Depends how big the company is.
If it's a big company, you only exist on a spreadsheet, and how good you are is not a factor. You'll be out the door regardless.

If it's a small company, you have a chance. As said above, you have to be indispensable, and liked by those who count.

To keep your sanity, I advise not listening to:

a) your father
b) any colleagues going round with rumours of the end. Once it's going to happen, if it's going to happen, you'll know. Until then, it will get you stressed and achieve little else to worry.

GOOD LUCK !
( I_Was_Mordred, Mon 6 Apr 2009, 22:40, 2 replies)

Thanks :)
I gave up listening to my father when I was 11 and he told me if I ever got pregnant when I wasn't married, he'd kick me out.
( Maladicta, Mon 6 Apr 2009, 23:34, closed)

Hmm
Not a nice thing to say to an 11-year-old, granted.

However, I would have thought that the issue should be less about getting pregnant "while not married", and more about getting pregnant while still a child and living with your own parents.

Having a baby should be a positive decision - made by people who are in a position in their lives to be able to afford to bring up a child. And that's not a position in which people still living with their parents are in.

Perhaps your father just expressed it wrong. Or perhaps he really genuinely does think that things like marriage matter, and he's just a twat. Sorry :)
(EuroSong I love horse meat: best of all the animals, Tue 7 Apr 2009, 9:54, closed)

big company spreadsheet thing
not necessarily true. my company is large, multi-national.

even in the current climate I've got myself into a position where I can go to them, tell them there is a job on offer elsewhere and they gave me more money.

just got to find an important niche, and get good at it, and be willing to help people.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 7 Apr 2009, 8:35, closed)