Credit crunch has officially affected me!

[Immenseman]

The pub I work in is closing as of next week therefore I am now just another unemployment statistic.

[scottish]

Owned........ :P

I don't work so its all good (H)

[Immenseman]

lol it's alright i'm looking forward to the first lay in for agessssssssss next week :D i knew it was coming because she laid off all the staff last week, i was the last one to go haha

[buttons]

oh dear lol 2 restaurants just closed here with like no warning at all

[Immenseman]

my boss has to declare herself bankrupt she's got loads of court orders against here and stuff she was telling me i didn't know what to say lol

her life is broken basically and she was telling me and it's like wth do you say in this situation!!

[GommeInc]

Just seek comfort in knowing they hired you for eye candy behind a bar ;)

The High Street in a town near me is beginning to become empty. Woolworths is gone and the M&S Simply Food next door to that might be leaving soon.

[--ss--]

Awww :(
I hear the Dirty Duck Pub have oppenings!

[Jackbee]

Awww :(
I hear the Dirty Duck Pub have oppenings!

omg!
lol..

[Geraint]

I thought it was because you can longer afford credits on habbo. :(

[myke]

Aw, that sucks :(

gl finding a new one

[Kardan]

So many shops in our city centre have closed and the streets are so emtpy compared to normal :(

[xxMATTGxx]

Yeah this credit crunch sucks :(. Hope you find a new job soon =]

[Alkaz]

Without woolies and primark my town would be like a ghost town :P thank god for primark, you go in their and the manager is like 17 LOL

Anyway gl with a new job jake.

[Wayne]

Don't worry, you'll find a new job. :P

[PaulMacC]

no hc for me this month either.

[Jack.Lfc]

no hc for me this month either.

Sorry to hear that.

[Immenseman]

lol the habbo credit crunch hasn't affected the filthy rich :lol:

thanks to people who were nice :')

[Dan2nd]

urrg that sucks luckily I'm still employed in fact I'm getting a pay rise as of next month (not to rub it in)

[Metric1]

Awww luv, come work for me!

[Clowgon]

The pub I work in is closing as of next week therefore I am now just another unemployment statistic.

No need to worry, if you become skint like **** you could always sell a few "Thrones" on Ebay. :eusa_whis :P

[Mexel]

The pub I work in is closing as of next week therefore I am now just another unemployment statistic.
Was it a brewery? I was with Spirit group untill last month and it had not affected them at all, now im with Whitbread and they say there still doing fine aswell!

[Pyroka]

M&S is keeping 25 food stores open, and 2 smaller stores open nationwide I THINK. Its just what I heard from my mate who lost his job at M&S, his store got shut down. :P

Next, New Look &... Debenhams I think, are the only companies whose statistics for Like-for-Like profit have increased (in comparison with last years christmas shopping). *dances*

[today]

M&S is keeping 25 food stores open, and 2 smaller stores open nationwide I THINK. Its just what I heard from my mate who lost his job at M&S, his store got shut down. :P

Next, New Look &... Debenhams I think, are the only companies whose statistics for Like-for-Like profit have increased (in comparison with last years christmas shopping). *dances*
Next are actually not doing as well as everyone thinks.

Head Office have laid orders to all stores to make staff do bare min hours required no extra as they simply cant afford it.

[Pyroka]

Next are actually not doing as well as everyone thinks.

Head Office have laid orders to all stores to make staff do bare min hours required no extra as they simply cant afford it.

Yeah you're right actually, I just googled Next Like for like profits and they're down 7%... I swear my Store manager told me Next were up LOL. Oh dear. Primark are up because it's Primark yaknow, uhm.. yes.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/jan/06/new-look

*Dance* LOL I'm such a bragger. It sounds more like Debenhams and Next took a hammering than anything... I musn't have heard him right. :< Primark are up 4% in like-for-like sales. River Island haven't published any Matty, whassup widdat?!

[today]

Yeah you're right actually, I just googled Next Like for like profits and they're down 7%... I swear my Store manager told me Next were up LOL. Oh dear. Primark are up because it's Primark yaknow, uhm.. yes.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/jan/06/new-look

*Dance* LOL I'm such a bragger. It sounds more like Debenhams and Next took a hammering than anything... I musn't have heard him right. :< Primark are up 4% in like-for-like sales. River Island haven't published any Matty, whassup widdat?!
I work for Next, or i did. From saturday i dont.
Yup, they had to let me and seven other staff go simply due to not being given the funding to employ staff, thanks headoffice!

So Next are making dramatic cutbacks quickly too.

[Pyroka]

I work for Next, or i did. From saturday i dont.
Yup, they had to let me and seven other staff go simply due to not being given the funding to employ staff, thanks headoffice!

