looks like im affected..

[5teve]

G'day guys..

Looks like the financial kneejerk has hit me too now.. unless something turns up im on 4 weeks notice from friday.. bugger!

anyone want a highly talented mechanical engineer? ok ok.. a mechanical engineer? :)

anyone else being affected?

Thanks

Steve

[copba]

Bugger,

Sorry to hear that mate, i was given 4 weeks notice myself last week.
Arhitectural draftsman, and there's no jobs around.

Damned Yanks.....

[CraigE]

Steve,
Sorry to hear that.
The flow ons are going to be horrendous. I dont think people realise how deeply this is going to go.
These American corporate clowns have a lot to answer for.
I hope they burn in hell.:mad:

[RobHay]

Steve,
Sorry to hear that.
The flow ons are going to be horrendous. I dont think people realise how deeply this is going to go.
These American corporate clowns have a lot to answer for.
I hope they burn in hell.:mad:

That is right...you cannot keep taking future profits without it coming back to bite you on your derriere......it is just pure greed.

[5teve]

Bugger,

Sorry to hear that mate, i was given 4 weeks notice myself last week.
Arhitectural draftsman, and there's no jobs around.

Damned Yanks.....


yup damned yanks and their greed.. still i guess it needed to happen.. now could be the seachange i need, Rach keeps on saying we ought to go and run a campsite! :D

Sorry to hear about yours too!

Steve

[DiscoTDI]

Sorry to hear that, I hope things turn out for you

[Chucaro]

Sorry about loosing the job mate.
Regarding the greed of the "American corporate clowns" we have here too many CEO who earn millons.
I believe that we have to start cleaning up our corporations as well and bring the manufacturing base of the 60's and 70's back to OZ

[stevo68]

Sorry to hear mate....working for myself...the pinch has been on since this time last year....have survived so far....the upside is no one can lay me off :D. Got made redundant once....and once was enough....never put myself back in a position where someone else has the control.....could be a whole new adventure awaiting you and others.

Regards

Stevo

[jmkoffice]

G'day guys..

Looks like the financial kneejerk has hit me too now.. unless something turns up im on 4 weeks notice from friday.. bugger!

anyone want a highly talented mechanical engineer? ok ok.. a mechanical engineer? :)

anyone else being affected?

Thanks

Steve
Steve, sorry to hear that Mate. I knew the GFC was serious when the (US) company I work for had to cut 24,000 (7%) of it's work force globally. We're talking engineers, Project Managers. no position was sacred. I believe the GFC flow-on will eventually hit every corner of industry including the Private Sector. These are uncharted waters the world is in. For our sake, let's hope Oz can pull through.....

[Heggs]

G'day guys..

Looks like the financial kneejerk has hit me too now.. unless something turns up im on 4 weeks notice from friday.. bugger!

anyone want a highly talented mechanical engineer? ok ok.. a mechanical engineer? :)

anyone else being affected?

Thanks

Steve

Its not just the Mechanical guys either I deal a lot with electrical engineers and they are having a quiet time as well, In my line of work I do the tendering on large contracts and this time last year was pricing $7.5m per month now pricing $2-$2.5m per month:( I just cant see how this is going to get better in the short-medium term, if engineers are being laid now then in 12 months time when jobs get to tender stage there wont be any.:twisted:

[Ralph1Malph]

G'day guys..

Looks like the financial kneejerk has hit me too now.. unless something turns up im on 4 weeks notice from friday.. bugger!

anyone want a highly talented mechanical engineer? ok ok.. a mechanical engineer? :)

anyone else being affected?

Thanks

Steve

Govt Job!
One thing is for certain, the public sector unions will not allow public service growth to stagnate or go backwards. That aside, all of these publicly funded infrastructure projects will need staff.
Scour the gazette!

Ralph

[5teve]

Sorry about loosing the job mate.
Regarding the greed of the "American corporate clowns" we have here too many CEO who earn millons.
I believe that we have to start cleaning up our corporations as well and bring the manufacturing base of the 60's and 70's back to OZ


dont worry it will come back.. i said it would ages ago..

UK was great for manufacture, eastern europe became cheap so they went there to save costs.. eastern europe got more expensive, so they went to the far east.. now china is going to get more expensive, so it all evens out which means local manufacture becomes relavent again!

In case of point.. it is now cheaper to get sheet metal made in Walsall, birmingham than in warsaw poland..

Thanks

Steve

[Randylandy]

Has hit me to. Got the call 2 weeks before Xmas just after going off shift "don't bother coming back no more work". The scary thing is how quickly it hit, 2 months earlier we had a years worth of work backlog then nothing. Just goes to show how dependant oz is on the mining industry.

