So How Many Is It Going To Be?

The Guardian says 7,000; Birmingham Post says 10,000 jobs are to go and all Stephen Hughes is saying is that staff should expect difficult and painful decisions, including compulsory redundancy.

Well that’s alright to say, if your job isn’t on the line, if you don’t have to worry about how you’re going to pay your mortgage, that’s alright if you don’t have to worry about your youngsters, one of whom is at university and the other studying to get there and having to face £9,000 a year tuition fees EACH.

It doesn’t matter which of the above are right, if you don’t want to leave employment and are being forced out through compulsory redundancy that is the crux of the argument.
Having been made compulsory redundant once, the gut wrenching feeling that leaves you with, the ‘not wanted’ feeling. After being given notice I felt so low. Now forty years on, I can still remember that feeling of utter despair, of not being wanted, being useless. I have never felt like that since and thankfully never will, now that I’m retired, with an excellent occupational pension.