Working Mummies Support Group #2

**Kazbah** · April 28th, 2014, 07:46 PM

Good luck for tomorrow wysiwyg

beansbeans, that sounds very difficult. We have "all roles flex" at work, but I prefer not to work at home as there always seems to be a 3-yr-old head stuck in my lap.

Me - well, one of the reasons I've been away is not coping with working full time and managing the renos, moving house etc. We've moved house and stuff is starting to settle. My job is OK except the place doesn't "feel" good. I'm looking for another role within the same company, and I have a second interview for that this Friday.

**wysiwyg** · April 28th, 2014, 09:34 PM

Good luck for Friday Kazbah - and welcome back also.

I am having the collywobbles a bit about tomorrow, about whether I will be prepared to go up to four days for this job - I have checked and I could get daycare for the Fridays but I love Fridays, I do Forest Kinder and all sorts of other fun stuff - we don't have any commitments on a Friday and I would lose that - Tuesday I would also have off, but DD has swimming and an art class those days so is more restrictive.

What will be will be I suppose - maybe they will be mad keen to save money and only want me three days a week. Maybe the job will sound rubbish and I won't want it, I would love a few weeks off, but opportunities only come when they come. At least they have said that I will know what is what by end of tomorrow or early Wednesday.

**MummyNaomi** · April 28th, 2014, 10:00 PM

Well I guess I better find a new thread - one titled "Redundant Mummies Support Group"

Totally devastated. Am in the 'anger' stage atm. How dare they?? My whole centre is closing. Too many people I love including our best friends (married couple) are also gone. 14 years for what??

And we have to keep it under wraps until Wednesday.....

**wysiwyg** · April 28th, 2014, 10:20 PM

Oh no MN - I had my fingers crossed it wouldn't happen. That really really sucks.

**Astrid** · April 29th, 2014, 12:56 PM

Oh no MN!

**sahbear** · April 28th, 2014, 10:24 PM

Oh big hugs MN

I was made redundant 2 months before I started mat leave in November last year (completely above board from them, though sounds dodgy!) but I remember that angry stage all to well, it does get better but let it all out.
I felt much better after a few days of tears x

**Teeki** · April 28th, 2014, 10:26 PM

I'm so sorry MN

Big hugs, I hope you get through ok.

Best of luck for tomorrow wysiwyg! And for Friday Kazbah!

**Beautiful Disaster** · April 29th, 2014, 07:06 AM

Oh no that's terrible MN. Will it be easy for you to get another job?

**wysiwyg** · April 29th, 2014, 08:59 AM

Interview cancelled as interviewer sick - rescheduled for Thursday morning - I was just getting dressed, hadn't left yet thankfully. Bit of a pain in the neck but at least they managed to fit me in on Thursday as were asking for Friday and would have been tricky with the kids.

**MummyNaomi** · April 29th, 2014, 09:41 PM

Oh no that's terrible MN. Will it be easy for you to get another job?

I just dont know..... Have only just started to look to see whats out there. I think I will struggle to find a similarly paid role. Based on my tenure (14 yrs) and performance I am high on the renumeration scale. Entering another workplace I would potentially enter at the bottom of the scale again. The other issue is I currently have flexible work arrangements with a work from home day and an RDO to help balance family life. I'll lose that. A new employer is unlikely to offer that to me. I only have it based on my tenure etc

Today we have had confirmed that the redundancies will be rolling, and will commence in July, ending in November. I anticipate that I could well be one of the last men standing so to speak, as my role is a bit different and more complex than the others, who knows though

If we leave prior to the redundancy period (e.g. July) then its viewed as a resignation, no redundancy pay, after that dependant on when we are required till, we may be able to take our redundancy early if we find a job earlier, HR will confirm. I won’t be leaving without a redundancy pay, I would be stupid to leave earlier.

I am going to go full time in the interim, so I am paid out as a full timer, and to increase my income in the interim, I am devo though, I miss precious time with DD while she’s little. I hadn't planned to work full time until she started school. I feel terrible that I am making this decision based on money.

I am devo, I cant stop crying. This is just terrible. 14 years of service for what? Tomorrow we have to tell our people. The job cuts were announced on the radio today - WTF?? I had two of my people ask me if we were affected. I had to lie and say I didn't know. I hate this. Tomorrow we destroy the lives of about 70 more people. Our Leadership group is just shattered, at least we wont have to keep it a secret any longer

**wysiwyg** · April 29th, 2014, 10:31 PM

I am going to go full time in the interim, so I am paid out as a full timer, and to increase my income in the interim, I am devo though, I miss precious time with DD while she’s little. I hadn't planned to work full time until she started school. I feel terrible that I am making this decision based on money.

You aren't really making it based on money, you are making it based on what is best for your family in the long term - this full-time work will give you more money so you will be in a better position to make decisions in the future. I would do exactly what you are doing - it is maximum 7 months? but the impact of the money lost by not going -full-time could last much much longer.

**Mumma T** · April 29th, 2014, 01:48 PM

Oh big hugs MN that sucks. I was made redundant on returning from mat leave last year, if you need help or advise on getting a new job I am happy to share what I know.

Wysiwyg -what a pain for the delay but glad you could get another time quickly

**sahbear** · April 30th, 2014, 08:02 AM

Just coming back in it say big big hugs MN, what an absolutely crap situation.

**Kazbah** · April 30th, 2014, 06:51 PM

wysiwyg - good luck tomorrow!!!! knock them out!

**MummyNaomi** · April 30th, 2014, 08:14 PM

They would be mad not to take you wysiwyg

**wysiwyg** · April 30th, 2014, 08:47 PM

They would be mad not to take you wysiwyg

That is true :-) but there is a lot of madness in the world - I might not like the sound of it when I get there anyway that is always a possibility - and given it isn't going to be a great commute - it will have to live up to what I want to take it. Will only be a 3 month contract but likely to go for 9 apparently, but if they want four days a week - the first 3 months I will be working for nothing virtually because of the cost of childcare due to what I have already earned this financial year, and rebate will have hit ceiling - if it can get me into a new area though it will be worth it I think, the software will be using - there is hardly anyone in Australia trained/with experience in using it (you have to go to South Africa or England for a course) - the software won't be that difficult but given recruitment agents are so set on having experience in the exact software (they don't seem to believe in transferable skills) then it would be good to have on CV.

MN - more hugs from here, and from DH too (as a former employee of your company he had noted the developments in the paper etc).

**wysiwyg** · May 1st, 2014, 11:58 AM

Well it went well I think - and sounds like 3 days might work too :-) - Should know by end of tomorrow. Commute isn't going to be great but I think will be worth it - is a pharma company - so it sort of felt like home.

**Astrid** · May 1st, 2014, 01:01 PM

Hope you get the contract wysiwyg.

Just over work at the moment. Thought I was just the one receiving the brunt of anti part-time sentiment from of the staff members, but one of the others has been copping it worse than me! Not sure how to deal with, other than pull up the culprit when she does it. Try to be polite as much as I can, but wont let her get away with it.