Woolies ,now the Builder Centre ...who next....

Lin · Woolies ,now the Builder Centre ...who next....

I hear with great sadness for the employees ,that the Builder Centre in Oxford Road closed this morning.Rumour(and it is that at the minute) is that the staff turned up for work this morning to find the business has shut.
My heart goes out to the employees ,who, now have a bleak outlook.I really feel for them having to cope with this devastating news just 3 weeks before Christmas and wonder who is going to be next.

ivan burit

Like you young Lin, i also feel sorry for them, the shock of it "actually happening to me" feeling of it all.
I have been there with the same thing, like many others in our country in the past.

It was a long dark 13 months untill i saw daylight at the end of a very dark long tunnel.
For us, it was the best thing that could have happened,
but for many - many other younger people who will not have the same chance i/we took,
it will be hard.
Just help and support them Lin, the roller coaster of emotions they go through is tragic to see sometimes, but just a little encouragement at times is worthwhile.
Thankfully (so we read) help is now available for those with mortgauge debts, but for a limited time,
i /we never had that, so good luck to those who now benefit from it.

kengrinch

ivan burit

OOOOOHHHH look behind yooouuuuu
its yalioo creeping up behind youuuu.

and like the pantomime fairy you are,
we all say......

Oh yes it is..

you say...

Oh no its not.....

then all us watching you all laugh very loudly......

amenity2

The garden centre on Parkeston roundabout closed last month, great shame I used it when I wanted sand and cement etc.

Funny how it seems that Christmas is the time to dump workers, must be a coincidence, or the banks (who pull the plug) want their Xmas bonus for the bosses.

ivan burit

Not forgetting amenity, that loss of a job before the time of good cheer, means the poor old worker gets no pay let alone the holiday pay they were waiting for.

Yes, its one of the saddest times of the year for some.

When you look on TV in the USA even, the long queues for a free hot meal get longer each time its shown.
How long before the long queues start over here.

kengrinch

And there gona make me work for my DHSS Laughing

amenity2

Well Ivan I think it's quite significant that the government is putting out the warnings that unemployed people should get out there looking for a job.

They know so many are being thrown on the scrapheap right now and its set to increase, they know exactly what they are doing stressing the workers, anything to deflect their responsibility in this matter.

It's all very well taking the credit when things are going "well" but denying responsibility when there not but it won't wash in the end.

All parties seem to have little idea what to do and that can only point to their inattention from their elected purpose.

This downturn come recession was clearly evident for the past two years and would have been detectable by the people 'in the know' several years before that. Lets not forget the likes of Enron that pointed up the crimes committed with pension fund money, nodded through by our leaders.

The problem is soaccustomed are they to this sort of activity and because they acknowledge 'they' are not clever enough to sort it out, hence the demise of the FSA.

An old link worth visiting

http://66.102.9.132/search?q=cach...en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=uk

ivan burit

Hmm interesting link amenity.
Its was as if they were prepaird to accept there would be a surge in monetary crimes, not just the odd few quid, but mega money moving into the wrong hands.?

amenity2

Don't you think it is very likely looking at the identities of the members of this group that they should have been in possession of the facts?

Look at the titles they carry for instance,

Chip Poncy
Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing
and Financial Crimes, US Department of the Treasury

I shudder to use this word 'WOW'