So Next are making dramatic cutbacks quickly too.

I think Matalan are next to go.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/matalan-reports-sales-fall-of-9-495056.html

That article is from 2005, so you can imagine the state they might be in now. ¬_¬ USC are closing down pretty soon, and so are Zavvi by the looks of things. I think Cult...

http://www.retail-week.com/Property/2008/11/cult_clothing_owner_steps_up_uk_growth.html

is one big shocker if you ask me. Next year they won't be rolling in it, oh mark my words.

Btw Matty, thats bad budgeting by Head office. They don't need to cut back on staff, all they need to do is shrink the hours of others. Where I work, I'm one of 5 people who works all day Saturday and all day Sunday, everyone else gets 4 hours. I'm expecting my hours to be cut soon, even though we still have money left in the kitty that we're spending on our staff room LOL.

[today]

Give it a year or two, and hardly any retail stores will be left.

[Pyroka]

I edited my post, and yeah you're right there I think most companies will go to the wall or migrate to the internet. The UK large shopping centres will be the only places to shop, and small malls will become housing estates. Thats how I see it.

[today]

I think Matalan are next to go.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/matalan-reports-sales-fall-of-9-495056.html

That article is from 2005, so you can imagine the state they might be in now. ¬_¬ USC are closing down pretty soon, and so are Zavvi by the looks of things. I think Cult...

http://www.retail-week.com/Property/2008/11/cult_clothing_owner_steps_up_uk_growth.html

is one big shocker if you ask me. Next year they won't be rolling in it, oh mark my words.

Btw Matty, thats bad budgeting by Head office. They don't need to cut back on staff, all they need to do is shrink the hours of others. Where I work, I'm one of 5 people who works all day Saturday and all day Sunday, everyone else gets 4 hours. I'm expecting my hours to be cut soon, even though we still have money left in the kitty that we're spending on our staff room LOL.
Our hours got cut to 4 hour shifts manly, however it made no difference really.
We was meant to have 3 staff on Womens Wear, 3 On Childrens and two on mens, it is now mainly 2 on ladies, one or two if your lucky on childrens and one on mens.

Made no difference, simply bad headoffice planning really. But hey, what can we do about it.


I edited my post, and yeah you're right there I think most companies will go to the wall or migrate to the internet. The UK large shopping centres will be the only places to shop, and small malls will become housing estates. Thats how I see it.
Yeah, i see the internet being the focus for shopping soon.

[Pyroka]

Our hours got cut to 4 hour shifts manly, however it made no difference really.
We was meant to have 3 staff on Womens Wear, 3 On Childrens and two on mens, it is now mainly 2 on ladies, one or two if your lucky on childrens and one on mens.

Made no difference, simply bad headoffice planning really. But hey, what can we do about it.

Yeah, i see the internet being the focus for shopping soon.

We have 2 massive Next's in Exeter, they could shut down one of them and I don't think they'd notice as one of them is central, and one of them is way out of the way, where all the small businesses are. How big is your store, because that is not alot of staff in one store...

Head Offices suck don't they? Hehe, they'll probably reading us talking now :D

[today]

We have 2 massive Next's in Exeter, they could shut down one of them and I don't think they'd notice as one of them is central, and one of them is way out of the way, where all the small businesses are. How big is your store, because that is not alot of staff in one store...

Head Offices suck don't they? Hehe, they'll probably reading us talking now :D
We have quite alot of staff but its all 4 hour shifts now, due to cut backs, used to be all days and maybe odd one or two doing a 4 hour shift.

We also cut back our opening and closing times to
9:30 to 5:30 instead of 9:00 to 6:00.

[Pyroka]

We have quite alot of staff but its all 4 hour shifts now, due to cut backs, used to be all days and maybe odd one or two doing a 4 hour shift.

We also cut back our opening and closing times to
9:30 to 5:30 instead of 9:00 to 6:00.

Why the hell are they cutting back opening & closing times? The amount of rent they pay will be the same, the amount of money they earn will be less. Do they think they'll save more money on cutting back 1 hour? That really is bad planning by head office. :S

It was sorta expected the whole laying off of staff, everyones gonna start doing it eventually. Does your store have day targets and Next card targets?

[today]

Why the hell are they cutting back opening & closing times? The amount of rent they pay will be the same, the amount of money they earn will be less. Do they think they'll save more money on cutting back 1 hour? That really is bad planning by head office. :S

It was sorta expected the whole laying off of staff, everyones gonna start doing it eventually. Does your store have day targets and Next card targets?
We have store targets which we dont reach often. Normally were down a 2-3 grand.

