Sorry to hear this, there’s a lot of it about. Hope something comes your way really soon.
Sorry to hear that Les. I seem to remember you and your colleagues were thinking of going solo back in January when it looked a bit ropey last time, could you do that?
Well if I get made redundant want to start an agency? Haha.
@Les_Zeppelin I’ve managed to get a few cash in hand jobs over the last few weeks.
Sorry to hear that @Les_Zeppelin hope something comes up. Your skills are still valuable so am sure you’ll find work soon…
Very valuable.
i’m a tech in web hosting. happy to pass along CVs with a cheery reference for any of you if you have windows or linux skills. no clue how recruitment is working currently but still happy to try
Heres how many leads I generated since June 2018 and my conversion rate (on a 10 step form including phone number)
Come and get me girls and boys. 
That is high. My conversion rate of ecommerce sales is 1% and I’m buzzing off that average order value of maybe £700. Not that I’ve looked for a few months!
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Haha cheers but that’s a no and a no. Tech shit is beyond me.
Hmmm, looks like you had a big slump around March/April/May time, maybe it’s because of that?
JK, sorry. That shit sucks. Been seeing alot of it about, there will be quite a few people out of jobs soon. It’s mostly because this period has outed all the middle management that do fuck all apart from have meetings and blue sky talk while the under paid below them sort it out. Luckily you have skills so you’ll be good.
The new owner the company. Fucking hell. I’m embarrassed to hear him talk because I really didn’t think people like this existed. These are the stream of consciousness notes I took from our last ‘meeting’ last week.
He told me off for saying ‘my’ not ‘our’ and now I know why.
The big book of management cliche shit that flows out if his open sewer of a face. Fucking hell. He’s like turbo Brent mixed with partridge but a proper ruthless Michael Fabricant behind it all.
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innit, the stories my Missus tells me with their company. Some unreal fuckwits blindly wandering around claiming ideas from people being paid 20k and they’re getting 80k.
Companies learning some efficiency is a good thing but not when thousands of people are chucked out and their skills are no longer needed because everyone has gotten rid of their chaff. Like I said though, your skills are still needed, you’re obv not the above.
this really is becoming a thing - the whole off/near shoring thing is slowly being replaced with automation. Macro wise lets hope it gets nipped in the bud. Not sure how governments can sustain it. Deep joy.
Cheers.
Nope because the people I was going to do it with are the directors of this company now and my boss was the one who Freddo Corleone’d me today so I doubt she will jump ship.
I would like to go freelance but I could never bring myself to go away from having a guaranteed wage each month.
I wouldn’t recommend it either, there’s extra money to be made for sure and a lot of people fall for that but the security of the guaranteed wage is worth more in my view. I did it for a year and took about 2 weeks holiday for the entire period, it’s an easy trap to fall into and I’ve seen others do it and knacker themselves out.
move to a new place? new job?
Damn Les that fucking sucks. Much love!
Yeah this is awful. Especially with those sort of numbers you think the company would at least keep you on to use your talents in another area.
When you said this, I immediately thought.
Sorry for making light, I’m sorry to hear.
Man, if you could generate that amount for me I’ll give you a job.
I don’t understand why they can’t just furlough you for a few months, it wouldn’t cost them anything would it?
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Anyone elses back getting totally fucked from working from home? I haven’t invested in a proper office chair and I really regret it. Felt a proper ping this morning and it’s quite debilitating today.
Doesn’t help that I’m always competing for desk space with the Mrs too. So keep getting relegated to the sofa when she needs the desk or if I have calls (which is often). I stand if possible but its not always simple when you write code for a living. You need to be able to get comfortable and focus.
Need to do some yoga.
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