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[redelitev6]

Just an update on this, I spent the morning with the parking control guys and the job seems a lot better than i thought it would be ,couple of things suprised me ,one being everyone gets a 5 minutes grace period before tickets are issued,the software on the ticket machines won't allow a ticket to be issued until this period has expired .My little legs were knackered after a mornings walk ! something i'll have to get used to if I get the job.

[Radar]

I would look at your outstanding mortgage (if applicable) and any savings you may have. From this you can work out what you have to live on and your outgoings. Do a quick calculation. Personally i would take the reduncancy (and see if you can negotitate it up?) and take my chances thereafter. Does the type of work you are currently in permit you to offer your services back to the council (or other establishments) on a consultancy / self employed basis?

[redelitev6]

I would look at your outstanding mortgage (if applicable) and any savings you may have. From this you can work out what you have to live on and your outgoings. Do a quick calculation. Personally i would take the reduncancy (and see if you can negotitate it up?) and take my chances thereafter. Does the type of work you are currently in permit you to offer your services back to the council (or other establishments) on a consultancy / self employed basis?

If anything redundancy will get less as the terms are being changed , as for offering my services back to the council,they are cutting back on all the work i was involved in ( homes modernisation) and have plenty of staff left in post

[YZ250]

Have to say i've been suprised by the positive comments about the job ,I would have thought that line of work would have caused more reaction!

I think the lack of reaction to the type of job is down to the seriousness of the current climate and people accepting that a job is a job. 

Good luck and remember the rules, no tickets on omega's, especially black one's. 

[Entwood]

I think most folks actually accept the need for Traffic Wardens, even if they won't admit it....  I have had the misfortune to try and work in an area where it became common knowledge that one warden did 5 towns, and the days he was in each was also known.

It was almost impossible to move in the towns on the days he was not there, idiots parking anywhere. Trying to get an LGV to a shop to deliver goods became impossible .... eventually the police got involved and issued a great number of tickets.. and the councils woke up and employed a few more wardens.

If folks used their brains/obeyed the rules there would be no need for wardens ....  unfortunately not everyone has/uses their brains. Like the transport manager who would not schedule deliveries for the days when the warden WAS on duty as that involved some work by him.

My foray into the world of Transport lasted a whole 7 weeks .. luckily the military had paid for my LGV training so it was not my money that was wasted ... but with idiots like that I just got out, and have stayed out, and now the LGV has lapsed as I would not pay for the medical  for something I wasn't going to use 

[jimac]

And to build on Entwood's comments, seeing as you're in Newcastle see if you can get posted to Gosforth High Street to move on all those gits who stop to go to the cash machines and cause havoc.  (It's a very busy road with two lanes in each direction and double yellows, but people think it's OK to stop for a few minutes at their bank or grab a pasty from Greggs and block the inside lane).  I've even seen a bus driver get out of his bus to go and use a cash machine there - oh, and the council employees who stopped their van to go and put a bet on at the bookies!

[YZ250]

I'm on the point of being made redundant from the council after 23 years service ,at nearly 52 i've got no illusions about my employment prospects in the building industry,however,here's the rub, i have the chance to be re-deployed as a Traffic warden , never thought i'd be in such a position but with mortgage etc i'm up a well known creek without a paddle , do i swallow my pride and go for it or take my redundancy and hope for the best. What would you chaps do ?

And to build on Entwood's comments, seeing as you're in Newcastle see if you can get posted to Gosforth High Street to move on all those gits who stop to go to the cash machines and cause havoc.  (It's a very busy road with two lanes in each direction and double yellows, but people think it's OK to stop for a few minutes at their bank or grab a pasty from Greggs and block the inside lane).  I've even seen a bus driver get out of his bus to go and use a cash machine there - oh, and the council employees who stopped their van to go and put a bet on at the bookies!

Have to be careful. That council employee might be the OP of this thread. 

[smithpa7]

And to build on Entwood's comments, seeing as you're in Newcastle see if you can get posted to Gosforth High Street to move on all those gits who stop to go to the cash machines and cause havoc.  (It's a very busy road with two lanes in each direction and double yellows, but people think it's OK to stop for a few minutes at their bank or grab a pasty from Greggs and block the inside lane).  I've even seen a bus driver get out of his bus to go and use a cash machine there - oh, and the council employees who stopped their van to go and put a bet on at the bookies!

My local High Street. I am in regular email contact with my local Libdem councillor(Nick Cott) to see what they can do to sort out the numpties
He may as well try and earn my vote before the May election, even though I am still undecided

[redelitev6]

Nowt wrong with traffic wardens, people only have a go at them because they know they've done wrong, can't accept it, and try to project their wrongdoing onto them.

BTW I know of someone crying out for skip lorry drivers in Sunderland, he just can't get the drivers for one reason and another. I'd take it as a second job but I've got too much on atm.

Assuming you've got at least C1? Some travelling though.

No C1 although i was considering it if all else fails ,have been quoted around £1300 to get through test

Just thought if you'd done 23 years at in current job might've passed test before 97/98 whenever it was in which case i thought grandfather rights apply? not sure as i passed my test after then.

Oh well, thought it might've helped, never mind, good luck finding a job.

Nah , the buggers moved the goal posts last year ,got to be at least 55 to get anything now, the days of "gold plated" public pensions have gone

No i'm talking about driving tests not pensions

You are right got C1 on license
 so long since i past test(1978) never gave it a second look!

[Vamps]

Nowt wrong with traffic wardens, people only have a go at them because they know they've done wrong, can't accept it, and try to project their wrongdoing onto them.

