How worried should I be?
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Warning: Covid related thread
I work in an "Essential Industry", an Accident Repair Centre. However I was furloughed right at the start and still at home, to make matters worse I was asked to not come in for about a week before the furlough scheme started as there simply wasn't anything for me to do.
The site gets a weekly welfare call and the latest one talked about how the site is still struggling for work despite massively increasing the radius in which they cover. Thankfully they are basically guaranteed work as it is owned by an insurance company but are currently operating at under 50% capacity, you can't repair cars if there are no cars to repair!
My direct boss, the Parts Manager, has been in right from the start and had hell with suppliers shutting down.
Basically, how worried should I be? I'm seriously worried that I simply won't have a job to return to but then again I overthink and worry about absolutely everything. Financially I'll be fine, however it took me a year to get the job I'm currently in as I left my previous one after 5 weeks so employers thought I had no commitment. I worry that my CV showing somewhere I was at for 5 weeks then somewhere for less than 2 years makes me a non-existent candidate (I did say I overthink and worry everything)
Sorry if it doesn't make sense, grammar and proper English is not at the top of my mind writing something on a forum about whether I'll have a job or not in the future!
Edited to say: I know nobody will be able to give a definitive answer as they don't know enough information about my finances, work ethic etc.
I work in an "Essential Industry", an Accident Repair Centre. However I was furloughed right at the start and still at home, to make matters worse I was asked to not come in for about a week before the furlough scheme started as there simply wasn't anything for me to do.
The site gets a weekly welfare call and the latest one talked about how the site is still struggling for work despite massively increasing the radius in which they cover. Thankfully they are basically guaranteed work as it is owned by an insurance company but are currently operating at under 50% capacity, you can't repair cars if there are no cars to repair!
My direct boss, the Parts Manager, has been in right from the start and had hell with suppliers shutting down.
Basically, how worried should I be? I'm seriously worried that I simply won't have a job to return to but then again I overthink and worry about absolutely everything. Financially I'll be fine, however it took me a year to get the job I'm currently in as I left my previous one after 5 weeks so employers thought I had no commitment. I worry that my CV showing somewhere I was at for 5 weeks then somewhere for less than 2 years makes me a non-existent candidate (I did say I overthink and worry everything)
Sorry if it doesn't make sense, grammar and proper English is not at the top of my mind writing something on a forum about whether I'll have a job or not in the future!
Edited to say: I know nobody will be able to give a definitive answer as they don't know enough information about my finances, work ethic etc.
How much of the downturn in business was COVID related?
If the company was struggling pre-epidemic then I can't see how things are going to get any better. However if the slowdown in damaged cars was due to the fact people were in lockdown then, theoretically, once lockdown has been fully lifted, you should be back to normal.
If the company was struggling pre-epidemic then I can't see how things are going to get any better. However if the slowdown in damaged cars was due to the fact people were in lockdown then, theoretically, once lockdown has been fully lifted, you should be back to normal.
Shermanator said:
Warning: Covid related thread
I work in an "Essential Industry", an Accident Repair Centre. However I was furloughed right at the start and still at home, to make matters worse I was asked to not come in for about a week before the furlough scheme started as there simply wasn't anything for me to do.
The site gets a weekly welfare call and the latest one talked about how the site is still struggling for work despite massively increasing the radius in which they cover. Thankfully they are basically guaranteed work as it is owned by an insurance company but are currently operating at under 50% capacity, you can't repair cars if there are no cars to repair!
My direct boss, the Parts Manager, has been in right from the start and had hell with suppliers shutting down.
Basically, how worried should I be? I'm seriously worried that I simply won't have a job to return to but then again I overthink and worry about absolutely everything. Financially I'll be fine, however it took me a year to get the job I'm currently in as I left my previous one after 5 weeks so employers thought I had no commitment. I worry that my CV showing somewhere I was at for 5 weeks then somewhere for less than 2 years makes me a non-existent candidate (I did say I overthink and worry everything)
Sorry if it doesn't make sense, grammar and proper English is not at the top of my mind writing something on a forum about whether I'll have a job or not in the future!
Edited to say: I know nobody will be able to give a definitive answer as they don't know enough information about my finances, work ethic etc.
Appreciate it is a worrying time for many, but you’ve said you will be financially ok so does this take some of the worry away ? If you loose your job, apply for another, simple I know lots of people in the same boat you just have to think positive and make the best of a bad situation. Is your current role so perfect that you would not want to do anything else ? Don’t worry about the cv - makes little odds just explain the situation to any new prospective employer, I work in an "Essential Industry", an Accident Repair Centre. However I was furloughed right at the start and still at home, to make matters worse I was asked to not come in for about a week before the furlough scheme started as there simply wasn't anything for me to do.
The site gets a weekly welfare call and the latest one talked about how the site is still struggling for work despite massively increasing the radius in which they cover. Thankfully they are basically guaranteed work as it is owned by an insurance company but are currently operating at under 50% capacity, you can't repair cars if there are no cars to repair!
My direct boss, the Parts Manager, has been in right from the start and had hell with suppliers shutting down.
