I've been stuffed 4 times.
1. They sold the business unit I ran to Coalite and TUPE'd me. I left after 3 months. Coalite was a disgusting enterprise, it folded a few years later.
2. The owner of the small business I worked for retired and his partner bought him out and made me redundant.
3. The company I worked for bought the business mentioned in 2. above and I later found out a condition of the deal was that they got rid of me. Redundant again.
4. The company I worked for was bought by the company that sold me to Coalite and moved me into a non job. I stuck it out for almost 3 years before retiring at 66 on health grounds.
I now work as a consultant, self employed, mostly for private equity funds. They are generally about as sincere as a Politician. I am very glad I'm now 100% in control of what I do.
