Voluntary Redundancy

[vetran]

I'm being offered the chance to take unpaid leave. Good job I'm not a grown up otherwise I would be told to take unpaid leave.

but I'm taking couple of weeks of sunshine off!

[FarmerPalmer]

It'll be about the statutory minimum, so £5 or 6k ish.

Plus I'd lose 4 years of pension contributions.

It's a bit tricky really.

Depends how much they want to reduce the payroll to the bottom of the scale again for the newbie, though that's only about £2.5k ish IIRC.

If you want to and can afford to retire go for it, otherwise for that I'd hang in there.

When I got VR it was a lot more than that, I wouldn't have applied at statutory minimum.

[BrilloPad]

Mostly coz I'm not moving this fecking lab for a 3rd time.

It's heavy, man, really really heavy.

That would be all the "esteemed customers" you have killed and stored. Better get eating them....

[MarillionFan]

This is the longest I've tolerated any job.

Plus I've got gate fever.

But at 61, it's not likely that I'll work again.

I don't think R*ch*rd J*yce has much in the way of embedded software engineering/electronics on his books.

Mech eng, on the other hand.

To be fair, you've not been doing too much work anyway.