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Got told this morning that I'm getting laid off from work. Company is doing some restructuring and my role is no longer required.
Bit poor form imo. No heads up or warning, even my manager didn't know until I told him. Just first thing this morning being told Friday is your last day, see you later.
Really bad timing for me as well. I'm off travelling in Asia for 3 weeks from Saturday, then when I return in December, hiring is usually pretty slim pickings in the run up to Xmas. So looking like I could be unemployed for a few months.
Thankfully I've been putting some cash aside for most of the year, and I've got a good few months of runway to keep myself afloat. After the UK Chancellor put up taxes on businesses for hiring employees, I thought that something like this might happen. And given they're looking to put up taxes again at the end of the month, not surprising that a lot of businesses are reacting by slashing staff.
You don't get economic growth by raising taxes...
I'm in the fortunate position of being a single guy with relatively few outgoings. But for the guys with kids, a mortgage etc. Being laid off with only a few days notice, you think what the hell are they supposed to do.
Gonna enjoy my trip as it's already been paid for, but I'd be lying If I said I wasn't a bit worried. First time being laid off, job market isn't great and the economic outlook isn't looking particularly rosey...
Seems like it's just been one of those years for me where everything has gone down the toilet.
But, gotta crack on. Gonna spend the rest of the week writing my CV (on company time, screw 'em). And hopefully I'll be on to greener pastures come the new year.
Read More@Stigma man, the Paddington movie is about the most male-friendly movie that was done in the past 20 years.
Movies nowadays are rabid against men. There not a modicum of pro-male sentiment in any of the latest movies I've watched.
This is literally nazi-level propaganda.
@Typo-MAGAshiv It's not bad, it's just myopic and anaemic. It's middle shelf pre-packaged values. "Be nice!" Cheers, Paddington.
He makes nothing new
Come on now! I understand archetypes and narrative structures are universal and he employs them for his ideas, but nothing new?
These things are easy to love and easy to reach for. Young men need only be encouraged to dream.
Absolutely, but there in lies the evil of attention grabbing, nutrient free, modern slop! Why wrestle with your place amongst these ideas and ideals when YouTube Shorts go bbrrrrrr
You’re not wrong, but it’s only easy because we’re aware of what it is that is easy in the first place. That Reddit thread shows they don’t even know what they don’t know!
@Stigma Tolkien loved our anglo saxon roots, he loved the lore of the Germanic peoples. He makes nothing new, he just breathes fantasy into the old. The archetypes have been there since the dawn of our people, are there in fact in all the sons of the Yamnaya. These things are easy to love and easy to reach for. Young men need only be encouraged to dream.
LOTR films because that’s where it all peaked twenty years ago.
Critical Drinker had a video about how it all peaked with LOTR. he was right.
