Any1 in the UK feeling the credit crunch?

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are there any members of this forum, currently working in the UK IT Market, feeling the credit crunch?

RECESSION??? JOB LOSSES???

just askin, as 200 peeps in my town have been laid off but not in the IT market, ... is the sector in trouble?

 

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your not in leicester are you? about 350 were layed off from caterpillar in the week, all of them were temporary workers but having said that many were working there for three years, not good and its still early days.

 

I am feeling it anyway, with my food bill rising, fuel prices through the roof, gas and electric rises, and mortgage payments likely to rise.

However, I seem to recall that in one of the weekly computing mags in the last week or two they said that IT wasn't having or going to have as bad a time as other service industry areas. I'll see if I can dig it out.

 

There are some areas in a business where I think its easier to operate with fewer staff, however computer networks will always need administrators. If the network and servers are having problems, everyone in the company will potentially be sat around twiddling their thumbs, not making best use of the expensive man hours in a time of belt tightening.

 

...and then you can fire them! BRILLIANT!!!

Nightwalker has just been promoted to management. Please direct all inquiries to Nightwalker, CEO.

 

You have nothing to fear; that's unless you provide IT Support for estate agents!

Start sh*tting it when the Polish leave...hang on...they already are!!!!

Benefit books to the ready guys! Time to get that tax back!

"things can only get better, can only get better..." funny how you never hear that song anymore???

 

There's a credit crunch? Really? Could someone please inform Capital One and American Express of this obscure bit of trivia? Because it seems like every time I answer my phone these days it's Capital One pushing a credit card, and my mailbox is jammed so thick with American Express applications that my regular mail barely fits.

Oi.

The price of fuel is what's killing us here in my rural chunk of The Great White North. $1.34/litre and climbing fast. I realize this is cheap to most of you living in the U.K., but we're not used to seeing it over $0.80/litre. I'm doing fewer service calls and bluntly telling customers that their machines have to come to me if they live too far out (my service area is VERY large). Most people are quite understanding.

I've cut back on the amount of driving I'm doing for photo shoots as well these days, despite having better than normal print and image licensing sales as of late. I've got a feeling that things are going to get very ugly in short order so we're banking what we can while we can in anticipation of hard times. These fuel prices are unsustainable (damn speculators) and a lot of supply chains are breaking right now.

 

Down (South, UK) here I would say there are less entry/trainee positions at the moment.
Companies less willing to take on new staff to train.

A increase of contractors.

There's still a huge demand for high end IT jobs.

Lay-offs cant say i heard about too many this year ...

Banks and mobile phone companies seem to be cutting back and reorganising.

I would say for the well experienced and certified the time has never been better.

Andi

 

May I ask which are the high end IT jobs, no pun intended just that I have come across that one too often.

 

MCSE, CCNA and greater .. with years of experiance

Andi

 

the ones in the south seem to be are advertised everywhere, yes they are all mainly through agencies.

PS: I have memories of the recession and experianced the dot com burst (the later i saw a lot of friends loose their jobs and businesses).. i hope we don't have a full blown recession because it will effect every industry

Andi

 

You didn't just put MCSE and CCNA next to the term 'high end IT job did you'?
you will know a high end IT job when you see it, because your certs won't mean a damn thing when you get offered it

 

Well apparently my grasp of the britsh language is really starting to slip!

Ok, first off, isn't your car tiny now? I thought it was only a 2 person car? Are you going to switch to a one seater and make M ride in the trunk?

Is an estate a car? Where I come from it is a big piece of land with several acres with a very nice house.

3rd, what the hell is titchy?

As for this thread, I really don't think it matters what country you are in. I think everyone is starting to feel the pinch. I know Ford and GMC I belive it is have made some major cuts in workers here in the states. If the bean counters say it time to trim back I think everyone is at risk in a company. That why it pays to study and work hard so you can best at whatever you are doing so you have a better chance of surving the cut backs.

 

...because American cars suck.

 

Have to say I have started to feel the Credit Crunch when it comes to putting petrol in my car.

I have an Audi A4 and filled her up yesterday it cost just a tad under £79.00, with the price being 119.9 per litre.

The only good thing is that my first IT job is only 1.5 miles away

 

I'll have to echo what a previous poster mentioned... what does the "credit crunch" have to do with the price of gas? Unless you rely on credit to buy your gas, there's not really a problem...

 

There is a massive doom and gloom thing going on in the uk at the moment. You can't watch the news without credit crunch this and world going-to-hell-in-a-hand basket featuring in one way or another. Yes, things are starting get more expensive I have noticed food, fuel and utility bills have risen sharply, we have had to be very careful in our house with money at present. Even so I can't help feeling the media are laying it on a bit thick at the moment