Basically, how worried should I be? I'm seriously worried that I simply won't have a job to return to but then again I overthink and worry about absolutely everything. Financially I'll be fine, however it took me a year to get the job I'm currently in as I left my previous one after 5 weeks so employers thought I had no commitment. I worry that my CV showing somewhere I was at for 5 weeks then somewhere for less than 2 years makes me a non-existent candidate (I did say I overthink and worry everything)
Sorry if it doesn't make sense, grammar and proper English is not at the top of my mind writing something on a forum about whether I'll have a job or not in the future!
Edited to say: I know nobody will be able to give a definitive answer as they don't know enough information about my finances, work ethic etc.
Lots of people are losing their job because of COVID so your "less than two years" won't stand out.
Leave the 5-week job off your CV entirely now, it's three years ago so long enough and short enough to be irrelevant; at just 5 weeks out of the 57-weeks between your current job and the previous-but-one role it's only 10% of the time, and only 3% of the total time since your pre-5-week role.
If the place you work at only does accident repair, have they not considered doing servicing and general repairs? Lots of backlog to get through once people start driving again - loads of cars that will have seized brakes etc. You are allowed to do "something else" while on furlough so maybe go round offering basic mobile mechanic services (assuming that you were a mechanic of course!). Unsticking brakes, jump starting batteries - the stuff for which people would otherwise being paying £100s to a recovery firm.
Leave the 5-week job off your CV entirely now, it's three years ago so long enough and short enough to be irrelevant; at just 5 weeks out of the 57-weeks between your current job and the previous-but-one role it's only 10% of the time, and only 3% of the total time since your pre-5-week role.
If the place you work at only does accident repair, have they not considered doing servicing and general repairs? Lots of backlog to get through once people start driving again - loads of cars that will have seized brakes etc. You are allowed to do "something else" while on furlough so maybe go round offering basic mobile mechanic services (assuming that you were a mechanic of course!). Unsticking brakes, jump starting batteries - the stuff for which people would otherwise being paying £100s to a recovery firm.
Countdown said:
How much of the downturn in business was COVID related?
If the company was struggling pre-epidemic then I can't see how things are going to get any better. However if the slowdown in damaged cars was due to the fact people were in lockdown then, theoretically, once lockdown has been fully lifted, you should be back to normal.
All of it, apparently we were booked up for the next 3 months or something like that before it all kicked off. I do think of that theory and do take a little solace at it. Realistically I likely will be fine and I'm just overly worried for no reason!If the company was struggling pre-epidemic then I can't see how things are going to get any better. However if the slowdown in damaged cars was due to the fact people were in lockdown then, theoretically, once lockdown has been fully lifted, you should be back to normal.
RS93 said:
Appreciate it is a worrying time for many, but you’ve said you will be financially ok so does this take some of the worry away ? If you loose your job, apply for another, simple I know lots of people in the same boat you just have to think positive and make the best of a bad situation. Is your current role so perfect that you would not want to do anything else ? Don’t worry about the cv - makes little odds just explain the situation to any new prospective employer,
Yeah you raise a point, not having any kind of social life and living with my parents certainly helps to save more than average of my salary. Helping in times like this. Plus I'm currently getting the full 100% which helps.Job is fine, direct boss is hell
Can't take bad news without throwing a hissy fit (which in a parts department is a regular occurrence)I think I am being overly worried and should just relax a bit more.
Flooble said:
Lots of people are losing their job because of COVID so your "less than two years" won't stand out.
Leave the 5-week job off your CV entirely now, it's three years ago so long enough and short enough to be irrelevant; at just 5 weeks out of the 57-weeks between your current job and the previous-but-one role it's only 10% of the time, and only 3% of the total time since your pre-5-week role.
If the place you work at only does accident repair, have they not considered doing servicing and general repairs? Lots of backlog to get through once people start driving again - loads of cars that will have seized brakes etc. You are allowed to do "something else" while on furlough so maybe go round offering basic mobile mechanic services (assuming that you were a mechanic of course!). Unsticking brakes, jump starting batteries - the stuff for which people would otherwise being paying £100s to a recovery firm.
Never thought of that, only on there as otherwise it makes it look like I done nothing for well over a year after school. Will remove it now.Leave the 5-week job off your CV entirely now, it's three years ago so long enough and short enough to be irrelevant; at just 5 weeks out of the 57-weeks between your current job and the previous-but-one role it's only 10% of the time, and only 3% of the total time since your pre-5-week role.
If the place you work at only does accident repair, have they not considered doing servicing and general repairs? Lots of backlog to get through once people start driving again - loads of cars that will have seized brakes etc. You are allowed to do "something else" while on furlough so maybe go round offering basic mobile mechanic services (assuming that you were a mechanic of course!). Unsticking brakes, jump starting batteries - the stuff for which people would otherwise being paying £100s to a recovery firm.
I'm a Parts Apprentice! Can barely change oil in my MGB without it failing, although I am learning and understanding so much more every day, well was, only thing I'm learning now is how Twitch, Netflix etc work
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