BT has just announced they will lose 55000 jobs, Vodaphone are cutting 10,000 jobs I suspect the Great Reset has arrived.

Corbyn wanted to nationalise Open Reach which just showed what idiots politicians are. Unsurprisingly the Chairman of BT was not against the idea, of course he wasn't Open Reach is a giant white elephant.

BT is stuck with a legacy infrastructure they can't get rid of they are phasing out landlines and even fibre optic will not be required for most homes in the future. The 5G rollout has been appalling but is now getting underway for most of us this means we will no longer need telephone or broadband wires hence the job cuts.

Meanwhile the unions at Lloyds bank are complaining because Lloyds want to stop WFH, are they for real? Banking is one of the most vulnerable sectors it has already lost tens of thousands of jobs and this is only the start.

Some people want a 4 day week plus WFH plus the right not to be contacted outside of working hours. Well guess work they will probably get what they want and more when they lose their job.

I had a manager tell me his job was safe because nobody could cover his experience, he was an idiot. Most of his job was vanilla a small part of it did require knowledge and experience so we automated the vanilla and created a new job for the difficult stuff from his role and his colleagues.

So is your job safe?

Edited by Badger11 (19 May 2023 9.07am)

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I think after Covid, a lot of people began to see how susceptible their industries were to financial strains. It used to be up to around the 1970's there were still "jobs for life" in a lot of sectors. The 1980's/1990's saw people have around 3 career changes during their working life.
My experience leads me to say no job is safe. It's just the higher the top you are, the bigger pay-off you get. reward for failure, again.
Currently I'm doing short-term (months at a time) contract work with an agency, that might see me to retirement. Or death

I disengage, I turn the page.

I think this may become the norm rather like seasonal farm work or extra staff at Christmas.

Edited by Badger11 (19 May 2023 10.32am)

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LOL

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Not so easy when you are a PE teacher
Would be great to have an AI Edouard though

Living down here does have some advantages. At least you can see them cry.

That's where the robots come in

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