To leave or not to leave ???

[fng]

As you say only you can answer....... me ? ........ i'd toss a coin ..... heads stay tails go.... when it lands on either heads or tails see what you very first gut reaction is ? if its "s**t ive got to stay" or "s**t i've got to leave" then you will have your answer

[fishtank]

You can't make a wrong decision in life because you don't get to see down the other path....leave or stay...it doesn't really matter just make the best of whatever you choose to do and don't look back.

[Cheetah]

Full time perm with just over 6 years in. As you may have seen in the media Jaguar Landrover are recruiting and I have been offered a job, and I know only I can answer the above question but...... just wanted some input really

I had a few friends who went to Jaguar, some 15 years back when we were all made redundant by our last employer..... One has ended up as a senior manager, with an excellent salary and a nice company Jag to drive round in. Another one stayed on the shop floor..... They all love it...... wished I'd have gone with them..... Jaguar from their experience is a fair employer, there are prospects to better yourself as Bob found out (he was an ordinary mechanic at our last job), they value their employees and are only taking on because the brand is going from strength to strength...... No Brainer for me, if the terms and conditions fit I'd be gone .....

[wandle]

At the risk of being a doom-and-gloom merchant, the probability has to be that mail, as a method of communication, will continue to decline, which can only mean further job cuts in the future The one area of growth that Royal Mail has, packets, is under attack from unfair competition and developments in buying habits. Instead of buying cds and books, people increasingly download mp3s and e-books (to devices like Kindle and Kobo readers). Even the buying/renting of dvds by post is coming under pressure from sites like NetFlix, as streaming to TV or PC grows in popularity. If you take a job at Jaguar and somewhere down the line you get made redundant, you would at least have skills you could take to another car-maker.

On balance, I'd say take the Jaguar job.

Donna Bunk,
Head of the Escape Committee.

[elstree]

Tommase,

The option is always yours???

As some of the lads have said, we up the pros and cons, but I think you have already made up your mind.

Good luck

[fishtank]

Donna Bunk,
Head of the Escape Committee.

Wasn't that Squadron Leader Roger "Big X" Bartlett?
Was Donna Bunk his "Friday night name"?
I've heard that about those RAF boys.
Hiding fom tbt.

[dvbuk55]

Donna Bunk,
Head of the Escape Committee.

Wasn't that Squadron Leader Roger "Big X" Bartlett?
Was Donna Bunk his "Friday night name"?
I've heard that about those RAF boys.
Hiding fom tbt.

I've often wondered why they called him BIG X and why they were called brylcreem boys and.....was it really brylcreem

[ilikepostmen]

Don't go, the grass is not always greener on the other side, just remember why you joined in the first place. That job you've been offered could be a few months only, then what ? redundancy?.

[DirtyHarry]

Full time perm with just over 6 years in. As you may have seen in the media Jaguar Landrover are recruiting and I have been offered a job, and I know only I can answer the above question but...... just wanted some input really

You will never know how much I envy you, mate.
If I was you, I'd get out while I could.
Royal Mail is a God-awful employer that doesn't try to hide the fact,that it seems to hate it's own employees. It's on a downward spiral, and the future looks nothing but very bleak for the poor sods slaving away in it.
GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN, YOU LUCKY, LUCKY, BARSTEWARD.

[BillyPosty]

I would say leave

[Cliff Clavin]

End of march for me, subject to checks/refs.

Will miss majority of colleagues, but game is well and truly f****d now :(

I'm sure it used to be good when it was a public service with no dsa, just seems to be a dread now.

[dvbuk55]

In my opinion there are too many variables to make good advice possible. Six years is really not that long so you haven't invested a great deal of time and if you are in the pension fund you have the choice to leave it or invest it somewhere else. Now the real answer lies with you. We make decisions throughout our life, some good, some bad and some indifferent, the one thing that is sure there's no going back once committed.

[protect us]

I cannot (none of us can ) live your life for you or decide it !!! But if the new job looks it will last a while then LEAVE !!! This job sadly has had it now ! When I joined the way forward had just started but it should have been called the way backwards as ever since that's all we have done ! Good luck mate - dont worry too much , if things don't work out something else will and to be honest it will be no worse than this job is going - I was proud to be a postman (still am myself ) but sadly the company dont recognise or respect that ! - sad very very sad -

[TrueBlueTerrier]

Donna Bunk,
Head of the Escape Committee.

Wasn't that Squadron Leader Roger "Big X" Bartlett?
Was Donna Bunk his "Friday night name"?
I've heard that about those RAF boys.
Hiding fom tbt.

I've often wondered why they called him BIG X and why they were called brylcreem boys and.....was it really brylcreem

In real life Big X was actually Squadron Leader Roger Joyce Bushell (Bartlett was the name of the character played by Dickie Attenborough).

@ dvbuk Better than being called Pongoes - where the Army goes the pong goes.

[fishtank]

In real life Big X was actually Squadron Leader Roger Joyce Bushell (Bartlett was the name of the character played by Dickie Attenborough).

I'm not going to take the piss out of the real guy though teebs...he was murdered by the Gestapo FFS.
Dickie Attenborough is a Chelsea fan...that makes him fair game.