Wow, now that is what I call living the American Dream...except you  
aren't in America..haha.  What an awesome arrangement and a fantastic  
idea.


Linda Macaulay




On Mar 23, 2009, at 2:05 PM, Tamar Raine wrote:

> wow, deri, that is excellent!
>
>
> Thanks,
> Tamar
>
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Deri James <[log in to unmask]>
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> Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 10:52:56 AM
> Subject: Voluntary Redundancy
>
> On Sunday 22 March 2009 02:42:01 Tamar Raine wrote:
>> Deri, what's voluntaey redundancy? what does your company do?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tamar
>
> Hi Mags,
>
> I've worked in the Finance Sector for 23  years (before that I was  
> in the
> Civil Service). For most of that time I've worked for small/medium  
> sized
> companies (up to 500 staff), and I worked my way up to Associate  
> Director
> level. Unusually, for that grade, I had no staff who reported to me, I
> preferred solving technical issues rather than management!!
>
> 5 years ago we got taken over by a large bank (Barclays), who  
> proceeded to do
> the usual strategy of "letting go" all back room staff and middle/top
> management. So, practically all my colleagues in IT were eventually  
> made
> redundant. However, because of Disability Employment law in the UK,  
> they could
> only make me redundant in very particular circumstances.
>
> Big businesses work very differently from small/medium companies.  
> Rather than
> having a few very good people who can tackle  any challenge  
> (usually on a shoe
> string budget), big banks employ whole armies of "experts" who are  
> masters of
> their own very narrow domain, and money was no object. The bank  
> didn't really
> know what to do with me since a lot of work is done by phone  
> conference (which
> is no good for me!!), so I ended up doing virtually nothing (but  
> receiving a
> salary as though I was still a director ;-) ).
>
> Two and a half years ago I'd had enough of doing nothing (unless a  
> catastrophe
> happened - when the "experts" would come looking for help). So I  
> went to half
> time working (17.5 hours a week) and even on half pay I was earning  
> a lot more
> than the national  average.  I spent the other half week developing  
> a system
> to do volume colour printing, aiming at the big Utilities and Finance
> companies who have to produce bills/statements for millions of  
> customers. My
> system turned out to be up to 10 times quicker than many current  
> systems, so I
> set up a company, but instead of selling the software, I sold a  
> click licence
> for the use of the software (so every page they print I receive a  
> small fee).
> Some of my customers are printing 10 million pages a year.
>
> So, when the Bank offered me a generous redundancy package I  
> voluntarily
> agreed to it,  as opposed to them forcing me to be redundant.
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Deri
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