Good luck mate. Something tells me you'll land on your feet whatever way it goes. Surely BritishExpats owes you a tidy sum for keeping the ME forum going singlehandedly for the last 5 or 6 years (well maybe with the occasional assistance of Millhouse's tiny little baby fingers)?

Thanks, hopefully don't need to. Guess I'll know this week.

Millhouse and I are the dreamteam, let's face it.

Quite a popular holiday destination for the Aussies. Generally quite a pleasant place, Cyclones permitting...

I'm sorry old boy. Been in your shoes a few times. The downsides of working in AEC. The anxiety is no fun even if I survived. I remember back in 2009 everyone being canned left and right and orders were 1 out of every 3 had to go. Then another mini-cull in 2013. And now there's rumblings of another one this year no matter what the CEO says about how strong the backlog is and I'm thinking I'm too old for this shit.

Only because 1) China lied and 2) USA is much bigger than anyone else. On a deaths per million basis it's 375 for Spain, 322 for Italy, 215 for France, 160 for the UK and 67 for USA.

Isolate New York City from the US tally, the US would be far lower.

Small hands.....

Cheers, we'll see what happens. I got told by a colleague that it was happening, so guess I have to wait and see. It's hard being 2 months into a new job and company to show you're good and that you shouldn't fall victim to 'last in, first out'. Such is. We'll see.

I'll keep my fingers crossed for you Scamp

Come on. In the Middle East, rumours of mass sackings occur on a weekly basis. I lost count of the number of times people my rank were "lined up," including once, at a specially convened meeting just to deliver the message, by an extremely senior manager (and a trustworthy one at that) who told us we were out in 6 months come hell or high water and that our contracts had been redone to all finish on the same date to facilitate this. I ended up walking away happy, and under no pressure to leave, several years later. I understand the current context has ratcheted things up but stick to your plan and keep in mind the grapevine is just the grapevine.

The country with the most cases per capita is actually Switzerland, followed by Luxembourg. It makes absolutely no sense to compare the US with countries like Portugal or Italy. A better comparison would be the US and Europe as a whole, since they have about the same population. The US is at 587,173 cases right now vs a combined total of 597,014 for Italy, Spain, France and Germany. A lot more if you add in all the other countries like the UK, Netherlands etc. Death total is 23,841 in the US vs 56,382 combined total for Italy, Spain, France and Germany. Point being it has run riot across Europe and the US. The US hasn't been harder hit than Europe.

I'm always more worried when they reassure me I'm safe.

True, good point. Had a positive call with boss in the UK and just had a catch up with a boss here and cuts are coming but fingers crossed. I made it clear I'd take reduced package / hours (lol at the second part of that) or temporary unpaid to protect a job in the long run.

Good luck mate , trying to ride this one out is the best thing . I do believe though you're going to see a massive exodus across the board here . Wont be many of us that survive this one long term that's for sure.

I figure if you survived 10 years (?) in recruitment in Dubai you must be very good at what you do. You'll be fine no matter what comes.

quite right.

Yeah, agreed. Cheers.

9yrs a week or so ago. Mental how time flies. I'm just Linkedin famous rather than good