Right, I’ve got a job that I enjoy, pays well, but for people I wouldn’t p*ss on if they were on fire. The company got bought out by a venture capitalist (dressed up as a management buy out) and they’re slowly but surely killing the place. They’ve doubled turnover but cut the profit by about 40%. Apparently this is a good thing? The company has got the ability to make a huge profit, but they want us to spend half our time filling in spreadsheets rather than doing what we actually do. I get about a gnats breath from telling them where to go daily, and to be honest it’s getting me down. What would you do?
Jack it, mate. Nothing particularly wrong with buyouts, as long as they don’t forget what made an enterprise worth buying in the first place, which it sounds like your lot have. Any poss of you (and maybe others) setting something else up in a similar field? Plenty of examples of that happening.
Self employed for 17 years here. Don’t need to take BS from people. Has it’s downfalls too, but you cope. The first 17 years is the worse.
We spend the bulk of our waking day at work, and (usually) 5 out of every 7 days working...... if the job is getting you down, that’s a helluva lot of time spent being miserable. Can you do what you do for another firm? Or can you find a way to make the job you enjoy better? Can you put up with it for another 10-20 years?! Or will the venture capitalists destroy it before then anyway? I guess I t depends how much the enjoyment and money compensate for having a crap management set up. Sounds like ‘not enough’ at the moment.
Look at the success of the FlyBe buy-out! Happens anywhere that venture capitalists appear, pull out profitable elements, load it with debt then kill it stone dead. If you can move elsewhere, or can sustain yourself/family for a while then jump. Life's too short and all that......
Come to East Grinstead and become a taxi driver it's great, nice people, nice countryside, nice pubs and fantastic fishing
If it’s making you unhappy then time for a change maybe. You are fortunate - you are not stuck there, you have options. Maybe a lads lads lads weekend by the Sea at the end of the month will bring clarity
Do you need an apprentice plasterer? Not sure what Doug's tea making skills are like but gotta be worth a punt....
No good asking me, I have told nearly everyone i have worked for where they can stick their jobs . Thats why I now work for me ! If I were you I would find something else before telling them where to go. Its not what I would do but its what you should !!
This ^ Many of Great Britain’s finest ideas have come at such social get togethers.....the blast furnace, the geography of the canal and railway systems, indeed they perfected the ability to roll plate steel at such a shindig. I have it in good authority that Alexander Fleming was wearing a mankini and a kiss me quick hat when he had his breakthrough and Tim Berners Lee was butt naked in the back of a riot van with only a pencil to his name. Emily Davidson was actually on a jolly with the rest of the girls to begin with.......
Sack em off, be happy. Unless of course you are close to retirement age, in which case just hang in there till you get the gold watch... This sterling advice is of course based on having no idea what you do, or your personal circumstances, but if you are having to ask the question, it's time to move on. Good luck
There always another angle. You could simply kill all the people you don’t like at work, you’d need to vary the methods, obviously, so it doesn’t look suspicious. But think what a great place it would be to work once you’ve bumped them all off. start making a hit list now, it’s important to have decent disposal sites already prepped cos boy do they start stinking quickly. You can cut down the need to dig so many shallow graves and visit so many pig farms at night if you can make a few look like accidents or suicides. can you tell why I work for myself?
