Firstly, if this brings up unpleasant memories, then sorry.
Once again my department seems to be under the spotlight and the concern has spread a little. It starts to play tricks on your mind, you wonder if you imagine it or not. Have any of you got any good stories, like proper hard-ass “they tried to shaft me, but I shafted them stories”?
I’d be quite (actuall really) happy with an actual redundancy but even so, when you feel like things are going behind your back and decisions being made, it could very unpleasant. If they’d just tell me, they’d ironically get so much more out of me for the next few months.
Happened at my last place. The company went through several rounds of redundancies over three years before I was let go. The atmosphere was pretty horrible, with gossiping and cliques forming. Not something I’d want to experience again. That said, I’d been there for 9 years and so got a decent payout though, which helped to keep me going while the job market was still terrible.
Looks like architectural firms are starting to make people redundant again, which is usually a sign that a recession isn’t far off. My firm seem to be okay as a few people have left to move away, meaning we’ve downsized through natural wastage.
There were rumours our office/dept. was to close last year as our sector was struggling and the company are known to be absolutely ruthless.
I took out redundancy insurance which helped to ease my worries, to the degree I was praying for it to happen. Cost about £28 per month and would have covered me up to a whole year, paying me 60% of my salary per month - easily enough to live on and cover our mortgage/bills etc.
Then our dept. got sold to another company and I just cannot foresee redundancy ever happening now, which is a good thing but has totally dashed my hopes of a free year off.
Mine would only be statutory, but that’s good for 18 years. On top of that, there’s a 12 week notice period and traditionally they’ve paid you that and asked you to go…