I know, that's what we didnt get why close eailer when you still pay the same rent, your loosing even more money now.

[partie2]

The pub I work in is closing as of next week therefore I am now just another unemployment statistic.

I feel your pain the same has happened to me :(

[Pyroka]

We have store targets which we dont reach often. Normally were down a 2-3 grand.

I know, that's what we didnt get why close eailer when you still pay the same rent, your loosing even more money now.

Wow, I looked at my store report on Saturday (week ends on Sat, starts on Sun) and we had gone over our weekly target by about 3k, and that didn't even count what we had earned on the day. O_o

Yeah they're not saving nay money on staff... except an hour perhaps, but some staff are bound to stay a bit longer, our work just flings out hours on-the-spot depending on how much needs to be done lolol. It's well funny, I just decided on Sunday that I felt like earning an extra 30 quid... you know, because I can!

Stuff like this actually happened in Primark though tbh, we had to get our hours tightened and they wern't giving out much overtime (they used to give out LOADS), because they had to meet their budget...

[Immenseman]

ah well im just looking forward to staying in bed

[today]

Wow, I looked at my store report on Saturday (week ends on Sat, starts on Sun) and we had gone over our weekly target by about 3k, and that didn't even count what we had earned on the day. O_o

Yeah they're not saving nay money on staff... except an hour perhaps, but some staff are bound to stay a bit longer, our work just flings out hours on-the-spot depending on how much needs to be done lolol. It's well funny, I just decided on Sunday that I felt like earning an extra 30 quid... you know, because I can!

Stuff like this actually happened in Primark though tbh, we had to get our hours tightened and they wern't giving out much overtime (they used to give out LOADS), because they had to meet their budget...
Yeah its strange, past two weeks we've been in the minus each day due to all the returns we've had from sales. Which has had a affect on us as a store and company.

[Pyroka]

Yeah its strange, past two weeks we've been in the minus each day due to all the returns we've had from sales. Which has had a affect on us as a store and company.

Seriously? :O We've been in the plus all the time... wow, I doubt Debenhams are doing much better though are they hehe. I'd be worried for all the big names like Wallis and Jane Norman. I heard from an employee at Karen Millen that they've been told their company is going to go under Administration soon, but they're not plastering the windows with Sale banners because they reckon themselves as 'too posh for that'.

Jane Norman will be next, then Reiss, then Moss Bros. I could bet on this stuff LOL.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/jan/10/mosaic-fashions-iceland-retail

[today]

Seriously? :O We've been in the plus all the time... wow, I doubt Debenhams are doing much better though are they hehe. I'd be worried for all the big names like Wallis and Jane Norman. I heard from an employee at Karen Millen that they've been told their company is going to go under Administration soon, but they're not plastering the windows with Sale banners because they reckon themselves as 'too posh for that'.

Jane Norman will be next, then Reiss, then Moss Bros. I could bet on this stuff LOL.
As i said, everyone thinks Next is doing better then people think, which is not the case.

Specially when i'm doing Best Sellers the figures for the top twenty items, total costing and profits, have gone down so much to what they used to be, its shocking.

[Immenseman]

thanks for talking about your jobs in my unemployment thread guys :'(

[Pyroka]

As i said, everyone thinks Next is doing better then people think, which is not the case.

Specially when i'm doing Best Sellers the figures for the top twenty items, total costing and profits, have gone down so much to what they used to be, its shocking.

Omg serious? Our best sellers are like... lol alot of profit much xD We only do the top 10 items, plus top 3 items from each department because its easier to figure out really. My god though, wowowowowow.


thanks for talking about your jobs in my unemployment thread guys :'(

LOL Sorry jake we hijacked your thread, we are sorry you lost your job now go get a job in millets. :D

[Immenseman]

I just want to be a bum for a bit thnx. :D

[Pyroka]

Youll regret that when all the jobs are going in March time for the summer!!!!!

[Immenseman]

yeah but my bank account is healthy and i want to go to parties and not worrying about getting up for work etc:D

[Pyroka]

Ohhh ok then, if you've got the money to last you then go ahead, take a gap month :P:P Lucky bugger!!!

[today]

Can i join jake, you pay fee's though.

deal.

thanks.
love you.

[Immenseman]

no gerrout u cheeky so and so

[today]

no gerrout u cheeky so and so
but but but, dont you love me?

[Immenseman]

only if you're rich

[today]

only if you're rich
come find out!!

[leah]

lol it's alright i'm looking forward to the first lay in for agessssssssss next week :D i knew it was coming because she laid off all the staff last week, i was the last one to go haha
lmaooo she blates loves you