sxibeast
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Registered: 6th Aug 03
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hasnt really affected me, but my mate has been given two weeks unpaid leave from his building company. his dad is also roofer/builder, so he cant offer him any work at the mo either.
seems to have picked up some air conditioning installation job for the time being whilst he is off though, so not all bad
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Ecosse Sport
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Registered: 5th Jun 02
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My dad is hugely affected being a bricklayer. He has had to lower rates for the men that work for him and everything. Not good times. He is pricing up a whole site very very keenly, then being asked to drop it 9%. It then works out he has done all the brick and block work of the site for less than what 1 house retails at 
Yea my mate is a roofer and he's actually not had any work come through for about a month now
Wish he was closer, I'm having to wait six weeks to get a roofer to come.
I've been getting quotes from builders are they're all daft money as they're all so busy! I'm in aberdeen, if you know anyone that'll come and build a storey extension on the side of my house for less than £70k send them up!
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nova_gteuk
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Registered: 15th May 02
Location: South Wales Drives: The Bandwagon
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Seems to be loads of buinesses in my area going out of buisness lately.
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All Torque
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Registered: 17th Nov 05
Location: Milton Keynes Drives: Ford Focus TDCi
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My dad is roofer, no end of work for him 
But I used to be a painter and had to stop due to no work before Christmas time, everything really dries up around that time of year and after this year I expect it'll be twice as bad as last year 
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Mertin
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Registered: 12th Oct 05
Location: Scotland
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I work offshore as a mechanical maintenance technician so not really affected!
All depends if alot of things are broken down  But on my 3 weeks off I couldnt care 
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Ben G
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
Location: Essex
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don't notice it at work, production is booming as usual.
have to supply to mazda, volvo, ford, citroen and peugeot so no effect at all.
only thing that messed us up was the lorry drivers strike in spain.
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ed
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Registered: 10th Sep 03
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I know a few guys who work in the factorys that supply Honda with a few of thier parts. They are booming because of the speed of the Japanese economy. They are doing well!
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Ben G
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
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indeed, producing tens of thousands of engines at the moment for mazda (2,000 in 24 hours avg) and they can't get enough
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impish
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Registered: 15th May 05
Location: Crewe
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I work at a hospital...so no, no change  Everyone needs health care at somepoint.
But saying that, i'm hoping to get a morgage in a less than a year so i'll be well fooked then!
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KiKrusher
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Registered: 3rd Jun 08
Location: Lancaster
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I'm a mechanic and we've all noticed work has been slow in the last few months, shame my boss doesn't see this though and will not give any of us a pay rise
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Cosmo
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Registered: 29th Mar 01
Location: Im the real one!
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Business is booming for us, seems women dont understand finance and still want to spend a fortune on wedding dresses
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Ben G
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
Location: Essex
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£100 inbank account + Credit Card = Rich?
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RichR
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Registered: 17th Oct 01
Location: Waterhouses, Staffordshire
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TBH We're busier than ever with Tenders etc both UK and overseas based; but we supply Military and commercial users who will always have the money to spend; we got an order for 7 Phantoms this week at £280k each.
I design and build boats btw
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ed
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Registered: 10th Sep 03
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Originally posted by KiKrusher
I'm a mechanic and we've all noticed work has been slow in the last few months, shame my boss doesn't see this though and will not give any of us a pay rise
If everyone got the pay rises they are asking for then the Bank of England will rise interest rates even more making the whole situation worse. We're going through a rough patch and everyone needs to sit tight... It's tough for a lot of people though
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KiKrusher
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Registered: 3rd Jun 08
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But i'm slowly getting into more debt each week since food,bills etc went up i'm earning £50 less than my outgoings per week now even though I work a 52 hour week
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Ben G
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
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Originally posted by KiKrusher
I'm a mechanic and we've all noticed work has been slow in the last few months, shame my boss doesn't see this though and will not give any of us a pay rise
less work = less income.
why would your boss give people a pay rise if there wasn't enough income coming into the business?
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AndyKent
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Registered: 3rd Sep 05
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We're Building Surveyors with a small estate agency department.
Loads of work in surveying (thats me ) but little to do for the agents. Luckily a lot of work we do is for a small number of EXTREMELY loyal clients who always want stuff doing so we'll be fine.
Heard reports of other estate agents going from selling 40 houses per month down to 5! Hope it doesn't affect my bonus
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Andrew
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Registered: 5th May 04
Location: Skoda Octavia Estate, Ford Puma
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Our sales team have got off their arse and brought in some work for a change. We're busy enough at the moment. However, a techie down so that has probably helped.
We should get a pay increase around January. I moaned about fuel prices and got told to use the van more
[Edited on 21-06-2008 by Andrew]
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dannymccann
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Registered: 9th Aug 06
Location: Doddington, Lincolnshire
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I work at Tesco, probably the safest sector (PLC & Private) in the world to work for
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RCoughtrie
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Registered: 31st Oct 04
Location: East Ayrshire Scotland
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Just starting to see the effects with the house builder i work for.. agency workers are told not needed, workers less than 1 years service may lose jobs and the company is now doing appraisals to see who is dead wood.
Being a tradesman i can see it being quite a tough few months with crap sales of homes effecting how much we earn.
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Gregor
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Registered: 28th Nov 03
Location: Paisley, Renfrewshire
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Lost my job in April there , no work for us for some reason. (Im a joiner)
However I'm working for a different company now and because we are doing refurbs to old buildings , the work will always be there
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Bonney
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Registered: 14th Nov 04
Location: St Helens
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We was feeling it since about the end of march up until monday. Usually there is orders coming in for upto 40-60 window frames per day. That went down to 20-30 if we were lucky. At the minute, there has been a few big orders come in upto 100 per day, so really in theory it should balance itself out
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c20let
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Registered: 25th Jun 05
Location: Aberdeenshire Drives: VXR Astravan,Evo 9GT,mr2 tbo
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majorly affected.
most of our sites are stopping because the flats/houses arent selling.
away to be loads of pay-offs in the next couple weeks.
company is 1.7billion in debt 
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Adam-D
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Registered: 11th May 02
Location: Cheshire
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im ok ish, im skint but just need to sell somethings and i should be alright
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Graham88
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Registered: 16th Apr 07
Location: South East Kent Drives: E46 M3
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I work for London Underground so money is no object on there 
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