If you're looking for a job at the moment, or if you're suspicious about your employer's long-term prospects, take heed:
'The experience of watching a business disintegrate has taught me quite a few things. If I ever go for another job interview, it won't be the training opportunities and the staff canteen arrangements I'll be asking about; I'll be requesting to see the balance sheets and to have a long chat with the company accountant. I'll be asking exactly how much guaranteed business is coming in in the next six months, what contingencies are in place in case a client drops out of the picture, whether there are savings to cover salary payments in the event of an emergency: all things I would never have considered it necessary to ask before.'
All these things are essential questions to ask at interview, or at your annual appraisal, or you may come to regret it very soon...
Read the Bureauista's complete post here.
13 comments:
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It’s a shame politicians forced banks starting back in the 80s to give home mortgages to poor people who weren’t credit worthy enough. Then, they just started lending mortgages way beyond many people's credit abilities. That’s where all this mess started. And also that they didn’t regulate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac like they do other banks.
Alan Greenspan should be exposed for the problems he helped cause by allowing credit quality to be ignored.
Scary, will sanity ever prevail?
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if money were free
it would have no value
- extreme inflation
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ignore credit scores
give everyone homes
- like musical chairs
to deny a mortgage
must be due to racism
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absurd thought -
God of the Universe says
forgive all debts
settle all accounts
no one owes anything
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absurd thought -
God of the Universe says
make housing costs look cheap
go paint a rosy picture
just get people to sign up
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USpace
:)
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As long as they keep paying my pension, I'm happy.
*Saunters away, looking smug*
USpace: Yes, well done, we could all copy and paste the same comment into every blog that mentions the credit crunch if we wanted to. And if we had a lot of spare time.
Dave: That's the spirit.
'Pension'? What is this 'pension' of which you speak?
For 28 days now, I have been a pensioner. It is a wonderful life.
*mugs Dave*
*gives James an ASBO*
A pensioner, I should add, who retired early, so is still young and supple. And has a light sabre.
*Chops James in half*
Ooh bugger, I thought it was a light fitting.
*does that slowly sliding in half thing*
Wow, there's more action on here than on TV at the moment
*eats popcorn, waits for Patroclus to avenge James*
i'm due to negotiate another contract any day now - great timing, huh?
This is frighteningly wise..
Oh oh oh Blue Kitten could be all Princess Leia-ish.
*munches popcorn*
(is it wrong to talk about people's actual children like this??)
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