1200 jobs go at nissan

Newcastle Building Society to lay 150 off.

Its not good news at all.

I found out the other day that British Gas will be cutting some of our jobs for the above reason and not looking to give people nice voluntary payoffs. Which is daft cos theres loads of people i work with that are only a few years off retiring. Just shows how much they value their employees.

They defo wont do last in first out because the last in are on lower pay band and they want everyone on that lower wage. It'll be down to attendance etc. They say theyre hoping for 800 voluntary redundancys, they wont get that many unless they offer atleast a years salary. They gonna give out letters to people who are at risk of losing there job. if they give them out before the voluntary comes up they will take it cos theyl think theyre gonna get laid off anyway. voluntary redundancy will be more than statutory. 800 Permanent by my calculations is roughly 1 in 3 people. I might be ok but i think this is a blessing in disguise. Alot of peple dont wanna work there and if given enough money they'll leave. I'd leave if i had another job, rach may have on lined up at the co-op for me but its not a definite.

A lot of people dont like working there but wouldnt leave for the world.

The company tried to offload the "old timers" a couple of years back offering them 14k to walk away ONLY 40 TOOK IT.

At least most of the fucking Polish have been sacked

Krack on back to Krakov and talke yr Gerkins with you job stealing twats

Yeah I cant see many people wanting to leave unless there close to retirement.Its not going to be easy for anyone to get a new job on the kind of money Nissan pay

fuck me your still working there after 4 years???

what u working on , not them gash micras cc still , when them come into garage i always check them rear fenders welds , disgracfull. . .

very hard for people who know nothing else but NISSAN NISSAN NISSAN NISSAN star jumps in the morning etc.... but why build so many cars in the first place , it never used to be like that there years ago , bit of a chilled out place . the world today , always in a hurry , more more more , well its all gone tits up but what goes down hopefully will go up again

According to a very very reliable source the staff who are being laid off were chosen 5-6 weeks ago

Been told today that our place is going to a four day week from next week for the forseeable future

sounds like stage one mate, i'd start looking if was you

what is it you manufacture?

quilts and pillows lol.Aye its not looking good like alothough the place is still making massive profits there getting small by the week

Theres been a few redundancy things over the last couple of years ranging from 10-13k. They've had a canny few take it but only 40 last time which was a few month ago. You're right though, theres loads who always gan on like they'd leave at the drop of a hat but they either love the place or are institutionalised like Brooks from Shawshank Redemption. They wont be able to adapt to a life where they dont need to ask to gan to the toilet.

I've got it in me head I wanna leave now and can not be arsed for building 500 cars a day. I'll probs get offered about 5 grand which is fucking shite.

Aye lol, I'm still bending the odd fender now and again.

It's still as a shit as ever! cant believe I've been there 3 and half years.

You know things are fucked up when people stop buying quilts and pillows.

That sounds like sumat i hear everyday in the smoking shelter "i heard this bla bla bla"

Its probably partly true but they have been watching people like hawks all week trying to see if anyone does owt that they can get marked down for,"reet he's not wearing his cap,he'll be 1st out the door".

I told Caz where i heard it, dont wanna put it on a public message board though.

Aye she told me before.

Your source sounds alot more credible then the lads at work who hear stuff from the wifey on the burger van whose brothers mates uncles sisters mates husband etc etc....

i dont think you could get any more credible