Need a job stat - anything. Edinburgh.

[Famous Graham]

Just been made redundant - company's been liquidated and we're not getting paid next week for this month.

Merry fking Christmas.

So, if anyone's got anything in the Edinburgh area (preferably central as I have about 50p in the entire world so will be walking anywhere).

[Proxy]

Ah man, that sucks
I hope you get something sorted soon!

[hidetheelephants]

Can you drive 7.5tonners? I could pass your name to a transport company a friend works for; they are snowed under at the moment. It might just be temporary though, with VAT going up.

[Famous Graham]

Never have, no. Ta for the thought though.

(ETA - I assume that's above the weight you need a specific licence category for?)

Edited by Famous Graham on Thursday 18th November 17:26

[M1KEY]

Sorry to hear that. See from your profile you're in IT - any particular area?
Best of luck with finding something soon.

[omgus]

Temp shelf stacking - overnight in the run up to xmas. Sorted me out at short notice one year.

Good luck with the hunt.

[anonymous-user]

Famous Graham said:

Never have, no. Ta for the thought though.

(ETA - I assume that's above the weight you need a specific licence category for?)

Edited by Famous Graham on Thursday 18th November 17:26

IIRC If you have an old style licence you can drive 7.5 tonners, just nothing bigger.

ETA apparently if you obtained your licence before 1997 then you'll have category C1 on your licence meaning you can legally drive 7.5 tonners, I know someone who drives one with little experience and he commented it's like driving a luton van, except you take corners wider and brake earlier, piece of cake for a PH-er.

Edited by anonymous-user on Thursday 18th November 17:50

[Famous Graham]

M1KEY said:

Sorry to hear that. See from your profile you're in IT - any particular area?
Best of luck with finding something soon.

Support arena, generally - can do MS stuff (desktop/server) standing on my head. Was IT Manager for a couple of SMEs over the last 4 years or so.
This job, and the one at the beginning of the 00s, was more website/ecommerce oriented - Unix, Oracle etc. Infrastructure through to the odd bit of tactical development (perl, php, javascript etc etc). Official title here was Operations Engineer, but I'd only been there 4 months and had my eye on the Operations Manager role thanks to my background.

[hidetheelephants]

yellowbentines said:

Famous Graham said:

Never have, no. Ta for the thought though.

(ETA - I assume that's above the weight you need a specific licence category for?)

Edited by Famous Graham on Thursday 18th November 17:26

IIRC If you have an old style licence you can drive 7.5 tonners, just nothing bigger.

ETA apparently if you obtained your licence before 1997 then you'll have category C1 on your licence meaning you can legally drive 7.5 tonners, I know someone who drives one with little experience and he commented it's like driving a luton van, except you take corners wider and brake earlier, piece of cake for a PH-er.

Edited by yellowbentines on Thursday 18th November 17:50

What he said; if you got your licence prior to 1/1/97 you have it automatically. The company depot is either Newbridge or Livingston(they moved, but I can't remember from where to where IYSWIM).

If desperate you could get temporary work with the Royal Mail; they take on thousands at this time of year for the rush. It's deadly dull, but you can get double shifts if you ask for them and it was £7.20/hr the last time I did it(2007). The shift manager even offered me a place on their grad scheme!

Edited by hidetheelephants on Thursday 18th November 18:29

[Famous Graham]

yellowbentines said:

Famous Graham said:

Never have, no. Ta for the thought though.

(ETA - I assume that's above the weight you need a specific licence category for?)

Edited by Famous Graham on Thursday 18th November 17:26

IIRC If you have an old style licence you can drive 7.5 tonners, just nothing bigger.

ETA apparently if you obtained your licence before 1997 then you'll have category C1 on your licence meaning you can legally drive 7.5 tonners, I know someone who drives one with little experience and he commented it's like driving a luton van, except you take corners wider and brake earlier, piece of cake for a PH-er.

Edited by yellowbentines on Thursday 18th November 17:50

I do indeed have a 91 licence with a C1 on it. If you could pass my details along, I'd appreciate it - I'll drop you a PM.

[Proxy]

We're looking for perl developers atm in my work - but we're in East Kilbride, Glasgow
Hope you sort something soon.

[anonymous-user]

hidetheelephants said:

Can you drive 7.5tonners? I could pass your name to a transport company a friend works for; they are snowed under at the moment. It might just be temporary though, with VAT going up.

Graham, you've PM'd the wrong person (i.e. me), you want this chap above!

[Famous Graham]

Oops!

Good start to my new job hunting career

[stevenr]

Famous Graham said:

Just been made redundant - company's been liquidated and we're not getting paid next week for this month.

Merry fking Christmas.

So, if anyone's got anything in the Edinburgh area (preferably central as I have about 50p in the entire world so will be walking anywhere).

Wasn't ROK was it by any chance? I got the very same from them this week.

[Famous Graham]

No, small VC'd tech firm.