Holiday companies

[martauto]

Me and are lass were due to go to France /Spain in September with Sheerings who have gone into admin.
We are not alone in this and we would not have gone if we could have .
We should be covered for our £400 deposit, I refused to pay any more, but they were saying all was fine 24 hrs ago.
We all knew it would go this way but still to say things are OK ??

I hope they can sleep at night .

Mart.
(Old school I know)

[flybynite]

Hi Mart

It is difficult times for a lot of people but my experience of this is the people in these companies are the last to actually know things are going wrong and the first they know is when they turn up to work to locked doors.

Most genuinely believe things will pull through, right up until the plug is pulled because it is their job and their livelyhood and they have to believe it will get better right up to the point it does not.

It is right that people want to hold onto their money or get their money back but if too many people do this then many companies will not make it through the winter and people will have to adjust to a very different way of doing many things next year that they may not like.

Sometimes you have to fool yourself into believing things will get better just to get out of bed in the morning.

[Satan]

2500 people lost their jobs, will be hard until next year to find another job unless the drivers fancy being delivery drivers.

A lot of people don't realise that they are going to be jobless at the moment.

[kieran325]

I think some are treating this furlough as a long holiday without seeing the repercussions.

We’re heading into a major recession with countless job losses in all sectors and the tourism and hospitality is the first to be culled.

The furlough scheme was good for a short time help out but now it’s an extension of the things to come.

[kieran325]

I know a few Virgin Atlantic staff and they’ve been told that next week will be job losses.

[Satan]

I think some are treating this furlough as a long holiday without seeing the repercussions.

We’re heading into a major recession with countless job losses in all sectors and the tourism and hospitality is the first to be culled.

The furlough scheme was good for a short time help out but now it’s an extension of the things to come.

Too true, the furlough should have been set at enough money to tied you over and not to treat it as a jolly, when companies which have no income will be forced to pay 25% of the furlough themselves that is when the shit really will hit the fan, I do wonder if they can refuse so then the workers salary drops to 60%?

[martauto]

Hi Mart

It is difficult times for a lot of people but my experience of this is the people in these companies are the last to actually know things are going wrong and the first they know is when they turn up to work to locked doors.

Most genuinely believe things will pull through, right up until the plug is pulled because it is their job and their livelyhood and they have to believe it will get better right up to the point it does not.

It is right that people want to hold onto their money or get their money back but if too many people do this then many companies will not make it through the winter and people will have to adjust to a very different way of doing many things next year that they may not like.

Sometimes you have to fool yourself into believing things will get better just to get out of bed in the morning.

I was not having a go at the workers as you rightly say that they are the last to know.
As it happens now, They have entered Administration and the point of this was to highlight the fact that the "boss`s" knew this was coming off and still told us and the staff that all was going on as normal.
I`m down £1200 but that will be recovered but it`s such a loss for all the staff.

Mart.

[flybynite]

I was not having a go at the workers as you rightly say that they are the last to know.
As it happens now, They have entered Administration and the point of this was to highlight the fact that the "boss`s" knew this was coming off and still told us and the staff that all was going on as normal.
I`m down £1200 but that will be recovered but it`s such a loss for all the staff.
Mart.

Bad news for all and I hope your cash gets covered sooner rather than later as I fear the scheme that compensates this in its current form may be one of the victims of this crisis.

Having watched something like this from the sidelines my point is that often the 'bosses' are as much in the dark as everyone else and are trying to make it work as much as everyone else.

So many times these companies scrape through on the smallest of knife-edges where one wrong word would have been the end.

When it happens, it can be started by the smallest of things but the cascade of events involving banks and creditors take the decision out of the hands of anyone in the company and it can go from just about viable to completely finished in a matter of hours.

Sometimes there is no-one to blame, and that can be the hardest thing to take.

[martauto]

The bad part is that they were still selling for next year one hour before they went under, thats not good.

Mart.

[Satan]

The bad part is that they were still selling for next year one hour before they went under, thats not good.

Mart.

Thats the world of business for you Mart, BTW what are you doing dealing with a company that specialises for the over 50's, next you'll be booking a holiday with SAGA and going to Benidorm.......

[martauto]

The bad part is that they were still selling for next year one hour before they went under, thats not good.

Mart.

Thats the world of business for you Mart, BTW what are you doing dealing with a company that specialises for the over 50's, next you'll be booking a holiday with SAGA and going to Benidorm.......

You get to do that when your over sixty mate

Mart.

[Satan]

The bad part is that they were still selling for next year one hour before they went under, thats not good.

Mart.

Thats the world of business for you Mart, BTW what are you doing dealing with a company that specialises for the over 50's, next you'll be booking a holiday with SAGA and going to Benidorm.......

You get to do that when your own a Baur mate

Mart.

Okayyyyyy.............