Am taking the opportunity to change careers so have moved to the beach (might as well be a broke bum at the beach than a broke one out in the sticks) and are hoping to get a go as a Ranger with DEC. Pay might not be flash but govt job security and get payed to go 4x4 and camping makes up for it.:D

[LandyAndy]

Sorry to hear that Steve.
As Craig says its really going to hit hard,lots of smaller companies and their workers will suffer.
All you can hope Steve is you find something,even if its different just to keep the wolves from the door till the worlds mess is sorted.
Last few jobs we have advertised we havent got any applicants.We have had a heap of resumes sent in the last few weeks asking for work,and we have no positions advertised or available at the moment.
Andrew

[Sleepy]

Hope all goes well 5teve - I am sure with such qualification you will find another postion.Good Luck.

[Panda]

My job has been downsized to 4 days a week, which is great, except for the lack of money :( A bloke in the office's son got the sack last week (he's a creative designer or some such thing). Their excuse ... he's too talented and wasted working where he is. Go figu:(re!

Yip, things are definitely going downhill pretty quickly! :(

[dmdigital]

Not good news. Hope all goes well.

[Bigbjorn]

Words of advice given to clients by a CES Senior Case Manager:- If you are over 45 take anything you get offered even if you think it menial or beneath you. It may well be the only offer you will get.

[p38arover]

Sorry to hear that Steve.

Maybe I had better rethink my retirement which starts tomorrow week!

[spudboy]

My brother and 33 others got laid off 2 weeks before Xmas from a mid sized IT organisation. Cuts were decreed from Sydney (we are in Adelaide).

Lousy timing. Can't look for work over Xmas/NY, even in mid-Jan people are still on holidays.

He has luckily got something else, but not at his previous salary, and not in an "interesting" field, but it's a job and he has 3 kids + mortgage to think about....

[5teve]

Sorry to hear that Steve.
As Craig says its really going to hit hard,lots of smaller companies and their workers will suffer.
All you can hope Steve is you find something,even if its different just to keep the wolves from the door till the worlds mess is sorted.
Last few jobs we have advertised we havent got any applicants.We have had a heap of resumes sent in the last few weeks asking for work,and we have no positions advertised or available at the moment.
Andrew

im thinking Bunnings Andy... would save me a fortune (and cost me one too!) :)


Sorry to hear that Steve.

Maybe I had better rethink my retirement which starts tomorrow week!

I'd do it today ron.. get out the rat race!

Looks like so many people here have been affected.. so sorry to hear about all of your woes too guys!

Steve

[agrojnr]

Sorry to hear that steve but even in my industrie (laser cutting) we only have enough work for 1 day and it looks like I will have to start cutting jobs.

I hate being the boss sometimes

Adam

[Bigbjorn]

Sorry to hear that Steve.

Maybe I had better rethink my retirement which starts tomorrow week!

You will never regret it. I left as soon as I thought I could afford to. I retired the day after I signed the cheque for the last lot of school fees for my youngest.

My advice to all. Retire as young as possible. You don't know what is ahead of you health-wise. I have seen too many friends and colleagues die or suffer ill-health before retiring or soon after retiring too late when they could have left years before and had some life.

[p38arover]

If I'd retired a year ago when I turned 60, I'd have more money in my super than now - it would have had a fair bit more converted to cash.

[BMKal]

Steve - pm sent.

[Chucaro]

Sorry to hear that Steve.

Maybe I had better rethink my retirement which starts tomorrow week!

Mate we live only once and we do not have control for how long we are going to be here.
If you can survive on retirement, enjoy life to the maximun. I am 63 and many friends of my era did not make it or have a rotten health. ;)

[5teve]

Thanks BMK pm returned!

Looks like instead of going back to work then i should take everyones advice and retire young.. is 33 young enough? i should get a few years to enjoy myself then :)

doesnt matter i guess when you retire or what you do ... as long as you enjoy it! oh and get chance to enjoy it too :D

Thanks

Steve

[5teve]

Sorry to hear that steve but even in my industrie (laser cutting) we only have enough work for 1 day and it looks like I will have to start cutting jobs.

I hate being the boss sometimes

Adam

Sorry to hear that too adam.. i have some more work for you too.. but nothing that will keep you running for more than a few minutes! and nothing i want to put through yet until i know for definite that im going or staying here!

Yeah i can imagine that being the manager is crap.. our boss looked pretty down yesterday.. although he did say to me.. look on the bright side.. you can now finish the decking.. and strangely it was the first thing rach said too... anyone would think i was slow!

Thanks

Steve

[George130]

Sorry to hear guys.
I have at least a year before I have to contemplate worrying.
By then my project will probably be extended due to what the replacement will cost.