Crisis ?

[Nuno Sa]

Hi mates i have been away for a lot of time, but i miss this forum a lot and i?m making time to come back again everyday.

The thing is i have more work then ever, this crisis thing is it affecting your working hours like it?s happening here in Portugal or it?s just us. I?m working now about 10 to 12 hours per day.

Unemployment is at a record level of more them 10%, yes there are some worst percentages in other E.U. country's, but the amount of work is greater by the day and the responsibility that comes with it is also rising.

What do you say, is it happening also in the U.K and in the States, and in that place called "State of Mind" ?

[Lascaux]

most of my friends in their mid 20s are working full-time for less than minimum wage after tax is deducted. the others are unemployed!
and being londoners, can manage rent, food and booze and not much else.
im doing ok... but musics a dangerous one to be in especially now and i refuse to live comfortably on full time work when it starts to affect my music projects, but at least i have the choice! i can't count on both my fingers and toes the amount of people i know who have been made redundant in the last year, and the number of graduates who can't find work

[Nuno Sa]

Minimum wage here is almost 500€ that?s about 423? at current rates, there are a lot of people earning that here, i mean 260.000 people.

[Soulmanure]

Many of my friends are either out of work or working for less than they used to. And, of course, as a high school teacher, we're all looking at various forms of cuts in pay. Good times, though apparently shopper confidence is on the rise.

[eggopp]

Oh how times change.. A few years ago i used to tel myself as a government employee i was over worked and under aid.. Now i say thank god i have a job. The sad thing is in my profession we are getting busier and busier and central governement keep tightening the budgets.. Its a case of less money to do more work and all we get told, is to be more work effecient.

[rokkitsci]

Obvious

the amount of work is greater by the day and the responsibility that comes with it is also rising.

What do you say, is it happening also in the U.K and in the States, and in that place called "State of Mind" ?

What you (and the rest of the world) are seeing is the effect of GREED!

Since unemployment is running rampant everywhere, jobs are increasingly difficult to find.

Thus, employers have this guillotine poised over workers' necks: Work your arse off for the same money (or even less!); otherwise, find yourself on the dole! It's a threat that works.

[TJCoro]

A NY State of Mind...

What do you say, is it happening also in the U.K and in the States, and in that place called "State of Mind" ?

I can't speak for the other lands you mention, but anyone who wants a job in mystical State of Mind, Mexico, can have one.

Oh yeah....and it only rains at night heeeeeere iiiin staaaaate of Mind!

[r0lan6]

I am sorry to hear that. Yes, people are right, this sort of thing is happening everywhere else, including the UK. Lucky for me it is mainly the two extremes that are being targeted, that being upper management and the lower-paid end of the workforce. Of course I have no sympathy with the former!

[Kdot]

I am sorry to hear that. Yes, people are right, this sort of thing is happening everywhere else, including the UK. Lucky for me it is mainly the two extremes that are being targeted, that being upper management and the lower-paid end of the workforce. Of course I have no sympathy with the former!

I have many friends in the middle who have been affected by this too, where 3 tier management has been reduced to 2 tier with the work being famred out to the others.

I think the top brass are pretty safe in their positions, I'd say its those at the bottom and middle of the ladder who have to pick up the slack of those being made redundant.

I'm into my 4th month of unemployment and things arent looking any brighter.