Are you recession proof

[Zizou]

I work for an online retailer and we've seen growth slow a little but we're still on target for around 20% growth for 2009/10. Which is actually better than growth was for 2008/09.

I wouldn't say we are recession proof though, I think if the economy had been in better shape we'd have probably seen upwards of 25% growth this year.

[yazooo]

I work for Shell oil and am not completely safe. Everyone is having to re-apply for their job, with approx 10% having to go one way or the other. Being a laser physicist there isn't much I can actually do

[super mike]

I work for Shell oil and am not completely safe. Everyone is having to re-apply for their job, with approx 10% having to go one way or the other. Being a laser physicist there isn't much I can actually do

Find a rich psychopath that wants lasers engineered into/onto animals so he can take over the world?

[Over Carl]

I work for a contractor in the construction industry and I'm on the IT team.

Company's doing well - was in the red quite deep but came out at the end of last year. While competitors have been cutting back, we haven't had one redundancy. We normally are doing 10-12 projects at a time and I was a little concerned we were down to 6 about a month ago but we're back up to 9 with two about to start so all seems good. They've also branched out in two related directions.

Thinking about myself - all our kit is supported by an outside company who aren't doing the best of jobs. My boss has so much actual management to do that he doesn't get much time for IT. Which leaves me. Amongst doing my bit supporting 150 odd users and installing/removing kit spread over 10 sites, I'm slowly learning the ropes and finding problems that have been there forever and sorting them, as well as bringing loads of cost savings. Even if I didn't have to support anyone, I have enough work on my plate to keep me going for I reckon 4-6 months. Don't see them getting rid of me soon!

[willp2003]

i work for thr NHS in IT and i think i'm fairly safe. there's some useless cunts i wish they'd get rid of though, but they never will.

got a nice email pat on the back the other day from the IT manager, so i replied saying "worth a pay rise then! " and he said "my future is bright"

happy days - well it will be when i finally get a promotion

[lloydi]

im fairly sure we are recession proof, we produce millions of barcode labels for pathology departments in NHS hospitals up and down the country, people are always gonna need blood tests etc

[Greyfox]

im fairly sure we are recession proof, we produce millions of barcode labels for pathology departments in NHS hospitals up and down the country, people are always gonna need blood tests etc

Indeed they are, had two myself the other week

[the.insane]

got my own taxi cab, so we'll see what happens

[Simate]

I was in car sales and we all know that is far from recession proof, 13 months on and still no job.

[Mr.James]

Work in IT as well. Although the company has suffered a great deal in the past it's never made a loss and is still on for breaking it's profits record.

I'm pretty much untouchable there now (famous last words lol). I've been put 'in a pool' about half a dozen times meaning my job is at risk and a 'points scoring' system will be used to determine the people that are made redundant from that pool.

Each time I've been summoned to a directors office before the redundancies have been announced and forewarned that I would be in the pool but not to apply for other jobs as I wouldn't be getting the chop...

[FourRings]

I'm an engineer in the merchant navy working on container ships mostly. We started to notice the decrease in trade a good few months before any talk of a recession was around and its only got worse from then on. There are ships laid up all over the world, thousands in Singapore, and i'm off to crew one of them at the start of November. We've seen working ships crew numbers fall from an average of 30 in 2005 to the bare minimum allowed by law (around 13) at the moment...only 4 officers per ship are required on the laid up ships. Its a fight to get onto a ship and be 'safe' for the next three months.

So no, I'm certainly not recession proof and the voluntary redundacy letters came around last week.

[CeeJay]

I work for a IT company. We are currenty recession proof due to some huge contracts we have at the moment

And what happens when one or more of these companines you have a huge contract with goes bust?

[crazyal]

Work in IT for the Local Authority. Although I work in a team of 9, I'm the only one primarily looking after 3 servers and 300 PC's. I suppose no-one is bulletproof, but I can't see them getting rid of me just yet

[cronus71]

I work in IT, and by no means do I see my job as recession proof. Though I have to say the company would be crazy letting me go now, as I rank in $4m - $5m each quarter from just one customer. They could of course replace me, but for the replacement to bring in that revenue would take at least 2 or 3 quarters, so why risk it.

[Simate]

I work in IT, and by no means do I see my job as recession proof. Though I have to say the company would be crazy letting me go now, as I rank in $4m - $5m each quarter from just one customer. They could of course replace me, but for the replacement to bring in that revenue would take at least 2 or 3 quarters, so why risk it.

I'm cheaper and I'd get it up to $5-$6m each quarter so I'm well worth the risk

[4me2]

I work in procurement for an airline (purchasing 747 components).

We came out of administration in June after being baught out by rich arabs who get cheap fuel (they own that too). They are part of a Swiss consortium who also own lots of private hospitals.

Normally should be well out of danger now but we are not because we still have the wanker management team who bust us the first time around.

In the last couple of weeks we have spent well over a quarter of a million dollars changing 6 fuel pumps on one single aircraft. Then two costly fuel valves and it turned out the fault was a fucking lose cable connection.

Consequencies for useless Aircraft techicians and managers who kept signing the off the purchase orders ? a big fat zero.

Result for the rest of the employees ? A 20% pay cut because the flying hours were not achieved .

CUNTS the lot of them !!!!!!

[Hangman]

I work for a large IT reseller and although the profession is not ressesion proof, I am yet to miss my target and as the only one i'm in a pretty comfortable position.

Ressesion is not good but at least it does allow companies to get rid of the crap usless staff. I know lots of good people have lost there jobs too and I'm not being unfeeling about it, but feel if you are good you will get another job quickly.

[Mr.James]

I work in IT, and by no means do I see my job as recession proof. Though I have to say the company would be crazy letting me go now, as I rank in $4m - $5m each quarter from just one customer. They could of course replace me, but for the replacement to bring in that revenue would take at least 2 or 3 quarters, so why risk it.

You work in I.T. and make 4m-5m per quarter for ONE customer? How much you charge and what service do you provide? I must be in the wrong job!

Simple math means you charge just under £2,100 per hour (based on a 24-hour working day) over those 3 months... How you find time for working at more than one customer especially when you don't even have time to sleep?

[big man]

I'm a developer, and being that i've been through redundancy once already in the last year (voluntary - hated my job and colleagues, and was very naive as to the state of the job market as it was about the time everyone was realising that thing's were fucked) i'm not counting my chickens

I now work in the casting industry, and we have a massive user base all paying relatively small amounts, in an effort to find them work, so finger's crossed, i should be safe

[Tattooed Freak]

I work in Market Data for a large bank that recently announced huge losses. I'm not recession proof but there is plenty of dead wood in line to get the sack before me. Its amazing that people still piss around at work and don't give a fuck if they under perform.