06-10-2025, 21:34
(This post was last modified: 07-10-2025, 13:38 by theo_luddite.)
Agree with what Devon says SHEP. Unless it's your own company, you can work your bollocks off for reasonable praise and the occasional promotion and maybe a half decent salary. I went down that track for probably 30-40 years and thought I'd made a bit of a name for myself in the industry I was in. Wasn't bothered about working until midnight to get reports/price increases done. Pissed my other half off at the time for writing computer code (that wasn't the main part of my job by the way, I learned how to do it to make my job easier) while she watched some crap on the TV I wasn't really interested in. If it's your own company you can still work your ass off for little return too.
That's great until a competitor, or worse still, a Private Equity/Vulture Capital business starts hoovering up companies like yours. If there's a direct rival in the other business, or businesses, doing the same job as you, if your lucky you'll get the job. Depends on who else is batting for you. They don't seem to do any interview process to decide who to keep. Or they might park you in a corner using about 20% of your knowledge like happened to me then wonder why you're pissed off with them.
I've seen everyone from MD's to Receptionists get the boot so the incumbents at the takeover company keep their job no matter how useless they are. If they don't keep you you'll get a redundancy package at whatever your company contract says (which if it's Government minimum it's about 2/3rds of bugger all) and not the enhanced one the company that bought yours might have, unless they keep you on for a while and then blow away the law about keeping you on under the same contract/terms. That can work two ways if you agree to it. It's sometimes worth paying a few hundred to a legal eagle with business law experience for an hours advice to tell you where you stand.
That said - I've also laughed like a drain when the bastards that took us over were also taken over themselves a few years later and they all suddenly found out what the shitty end of the stick actually looked like. You've got to have a picture in your minds eye of a bunch of arrogant bastards all holding a P45.
That's great until a competitor, or worse still, a Private Equity/Vulture Capital business starts hoovering up companies like yours. If there's a direct rival in the other business, or businesses, doing the same job as you, if your lucky you'll get the job. Depends on who else is batting for you. They don't seem to do any interview process to decide who to keep. Or they might park you in a corner using about 20% of your knowledge like happened to me then wonder why you're pissed off with them.
I've seen everyone from MD's to Receptionists get the boot so the incumbents at the takeover company keep their job no matter how useless they are. If they don't keep you you'll get a redundancy package at whatever your company contract says (which if it's Government minimum it's about 2/3rds of bugger all) and not the enhanced one the company that bought yours might have, unless they keep you on for a while and then blow away the law about keeping you on under the same contract/terms. That can work two ways if you agree to it. It's sometimes worth paying a few hundred to a legal eagle with business law experience for an hours advice to tell you where you stand.
That said - I've also laughed like a drain when the bastards that took us over were also taken over themselves a few years later and they all suddenly found out what the shitty end of the stick actually looked like. You've got to have a picture in your minds eye of a bunch of arrogant bastards all holding a P45.
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