Catch Up

I haven't been around much on the forum lately, thanks to those of you who sent PM's checking up if I am OK.
Things are not going well on the work front, I may be made redundant & to be honest I have been a bit down in the dumps. I am not one to bring others down with my tales of woe, so have stayed off the forum, but didn't realise that this would cause concern to some members.

As a result of the work situation all prep on the BBR race bike has stopped as I don't want to throw money at a race bike that I possibly won't be able to race anyway.

Anyway, that's the situation, don't want sympathy as shit happens and if the worst happens I'll deal with it, just thought I let you guys know why I haven't been on much.

 

Jesus! 5 times in 5 years is bloody horrible MrO, I will stop mopping about & count my blessings!

 

Good luck to you too mate, it’s a shit time of year without going through the redundancy ringer!

 

Feck off! I’d end up in the big house coz apparently you aren’t allowed to discipline the little darlings!

 

As long as I can be assured that you are still barred after your last ladyboy incident at Madame Sins!

 

Cheers Joe, are you sure you didn’t tamper with that bike?

 

Well Phred, I have run my own transport & warehousing consultancy company in the past, I only packed it in back in 2004 because I had 3 companies go bust on me in a year & I didn't get paid.
I have been employed since Jan 2005 in the container transport industry working for 3 different companies in that time. This slow down in work is across the board, nothing we have done, just a lack of volume due to consumer spending slow down, my team are multiple award winners for excellence within our industry, unfortunately it seems to count for nothing if the next company offer discounts because they have no work, the work goes to the lowest bidder, in my book there is little point in being a busy fool, either you make profit or you die. We survived the last recession by scaling back & trimming, that's the plan again, if I am the chosen one from the two senior managers up for redundancy, I will basically be responsible for two divisions of the company, so twice the work!

 

Thanks Adie, as I said at the beginning, 'shit happens', I had been very down in the dumps initially but now just have that 'what will be, will be' attitude.
I am sure if the worse happens I will not be out of work long, I am just annoyed at the lack of loyalty from customers that take the short term financial gain created by the current market situation over long established & reliable service, fickle to say the least!

 

Right back at ya Bellend!