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Monday, January 12, 2009

140

That's how many people are to be made redundant at Bobby's work within the next couple of months. Out of 310.

Bobby seems to feel reasonably confident that he'll be one of the survivors. But who knows, really?

No point in worrying, I suppose, so I will be putting a lot of effort into my tried and trusted strategies of denial and repression over the next while. They've served me well in the past, no reason to believe they'll let me down now.

I hope I don't need a "recession" tag for this blog.

8 comments:

zunzun said...

I hope you don't either...'tis scary. As for denial...it's a wonderful state of mind!LOL I joke only because it happens to be one of my favorite coping mechanisms as well...specially because I'm already prone to excessive worrying about the " what ifs"

Anonymous said...

I'm keeping all my fingers and toes crossed for Bobby. And already feeling sorry for the 140 families who will be affected by the retrenchments...

Fiona

Anonymous said...

It's a scary time, for sure. I hope it works out ok for Bobby, and that his company recovers quickly.

Jo said...

yikes.....what ended up happening....

Annalise said...

Jo, they're only going to let people know who's being made redundant at the end of Feb or in early March...

Cate said...

"Made redundant" sounds so genteel. Give me a good "fired" or "sacked" or "canned" any day.

In any case, I dearly hope none of the terms apply to Bobby's situation.

Rummfor5 said...

ah, your facebook update makes more sense now. :( While on the one hand it is nice they gave notice (heads up). But on the other hand. . .it's hard to wait to find out something like that.
I hope your family makes it through that cut.
Then I do also feel for the others who do not.

Anonymous said...

It is such a worry. My husband is in construction, usually the first to feel the pinch but we are hopeing he is better positioned than he was in the 1990's. At least we have our bloggy friends for support ;)