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[tadorna]

I have been made 'provisionally redundant'.

What this means in reality is that they couldn't decide between me and my friend who sits next to me, who works with me on a lot of the same stuff, and who I've known for years and worked with in two different jobs. So they've invited us both to a meeting on Friday where we will fight for their entertainment. Or something. We're supposed to think of alternative solutions and 'discuss how to decide'.

We are the only designers who've been affected, by the looks of it. I think management wanted to choose four (higher-paid) subeditors, but they threw us to the lions to appease the union (who couldn't give a stuff about us and have resented us for months).

Fuckheads. I can't think how they could have made it worse.

Comments

[bunnysquee.livejournal.com]

i would go with what rebism said and try to fight for your job! and don't resign no matter what lines they feed you - i don't know how it works where you are, but here we cannot collect unemployment if we resign, only if we're fired or downsized ...

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

Oh, don't worry, we won't be resigning! I don't think they really expect us to, to be honest, they just want us to give them some reason to pick one of us. Or offer to jobshare or something, I dunno... And yeah, same here, we can get Jobseeker's Allowance if we're made redunant etc, not if we resign.