How 'safe' is your job?

[MissCommando]

What industry do you work in? Have you ever been threatened that your job isn't safe due to the recession? Or have you lost your job as a result? How many of you are lucky enough to be in a completely safe job and don't worry about it?

[dotty.]

I'm in retail, after redundency in 2009 due to liquidation of a concession brand in debenhams I straight away found another retail position, but whether that would happen again i'm not sure.

[Stephen_G]

I wouldn't know how safe my Retail job is (A major sporting goods chain). I could have lost my job on Christmas Eve 2009 - although I didn't find that out until a few weeks later. It was very touch-and-go.

Yesterday (To the day) I celebrated my fifth anniversary working there.

[bednobs]

i work for the NHS in a PCT. PCTs are finishing in april next year and will cease to exist, so i'm guessing my job is not safe! However, i don't worry too much

[lcg]

i have two jobs....nursing and teaching. both are safe from the chop as long as i don't f*** up. mind you, the knives are out in the hospital.....

[Prudie]

I'm a civil servant and for the last year or so was faced with the threat of redundancy owing to cuts. That has now passed without event but year after next we are due to be sold off to the private sector and it will again be a major risk. Does anyone ever feel really safe these days?

[factor-fiction]

After nearly 30 years I was made redundant. Since then I've had a series of temporary jobs (part time or full time- whatever I could get) with gaps of unemployment in between. I'm out of work again and when you are approaching mid 50s it's very difficult to interest employers, even with excellent qualifications and experience, so I'm pretty much reconciled to an ongoing struggle

[Hopkirk]

I thought my job was pretty safe.

I was then made redundant in June.

[erin-x]

I'm a private sector nursery nurse and I suppose if the economy was to REALLY nosedive and people didn't require childcare (due to being unemployed themselves) or couldn't afford it, then I would be up sh*t creek. At the moment, the nursery has been quiet with a lot of children leaving to go to school and instead of paying someone off, they will make us all take shots in different rooms and use us primarily for covering holiday's etc...

[bigbadmarty]

I work in construction - if I wasn't self employed I would have no work .
Nobody will take on the burden of an employee in this climate of uncertainty -
I must say it makes me snigger when I hear people on here bleating on about what they are entitled to fleece out of an employer .
And don't get me started on "sick pay " and "paternity leave" ...

[thenry]

A job is a luxury. I suppose you expect someone to pay your tax and NI and pay your full wage whilst you go on holiday etc. Why should you have a 'safe job'. Your employer is taking all the risks.

[boxtops]

Same as bednobs, we don't know who will be our bosses or even if we'll be wanted after 1 April. This the the fifth reorganisation imposed on the NHS since I joined in the late 90s, this is the first one where there is no obvious place to go, where it's all up for grabs.

[joeluke]

Took redundancy from HMRC in their 2010 cull,

Cushiest job I ever had, those who say civil servants are pen pushers have got it right

Have a better position, earning more money, but I actually have to work for a living now!

Is anyones job 100% safe these days?

[lcg]

i suppose i am lucky that they reorganised my foundation nhs trust last year and survived the chop.....they have at least taken the opportunity to weed out some of the sh** in the hospital, tho....through 'competency' assessments and several complaints/investigations etc. i really was beginning to wonder about some of the people working there...useless and damn incompetent.

[boxtops]

I used to work in insurance - "people will always need insurance" - nope, the department closed when it combined with another organisation. Nothing's safe these days.

[dotty.]

marty my OH is self employed in the construction industry and I do his tax return, he does ok, he however like all self-employed cannot have 4/5 weeks paid holiday but he doesn't complain when i get paid holiday. he is on £18 an hour though, which even after deductions goes some way to compensate for unpaid holidays

[DaisyNonna]

Teaching is not safe from the chop. I worked for 8 years at a school and was made redundant when re-organisation came in. Had already been teaching in other schools for 15 years. Last in, first out. My job was lost when a member of staff who had been on secondment, retraining from art to Special needs came back. A man. Not that I had not continued to get extra qualifications in my own time at my own expense.

[sunny-dave]

My (part-time) job with the NHS ends next March as the PCTs are abolished.

Someone is going to have to carry out some of my statutory functions after that - but no-one seems to have any idea who that might be ...

[Greedyfly]

Made redundant at 25 years old from a small company. Now work for a massive organisation and have as much safety as I could have - if redundancy became an issue in the department I work for I would just be moved site or to another department. It isn't something I feel I need to worry about and is the sole reason I stay working there really.

[boxtops]

I know the feeling, dave - what you do is valuable, but nobody will realise how important it is until you're not there....

[Hopkirk]

I drive lorries, and after the redundancy I have gone self employed.

I am offered more work than I can cope with.