23rd July - I'm still here!

A massive three weeks since I last blogged! Maybe I ought to change the daily adventures part of my blog description!

So, what's been happening? Well..........

First off, the job. The place I work at did announce those redundancies, and it was in the Lynn News as I said. As the work closes one of it's departments down, the positions are being made redundant, but the employer is aiming to keep as many of it's staff as it can to avoid redundancy payments. So what's happening is that the redundant staff are being filtered through all the other sections of the business - with the result that it is the site's contractors that are being laid off to make room for the staff.

From what I know (Understand) there's about 40 people being laid off, as well as some middle management. My working world, at the moment, is just full of goodbyes, see you's, and keep in touche's. Realistically, I know that as I say goodbye to these friends, I'm not likely to see them again.

I and my colleagues have been told that our department is not being affected......yet. Our department's hours will be reviewed again in October, once the fall out from the lay offs has settled - I am, realistically, expecting the departments hours to be cut to somewhere where they used to be - which means that three out of the five of us will be up the road if the directors decide to take this option.

And as we are all contractors too, the future outcome seems even more certain.

New Employers

I and my colleagues now work for another contracting company, as a direct result of the new manager at my old firm attempting to change the rosters over. Again. This one man, acting because he (alone) couldn't understand the shift pattern we are working, attempted to ride roughshod over 5 men's lives - and his actions has lost his company the contract which was making thousands of pounds of profit every year.

It took just 2 weeks for the company I work at to serve notice on my old employers and get someone else in. So, now, we work for someone else.

Which has interrupted the payroll. My old company stopped over £200 out of my last wages as I had claimed excess holiday hours. The repossession order for the house which I had sorted out last month is now back on because I was late paying this month's instalment. I now get paid fortnightly instead of monthly as well, so I could only afford to pay two weeks mortgage instead of the month.

I should have caught back up with myself with the payments by making the second fortnightly payment this weekend, so it's perhaps not quite so bad. I have spoken to the mortgage company, who are not interested in the reasons why, they are only bothered with the fact that I've been late on the first arranged payment. So, hopefully, I will be able to stop the action again.

Keeping on keeping on. I just need to get rid of this total desperation, hopelessness and sadness that has surrounded me and my life. There's still more to tell, I'll update again in a day or so. Paul