verylittlehelps

Ah, I was a bit slow on that one 

i figured as much but i can dream lol

For clarity, I was being sarcastic. Not sure who's been pulling the leg of the guy who stated the rumour above me though. It's obviously been totally made up. It would make zero sense.

Where exactly has this info come from or is it just more rumours?

Not heard anything with it, be a good way to kill their profits though? Considering they are in the process of refitting them all lol

But I'd happily take redundancy same as colleagues at ours if they did but think got more chance of winning the lottery twice over.

Is there any more information on which shore are affected please?

Yeah, in a crazy move the board have decided to close hundreds of large profit making stores for no apparent reason which will also cost them a ridiculous amount of money in redundancy pay...

@LittleNomad, I'm very sorry for your loss.

This forum is such a valuable resource, it would be a loss to everyone if it went offline.

I can help! I have experience managing forums, including server administration, and I'd be happy to host this one. Here's how I propose we handle user data:

To ensure a smooth transition, user accounts with usernames and passwords would be preserved.

For user privacy, all emails could be permanently deleted during the transfer. We can discuss the option of deleting direct messages as well, depending on user preference.

@LittleNomad, since I can't DM, feel free to email me.

@lucgeo wish there was a way to archive or take over the site, a friend of mines actually has an i.t. Company and also the know how to do it, but alas wouldnt be of interest to him sadly, i do know about the partnership agreement and indeed policies for our people. But in this case anyway the definition as you already know of what unattended means still got twisted to suit the company agenda. I wont be pushing this one any further unless the employee insists as they still have rights to acas and tribunal, me helping tho would be much harder tho mainly due to this wonderful site and the people within it

@dfl
No I know you weren't mate 

I'm just going into as great amount of detail, concerning each scenario, as I can for future reference to anyone to note before this site closes.

Rules will change...new policies will come up...the partnership agreement will be eroded as much as they can get away with, what they've managed to get away with so far shows how little bite the agreement now has!

A lot of apathy from colleagues, little in the way of training and support for reps, USDAW more interested in spending money on award ceremonies for the chosen few in the clique and selling insurance...all working office hours Monday-Friday!


Many colleagues have never heard of the partnership agreement, or that policies for people are available to view online. They don't realise that the agreement was drawn up to protect their rights in exchange for giving up their vote to strike!