What Credit Crunch?
Is it just me or do most of the smug "what credit crunch" posts sound like a load of old bollocks and lies? Also do people who refer to themseleves as being in unsackable positions really think that? Surely they can't be that dilussional, no job is 100% safe.
(Mr Teatime, Mon 26 Jan 2009, 19:19, 6 replies)

no one is un sack able
but a bit of positive thinking never hurt anyone
( ogwen69 has returned from Reddit, Mon 26 Jan 2009, 19:23, closed)

My job is 100% safe
I earn fuck-all on a taxi desk as a despatcher. Business is up on this time last year - mainly because I'm good at my job and the people who run the company don't know a fucking thing. But I know a couple of other people who run service companies whose business is increasing.

In fact, I don't personally know a single person who's been affected by this so-called recession.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Mon 26 Jan 2009, 19:26, closed)

Most people will be okay
It is the people in retail and UK manufacturing that are feeling it the most. But I defy anyone who worked at Woolies in the last 3 years not to know the writing wasn't on the wall.

I wish the press would announce the jobs being created as much as they do the losses.
(Outtheresomewhere, Mon 26 Jan 2009, 20:00, closed)

Well,
Some Irish civil servants can't be fired. They can be offered redundancy but if they don't want to leave they can't be made to.
(Violet kicks arse for the Lord, Mon 26 Jan 2009, 21:29, closed)

Coroners
I have a feeling it's also very difficult to lose your job if you're a coroner. If you screw up royally then someone will probably find a way, but there's some peculiarity about the office that pretty much guarantees job security. I'm happy to be proved wrong though.
(Photon wasting your time since, Wed 28 Jan 2009, 0:24, closed)

Unredundancyable
I'm a midwife.

There's no way that there will be redundancies in my field because there aren't enough of us to do the job in the first place. They can't fire me unless I'm incompetent. So I really do believe that my job is as safe as it ever was.
(Clarabelle is reverting to type on, Wed 28 Jan 2009, 15:02, closed)