BTW I know of someone crying out for skip lorry drivers in Sunderland, he just can't get the drivers for one reason and another. I'd take it as a second job but I've got too much on atm.

Assuming you've got at least C1? Some travelling though.

No C1 although i was considering it if all else fails ,have been quoted around £1300 to get through test

Just thought if you'd done 23 years at in current job might've passed test before 97/98 whenever it was in which case i thought grandfather rights apply? not sure as i passed my test after then.

Oh well, thought it might've helped, never mind, good luck finding a job.

Nah , the buggers moved the goal posts last year ,got to be at least 55 to get anything now, the days of "gold plated" public pensions have gone

No i'm talking about driving tests not pensions

You are right got C1 on license
 so long since i past test(1978) never gave it a second look!

Must be little skips then, I have driven skips in the past and they were HGV, or whatever it is called now....

On the other point, I would take the Job, you have 3 years protected salary, only 1 year in these parts in this new situation, as I understand.. Your redundancy money will soon go if you are not working and have to pay the Mortgage..........It is always easier to get another job when in work, I understand....and think positively, my job is even more unpopular that a traffic warden, and no I am not the tax man.....

[paul.lovejoy]

Nowt wrong with traffic wardens, people only have a go at them because they know they've done wrong, can't accept it, and try to project their wrongdoing onto them.

BTW I know of someone crying out for skip lorry drivers in Sunderland, he just can't get the drivers for one reason and another. I'd take it as a second job but I've got too much on atm.

Assuming you've got at least C1? Some travelling though.

No C1 although i was considering it if all else fails ,have been quoted around £1300 to get through test

Just thought if you'd done 23 years at in current job might've passed test before 97/98 whenever it was in which case i thought grandfather rights apply? not sure as i passed my test after then.

Oh well, thought it might've helped, never mind, good luck finding a job.

Nah , the buggers moved the goal posts last year ,got to be at least 55 to get anything now, the days of "gold plated" public pensions have gone

No i'm talking about driving tests not pensions

You are right got C1 on license
 so long since i past test(1978) never gave it a second look!

Must be little skips then, I have driven skips in the past and they were HGV, or whatever it is called now....

On the other point, I would take the Job, you have 3 years protected salary, only 1 year in these parts in this new situation, as I understand.. Your redundancy money will soon go if you are not working and have to pay the Mortgage..........It is always easier to get another job when in work, I understand....and think positively, my job is even more unpopular that a traffic warden, and no I am not the tax man.....

Vamps your really part of the admin team

i would take the job gives you more options and lets face it building trade is on its knees blah blah. As said when your in work it seems easier to get another job I got laid off from being a contracts manager some 4 years ago company went tits up went for lots of interviews and applied for hundreds of jobs the pay drop alone was very excessive ended up starting my own building works again small scale but only becuase i am lucky enough to have a good rep. But i disspair at times at the things you have to do or accept to earn a wage but i have been very lucky to be busy

and totally honest if i could get out the trade i loved so much i would its not what it used to be it just usally saddens me

so something fresh and new could be a very good move and more options

best of luck with it all

[jimac]

And to build on Entwood's comments, seeing as you're in Newcastle see if you can get posted to Gosforth High Street to move on all those gits who stop to go to the cash machines and cause havoc.  (It's a very busy road with two lanes in each direction and double yellows, but people think it's OK to stop for a few minutes at their bank or grab a pasty from Greggs and block the inside lane).  I've even seen a bus driver get out of his bus to go and use a cash machine there - oh, and the council employees who stopped their van to go and put a bet on at the bookies!

My local High Street. I am in regular email contact with my local Libdem councillor(Nick Cott) to see what they can do to sort out the numpties
He may as well try and earn my vote before the May election, even though I am still undecided

You have my sympathies.  And you might want to tell Nick Cott that you now know of at least one person who no longer shops in Gosforth because of the traffic chaos.  It's just not worth the hassle. 

[redelitev6]

Just a quick update, went for job interview today and looks like the job could be mine , just needs offical confermation , as one door closes another one opens as the saying goes 

[GastronomicKleptomaniac]

Just think - you could be the traffic warden we'd all want to be dealing with - "oi, mate, yourtickets up, shift before I ticket you"... best of luck!

[geoffr70]

Nowt wrong with traffic wardens, people only have a go at them because they know they've done wrong, can't accept it, and try to project their wrongdoing onto them.

BTW I know of someone crying out for skip lorry drivers in Sunderland, he just can't get the drivers for one reason and another. I'd take it as a second job but I've got too much on atm.

Assuming you've got at least C1? Some travelling though.

No C1 although i was considering it if all else fails ,have been quoted around £1300 to get through test

Just thought if you'd done 23 years at in current job might've passed test before 97/98 whenever it was in which case i thought grandfather rights apply? not sure as i passed my test after then.

Oh well, thought it might've helped, never mind, good luck finding a job.

Nah , the buggers moved the goal posts last year ,got to be at least 55 to get anything now, the days of "gold plated" public pensions have gone

No i'm talking about driving tests not pensions

You are right got C1 on license
 so long since i past test(1978) never gave it a second look!

Must be little skips then, I have driven skips in the past and they were HGV, or whatever it is called now....

On the other point, I would take the Job, you have 3 years protected salary, only 1 year in these parts in this new situation, as I understand.. Your redundancy money will soon go if you are not working and have to pay the Mortgage..........It is always easier to get another job when in work, I understand....and think positively, my job is even more unpopular that a traffic warden, and no I am not the tax man.....

social worker?