Work is going from bad to worse at the moment. With questions over brand, CMS, ‘best-of-breed’ agencies and upheaval, it’s no surprise that morale has reached an all time low. We’ve had two resignations in the past week. Correction – I have had two resignations in the past week. Two of my longest serving (longest [...]
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Next…?
Posted in Credit Crunch, Family, Friends, marketing, Me, Rant, Work, tagged Credit Crunch, Emotions, Friends, marketing, Me, money, Quality of life, Rant, Work on 05/07/2011 | Leave a Comment »
Restructuring…again
Posted in Credit Crunch, Excuses, marketing, Me, Rant, Work, tagged Credit Crunch, Friends, marketing, Me, money, Quality of life, Work on 07/03/2011 | Leave a Comment »
A couple of weeks ago my company issued its IMS. In the statement we missed our EBITDA contribution by a few percent. In the same announcement we also announced a restructuring charge of between $14-18m. It sent shivers down the spines of all colleagues that have lived through such ‘restructures’ in the past. On Friday [...]
Credit crunch?
Posted in Credit Crunch, Rant, Work, tagged Credit Crunch, Emotions, Me, Quality of life, redundancy, Work on 01/04/2010 | 1 Comment »
A while ago, I blogged about there being lots of companies using the credit crunch as a convenient excuse for getting away with a lot of crazy policies…well, here we are in March 2010 and I’m starting to see the same things happen. While I understand companies have to protect themselves and to remove the [...]
A warning
Posted in Credit Crunch, Family, Me, tagged money, Quality of life on 22/03/2010 | Leave a Comment »
My parents are not particularly internet-savvy, so when my mum asks for help to insure the cars at home, I usually do the GoCompare.com thing for them. This time, mum said to go with the cheapest quote which included breakdown insurance. Mistake. The quote was for One Call insurance. OMG! For those of you reading [...]
Orange Broadband, No Thanks
Posted in Credit Crunch, Excuses, Rant, Wii, Work, tagged broadband, money, orange, Rant on 29/04/2009 | Leave a Comment »
My broadband service has gone down. The computer is connected to the router and the router shows ADSL connection, but no Internet. My ISP is Orange. I have been happy (ish) with the service, if you don’t count the issues with the LiveBox – until now. I called customer services and reached Angela – a [...]
Weekends away
Posted in Credit Crunch, Family, Friends, Work, tagged Credit Crunch, money, Quality of life, redundancy, Work on 01/03/2009 | Leave a Comment »
With February being a bit busy, I’m really conscious that my boyfriend and I need to get away. We need to get away from home, from work, from our day-to-day lives. We really need to spend some time just being us. A couple. No homes to tidy, no issues to sort, no outside pressure – [...]
Blog rations
Posted in Credit Crunch, Me, Work, tagged Credit Crunch, Quality of life, redundancy, Work on 01/03/2009 | Leave a Comment »
I haven’t blogged for a while. In fact, February was very sparce in blogging terms. It’s the job. It’s the commute. It’s adjusting to a change in lifestyle. Eek. I get up at 6:20, I’m in car an hour later, another hour later I’m at the office. Between 5:30 and 6:00 I leave the office, [...]
Credit crunch, convenient excuse?
Posted in Credit Crunch, tagged Credit Crunch, redundancy, Work on 16/01/2009 | Leave a Comment »
No, I don’t mean what you think. The company that made me redundant at the end of last year ( remember, just in time for Christmas) has, this week, cut all employees salaries by 10%. Companies are getting away with treating their employees like s**t and using the credit crunch as the excuse. Yesterday, another [...]
I’m still waiting…
Posted in Credit Crunch, Excuses, Me, tagged Credit Crunch, money, remortgage on 22/12/2008 | Leave a Comment »
I remortgaged in November. Just around the same time that I was made redundant, I got notification that my mortgage had completed. I breathed a sigh of relief. It all went through during the middle of the month. So, here are the events of the last few weeks. Having paid up a full month in [...]
Telescope on the Credit Crunch – sccope.com
Posted in Credit Crunch, Friends, Geek, Me, Wii, tagged Credit Crunch, money, sccope on 20/11/2008 | Leave a Comment »
We’re all trying to save money in the run up to Christmas – but because of the credit crunch it’s a bigger issue than normal. Many of our favourite radio and TV presenters have picked up on this issue – Chris Evans’ radio show has the “Don’t Cancel Christmas” slot, for example. And various breakfast TV [...]
