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At The Back => The Dressing Room => Topic started by: JDC on September 24, 2008, 08:53:06 PM
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I just got sacked 4 hours ago because there isn't enough work for me to do :(
I've only been there for 3 months and now I have to compete with students for jobs!
they just took on 3 people as well!!! $%&#ing pissed off!!!
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Sorry to hear that mate. That really sucks.
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I know how you feel mate. I was sacked in April and haven't been able to find any work. I've tried bloody hard too. Try and look for something like an apprenticeship or a trainee position that will give you employment once you've completed the training. That's what I plan on doing once I get my drivers licence.
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good bye custom guitar fund too I think
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really sorry to hear that. :(
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I am sorry to hear of this-I hope that you find something else ASAP.
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really sorry to hear that. :(
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A friend of mine has been going into work every day for the last couple of weeks expecting to be told she's out of a job, it's just a matter of time apparently. Must be a terrible feeling. The company was flying high a year ago and now it's on the verge of collapse - amazing how quickly this is all happening.
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what else to say but :(
this is a sad story
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Sorry to hear that, it's a real bad feeling
I know it's not a good time to say it but hopefully in the not too distant future you will be able to view I as an opportunity
Rob...
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Really sorry to hear this, JDC. :(
Hope you get back on your feet nice and soon!
Roo
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Bad news matey, hopefully you'll find something ASAP. At least you've got something that the students haven't....experience at doing some bloody work :lol:
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I just got sacked 4 hours ago because there isn't enough work for me to do :(
I've only been there for 3 months and now I have to compete with students for jobs!
they just took on 3 people as well!!! $%&#ing pissed off!!!
That sucks, I'm sorry to hear that. What is it you do?
As mentioned above one thing Graduates don't have is real world experience so if that counts in your line of work. I work in IT at a Uni and if we had the choice we would always try to give the nod to a guy without a degree but substantial real world experience over a fresh graduate, it's just the way it is.
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Really sorry to hear that :(
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Yeah, really sorry to hear that. I've been made redundant 3 times over the years - I guess lots of people here have similar tales - and it's always sh1t when it happens, we know what you feel like...
So far, I've always survived it - but I know hearing that doesn't really help at the time though :(
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Sorry to hear that mate. One word though: Plumbing.
I'm thinking of doing it myself, I only just survive every month, am constantly in my overdraft and my job is far from secure. Gonna spend the last of my dough wisely and pay for a Plumbing qualification. No matter how fast technology advances, people will ALWAYS need plumbers and they earn £££££££££'s these days. Honestly, do it now, you'll be thanking me in a year! :D
I always wanted to do carpentry but Plumbing earns more so I'm doing that. I'm Arachnophobic but I'm willing to fight it off when going through those crawl-spaces for the pay, hehe.
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Sorry to hear that mate. One word though: Plumbing.
I'm thinking of doing it myself, I only just survive every month, am constantly in my overdraft and my job is far from secure. Gonna spend the last of my dough wisely and pay for a Plumbing qualification. No matter how fast technology advances, people will ALWAYS need plumbers and they earn £££££££££'s these days. Honestly, do it now, you'll be thanking me in a year! :D
I always wanted to do carpentry but Plumbing earns more so I'm doing that. I'm Arachnophobic but I'm willing to fight it off when going through those crawl-spaces for the pay, hehe.
I hear that there's a fair few opportunities in steel plumbing. I think that most plumbers don't want to do it and call in a specialist.
If I could go back and do it all again, I'd try to be a cabinet maker.
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My brother and also my eldest nephew are plumbers
There is a lot of work if you want to go self employed (which my brother never wanted to do), but my nephew is a different matter and loves it (and also earns pretty decent money too)
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a mate of mine trained as a gas fitter a few years back, worked in London for a year after training to get experience. He went self-employed and started his own company back in the north-east after that and has to constantly turn work down, he's that busy.
I'd planned to do an electricians night course at college but health problems have put pay to that for the moment. I think all us who were schooled in the late 80s/early 90s were $%&#ed over by this "IT is the future" bollocks. I should have listened to what my heart was telling me, I always had a natural interest in electrical engineering but changed courses after a year to IT - the careers people were selling the IT route heavily though telling us that traditional skills/trades were dying out and we'd never get any work. I was a different person back then at 16/17, very young for my age and low on self-confidence so I took notice when I should've stayed true to myself. Live and learn eh.
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a mate of mine trained as a gas fitter a few years back, worked in London for a year after training to get experience. He went self-employed and started his own company back in the north-east after that and has to constantly turn work down, he's that busy.
I'd planned to do an electricians night course at college but health problems have put pay to that for the moment. I think all us who were schooled in the late 80s/early 90s were $%&#ed over by this "IT is the future" bollocks. I should have listened to what my heart was telling me, I always had a natural interest in electrical engineering but changed courses after a year to IT - the careers people were selling the IT route heavily though telling us that traditional skills/trades were dying out and we'd never get any work. I was a different person back then at 16/17, very young for my age and low on self-confidence so I took notice when I should've stayed true to myself. Live and learn eh.
I know what you mean, if I could go back in time with the life skills and confidence I have now I'd do accounting
someone asked what I did, I was doing admin for a big haulage middle man type company, basically filing, post in and out, and finding and sending out proof of delivery notes, but it's not as simple as it should be because you rely on other people and other companies
growing up in a cr@p town with little opportunity has made me really competitive (I don't even like people who are taller than me!) and I try to market myself is the best possible way, too much wikipedia on social engineering and advertising techniques helps in that department but having to travel for work does seem to go against you for some employers
the way some people market themselves, even people with degrees, is awful!!!
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the way some people market themselves, even people with degrees, is awful!!!
Yeah, but a lot of people with degrees are still dumbasses. Doesn't mean you've got any sense by any stretch of the imagination. I come across degree qualified dumbasses all the time.
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I come across degree qualified dumbasses all the time.
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I know a girl who is a qualified nurse, and the other day I had to explain to her that leprachauns are in fact, not real.
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What, leprachauns are not real. Tell me you are joking right? I was depending on them and all.
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quiet! what do you think is driving ireland's tourism boom?!
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quiet! what do you think is driving ireland's tourism boom?!
Lol. She also couldnt understand how the twin towers fell. And i dont mean she didnt know that planes flew I to them. She actually couldn't figure out how they fell afterwards.
By this point n the conversation I was just about eating the inside of my mouth in laughter.
Btw sorry for hijacking the thread!