Redundancy

If success is the best revenge then landing a higher paying job after being made redundant is pretty sweet.

The ideal situation.

Life gets even better if the new job comes along while you still have most of your redundancy payment intact.

A survey of white-collar workers made redundant last year found 41 per cent ended up finding a new job that paid more than the role they lost.

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  • Geoff says:

    01:43pm | 16/03/12

    Been redundant for 18 months, managed to get a few hours work for Coles on the dock…  now a new manager has given most of my hours to a mate.  centrelink refused to pay me anything for over 12 months… had to sell my apartment, had to sell my car… … Read more »

  • Ben C says:

    04:00pm | 15/03/12

    @ acotrel Taking your former employer’s customers can be an infringement of intellectual property - your client database is considered to be intellectual property. Unless there is an agreement that you may take some of your former employer’s customers if you set up your own competing business, you are legally… Read more »

 

What do you do with your life when what is left can be counted in years, rather than decades?

Table tennis champ Dorothy De Low. 100, still going strong. Pic: Phil Hillyard

When the realisation hits that you are sliding into oblivion?

This new fear is aided and abetted by the overwhelming attitude of the community towards the elderly.

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  • Damocles says:

    05:58pm | 21/03/11

    Yeah, well picked “rickety” Reg (blah..blah…blah), but I think you’ll find that “their or they’re” is a GRAMMATICAL error, not a SPELLING error, so go and bark up another tree! My “breathtaking, assumptive, god damn statement” is true and correct and one you didn’t respond to, but feel free to… Read more »

  • sherry says:

    12:44am | 20/03/11

    At the age of 45 I was bemoaning my state of ‘already too oldism’ to an 85 year old friend who had immigrated from England at the age of 75 to be near a particular spiritual community. She looked penetratingly at me and smiled indulgently; ‘My dear, 45 is a… Read more »

 

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