Lol, what does this even mean?there is no epidemic, it's just the interplay of flows connecting to flows. (paraphrasing henry miller) between us and the virus there is no difference
Well the actual, real unemployment rate, including underemployment, was around 15% even *before* the virus arrived. So fuck knows what it's like now.They haven't even saved the economy at the expense of lives. Nearly 1 in 20 people are now classed as "unemployed." So in pure terms of competency measures, they've done neither of the things they sought to do.
Oof, that's tough. Best of luck with whatever comes next.yeah in personal news I'm getting made redundant in a few weeks because my company wants to axe my job role and replace my full-time position with a contract for 24 hrs a week with overtime "potential." The redundancy package is worthwhile for me because of my length of service but I can imagine there's a lot of people taking the worse job because they need something and their payoff isn't substantial at all.
Shit, good luck mate... one door closes and another one opens and all that but sure it's scary and I wish you well.my branch is at risk of closure, so if I took the reduced contract and then we closed after 12 weeks, I'd be losing half my redundancy pay. Not worth the gamble. I've been wanting to move on for ages anyway, it's just a total stress because of the state of the world. Hopefully I can get into a call centre for a few months while I figure out what to do next - I always thought if I got made redundant I would take the risk and try to break into freelance music journalism etc but it just doesn't feel like a risk worth taking at this time.
whereas the hell of being hostage to TUPE transfer is generally to be avoided - working alongside people getting paid less or more for the same job, not good at allkin ell - good luck with that! mate of mine who is a meter reader went for it, but got refused cos of the demand in the area, and contract given to the company that used to be g4s, where there's lads doing his job on 3 quid an hour less (they've honoured his current pay).
i think we're gonna see this more and more in dribs and drabs. twin prongs of brexit and covid i guess, but also bigger picture of 30 years of neo-liberal etc etc
yeah in personal news I'm getting made redundant in a few weeks because my company wants to axe my job role and replace my full-time position with a contract for 24 hrs a week with overtime "potential." The redundancy package is worthwhile for me because of my length of service but I can imagine there's a lot of people taking the worse job because they need something and their payoff isn't substantial at all.