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Our parent company put themselves up for sale in order to exapand late last year and finalised a deal with one of the two remaining contenders meaning we moved over to the new company in May or there abouts.
A few departments were doomed as they already had pay roll HR etc things like businesses especially a large one like our new lot.
We were 50/50 depending on which of the two took us over, one dealt with volume catering and saw us as a distribution centre if nothing else, thing is we had won contracts from them as their food was deemed crap or words to that effect.
So the one with no catering arm whatsoever takes us over, we are relieved, jobs secured, future bright, hell a chance to expand and we did, we got two new drops soon after, but we might have been doing that before anything was sorted between our old and new owners.
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A few months agp loosing company having the same access rights to our company info as a whole, talks to the winning one and offers to undercut us even though alot of our existing contracts used to be theirs and they left due to the lack of quality, they start making deals (nothing finalised).
We get a meeting organised by our department head telling us of this underhand shenanigans, but nothing is certain and that loosing customers to us might be a red flag to them in the deal.
I was off for another meeting held by the MD of the UK or whole company (I don't know), this one was called as the others and word on the grapevine were inconclusive and oftimes conflicting.
I asked what the out come was and for each person asked I got a different answer, so much for clearing up the confusion the waters are muddier than ever, but most felt we would be a skeleton crew of a distribution hub and nothing else.
We had a more recent meeting and our dept head said that he felt we would close by end of January just short of my full 9th year working there full time (some had worked longer but started off as agency so that time would not count).
The loosing company is willing to address customer concerns re quality and other issues and if most of our customers still reject their new and improved food, they might still go ahead as what we have although being our whole business to us, is small fries to both of the companies.
He is pretty sure 95% I think his number was, that we had no chance of continuing as we are, even if all our customers rejected the other's food, afaik they would just be told to start offering the contract out to the other's in the field.
TBH I'm not really worried, yes I will be out of a job, but as long as I don't quit or get fired between now and the close of business, I get 8 years of redundancy, again almost 9 years there but I won't even get fractions of the 9th.
We all (or atleast those I've spoken to) agree that they should sort it out asap and close us before christmas, so we could have a decent chrimbo off for a change, I have worked most if not all christmas days since starting there and no one gets a chance to book leave over the holidays.
The kitchen staff are the only ones not to work on the 25th as we close the kitchen then and on the 1st, but they have to work extra hours to get a day ahead in production, this year due to the extra contracts we have, have very little space to work with to do it this way, so we probably will be working as if it was a normal day (going home at 10pm for the evening pickers).
My biggest concern is "What if they don't close us?" I have already started making plans to go back to school, I left failing most of my exams due to a shitty 3rd-5th year when I changed schools and I would like to take some day/night classes in digital video, but the one ive seen seems to be getting in the industry where as I just want to "get better at it than point and shoot" and tbh the redundancy money is already being mentally spent on a decent video PC and camcorder (as well as putting down 6 months rent in advance.
and 9 years in a fridge as a one trick pony, my job skills probably limit me to just pushing shopping carts around as being a University city, people like applicants to have letters after their names for anything over uncomplicated.
Our parent company put themselves up for sale in order to exapand late last year and finalised a deal with one of the two remaining contenders meaning we moved over to the new company in May or there abouts.
A few departments were doomed as they already had pay roll HR etc things like businesses especially a large one like our new lot.
We were 50/50 depending on which of the two took us over, one dealt with volume catering and saw us as a distribution centre if nothing else, thing is we had won contracts from them as their food was deemed crap or words to that effect.
So the one with no catering arm whatsoever takes us over, we are relieved, jobs secured, future bright, hell a chance to expand and we did, we got two new drops soon after, but we might have been doing that before anything was sorted between our old and new owners.
end BG
A few months agp loosing company having the same access rights to our company info as a whole, talks to the winning one and offers to undercut us even though alot of our existing contracts used to be theirs and they left due to the lack of quality, they start making deals (nothing finalised).
We get a meeting organised by our department head telling us of this underhand shenanigans, but nothing is certain and that loosing customers to us might be a red flag to them in the deal.
I was off for another meeting held by the MD of the UK or whole company (I don't know), this one was called as the others and word on the grapevine were inconclusive and oftimes conflicting.
I asked what the out come was and for each person asked I got a different answer, so much for clearing up the confusion the waters are muddier than ever, but most felt we would be a skeleton crew of a distribution hub and nothing else.
We had a more recent meeting and our dept head said that he felt we would close by end of January just short of my full 9th year working there full time (some had worked longer but started off as agency so that time would not count).
The loosing company is willing to address customer concerns re quality and other issues and if most of our customers still reject their new and improved food, they might still go ahead as what we have although being our whole business to us, is small fries to both of the companies.
He is pretty sure 95% I think his number was, that we had no chance of continuing as we are, even if all our customers rejected the other's food, afaik they would just be told to start offering the contract out to the other's in the field.
TBH I'm not really worried, yes I will be out of a job, but as long as I don't quit or get fired between now and the close of business, I get 8 years of redundancy, again almost 9 years there but I won't even get fractions of the 9th.
We all (or atleast those I've spoken to) agree that they should sort it out asap and close us before christmas, so we could have a decent chrimbo off for a change, I have worked most if not all christmas days since starting there and no one gets a chance to book leave over the holidays.
The kitchen staff are the only ones not to work on the 25th as we close the kitchen then and on the 1st, but they have to work extra hours to get a day ahead in production, this year due to the extra contracts we have, have very little space to work with to do it this way, so we probably will be working as if it was a normal day (going home at 10pm for the evening pickers).
My biggest concern is "What if they don't close us?" I have already started making plans to go back to school, I left failing most of my exams due to a shitty 3rd-5th year when I changed schools and I would like to take some day/night classes in digital video, but the one ive seen seems to be getting in the industry where as I just want to "get better at it than point and shoot" and tbh the redundancy money is already being mentally spent on a decent video PC and camcorder (as well as putting down 6 months rent in advance.
and 9 years in a fridge as a one trick pony, my job skills probably limit me to just pushing shopping carts around as being a University city, people like applicants to have letters after their names for anything over uncomplicated.
and I thought the woman did too but she was back today as it was just a holiday, why it couldn't wait till march is beyond me unless it was a family crisis type thing ... saying anything other than hello would be pushing it as she's still on my "wouldnt piss on you if you were on fire" list and I don't want to get into disaplinary issues this close to the end by saying something like that, the guy would have to improve his standing to even make it onto that list.
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