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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Rods2 on 14 November 2013, 23:03:48
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With a new generation of robots and computer AI on the horizon, how safe is your job?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2507100/Is-job-threat-ROBOTS-Expert-warns-office-jobs-vanish-2018.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2507100/Is-job-threat-ROBOTS-Expert-warns-office-jobs-vanish-2018.html)
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Going by the affects of the digital age. Prety damn safe tbh.
Its the oppsing management that are the main concern. Ffs.
Sorry. A wee rant there. :(
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100% safe here ... :)
(present job is being retired .. and no-one is going to sack me from that .. :) )
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100% safe here ... :)
(present job is being retired .. and no-one is going to sack me from that .. :) )
Your wife might ;D ;D
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No jobs safe now.... I`ve just reapplied for my job even though its the same security firm...
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Very safe. ;D ;D ;D
Anyone who lived through the seventies when we were told:
1. nuclear power would produce endless energy that would mean it would be a waste of time sending out fuel bills as they would be so small.
2. Prepare for the 3 or 4 day week as computers do our work. You must get something to interest you in your spare time
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No problems here - but others need to beware!!
Bloodbath going on in one company with whom I have links but no employment or earnings relationship. End game however might be relocation of their office which would have implications for me although not too serious.
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My job is safe,so long as women have there period and produce babies lol
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My job is safe,so long as women have there period and produce babies lol
I never knew you were a midwife. ;)
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Im not :y
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100% safe here ... :)
(present job is being retired .. and no-one is going to sack me from that .. :) )
+1 :y
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My jobs safe as long as people want furniture which let's be honest most people do ;D
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im medicaly retierd so somone please sack me from that ;D ;D ;D
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I guess I am lucky in so much that my Job is Safe, indeed there continue to be vacancies almost in every county in the Country....... :y :y
The drawback to this it I am unlikely to be able to get early retirement, although in my case health may dictate..... ::) ::)
Like most employed people though, in real terms, I have took a huge drop in salary since 2009.... >:( >:(
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Fairly. Looks like there is a good appetite for Movie streaming on mobile devices
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Fairly. Looks like there is a good appetite for Movie streaming on mobile devices
Won't help the people at blockbuster ::)
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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 .............
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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 ::)
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No problems with mine, ( civil servant) even plenty of overtime for those who want to do it ..
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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 :o :o
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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.
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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" ;D
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im medicaly retierd so somone please sack me from that ;D ;D ;D
and me kevin ;D ;D
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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 !
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My job is very safe.
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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.
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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 :-\