddy]

[QUOTE=AcidDrink;903122]I am Polish and there is no Polish name "Pieter". I am not even going to tell you what I do, because you wouldn't understand. Based on how you write, you probably should get a couple of English lessons as well.[/QUOTE]

I took it from an online list. I'm not having a dig at the polish but more at companys in southampton who will only employ polish people. I deliver to a company (who my wife used to work for till she was made redundant) & the staff are now 90% polish. We have employement agency's that advertise in polish & will only take on polish which is wrong. All the hotels i deliver to I'd say 65% of the staff are polish. My neighbours are polish & we get on well so i'm not anti polish.

[AcidDrink]

[QUOTE=p4ddy;903128]I took it from an online list. I'm not having a dig at the polish but more at companys in southampton who will only employ polish people. I deliver to a company (who my wife used to work for till she was made redundant) & the staff are now 90% polish. We have employement agency's that advertise in polish & will only take on polish which is wrong. All the hotels i deliver to I'd say 65% of the staff are polish. My neighbours are polish & we get on well so i'm not anti polish.[/QUOTE]
Fair enough. Nationalism in any form is bad. The agency which employs people based on their nationality is illegal. Stereotyping a whole nation, just because you had bad experiences with few Polish people is just ignorance.
I am not even that patriotic, frankly, I don't give a damn about my "old country" and if you ask me, I'd send every person who takes even a penny in benefits back home.
By the way, the correct spelling is "Piotr" or "Piotrek".

Sorry for derailing the thread, Discoferret, good luck with everything again and enjoy your Goblin :)

[iceuk]

P4ddy,
Be proud of our country mate, why would we want to go to there dumps, hell if I could
get free good quality health care, houses, Education and generous social benefits i'd go to there country too.

Am I anti anyone? No but I think we should get British ppl in jobs first, don't blame migrants blame the dumb goverments.

[kylelnsn]

Best of luck moving forward, youll soon pick up something else!

[BenScoobert]

Onwards and upwards, good luck

[discoferret]

Cheers guys, on a plus side I get more time to fly until I get another job. :-0

[milly0812]

Have you bought that goblin yet Pete ?

[n00by]

my grandad was Polish, good luck finding a new job/career, it's quite hard to find something decent nowadays, well it is up here anyways.