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[05omegav6]

Fairly. Looks like there is a good appetite for Movie streaming on mobile devices

Won't help the people at blockbuster 

[Andy B]

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Like most employed people though, in real terms, I have took a huge drop in salary since 2009....

Although at different places, I'm now on the same-ish take home pay as I was nearly 10 yrs ago .............

[tunnie]

Fairly. Looks like there is a good appetite for Movie streaming on mobile devices

Won't help the people at blockbuster 

Classic case of them not adapting. People don't go to shop to rent, you get it from your device. Huge brand power, good cash at the time, they chose not to go into streaming when it mattered.

Now you have likes of Netflix and errr my new employer NowTV 

[2boxerdogs]

No problems with mine, ( civil servant) even plenty of overtime for those who want to do it ..

[Andy B]

No problems with mine, ( civil servant)

Who can tell with mine. It's very much up in the air at the moment ...... waiting to see what Warren thinks 

even plenty of overtime for those who want to do it ..

Same here. You can work every week end 12 hrs Sat & Sun if you want   

[2boxerdogs]

I actually applied for the early retirement package that was being offered, they estimated that about 300 would go for it, 1,700 of us applied  so it came to nothing. Next April I am going part time taking my gratuity & pension ,do half the hours for the same money so a better deal in the end.

[aaronjb]

Is any job safe? About 2003 the company I work for laid off 50% of it's staff, then grew to more than twice the size it was pre-layoffs until 2008 when it laid off 5% of the staff overnight.

Nobody is safe and there's no loyalty in business..

I always chuckle at the annual questionnaire when it asks "Do you trust the board to have the best interests of the company in mind?" .. there's no option for "I trust them to have the best interests of their bank accounts in mind"

[bored bigyin54]

im medicaly retierd so somone please sack me from that

and me kevin

[kev2b4]

Methinks no job is safe, have been made redundant approx 7 times, ( twice from same firm) , company at present is only 3 of us , and generally is hand to mouth-( so get expenses in asap!), but we are told we are coming out of recession !

[MR MISTER]

My job is very safe.

[Marks DTM Calib]

For me, I could never state that my job is safe (although this drill ship project is a 5 year contract on its own), I can only ensure I am employable in order to secure work for the future.

[jerry]

Is any job safe? I work in an industry most would regard as pretty secure but the problem is that , regardless of the economic climate, the shareholders always want more. It wont matter that you still make profit-or lots of it-what matters is that you make more profit than last year. One of the biggest influences on this is costs. And the biggest influence on costs? Wages. Hence all this talk amongst many of us that we are currently earning in real terms little if any more than we did 15 years ago and why so many positions are being made redundant and replaced by fewer and less well paid roles that basically do the same job as before but with a different job title and why new higher management (no doubt on inflated wages) are brought in to instigate new initiatives that will save money and enable us to work "smarter". Inevitably such initiatives thought up by mr/mrs/ms bluesky involve new technological initiatives not properly road tested and with no input from those pesky employees at the sharp end either so expect slow and reluctant u-turns at some point. I used to work for a company which was very old fashioned and the owner was no doubt seen as much as a ludite as anything-but then sometimes, just sometimes, maybe the adage "If it int broke, dont fix it " can be true? There is much to admire in the Toyota management ethic of constant improvement-but change for change sake is not the same thing. Its all down to money and, well, greed really and the current "Im alright Jack" government is not helping matters.Hopefully I'll still have a job in July. Whether its on a similar salary is another matter