Ok so I thought I might you guys a bit of an update on my situation. It's been 3 weeks now and we've had a meeting in between, and they actually rejected my request to get a transfer, so I'm certain I'll be told next week that I'm gone.
However...
Just now, the ED sent an email update advising everyone to attend a meeting on Tuesday afternoon at 4:00pm (one of the worst times to call a meeting), to update everyone on a review that is being undertaken on our structure. In other words... RESTRUCTURE.
Well looks like I'm about to walk the plank of a sinking ship... I've never felt so indifferent in my life!
Hope you fall on your feet and pick up another job you want and enjoy very soon.
Unfortunately long gone are the days of job security even in the Public Service.
There wouldn't many people in the workforce today who haven't been made redundant in a "Restructure" by a "Change Manager" who have been employed to handle the sacking process .
With the advent of outsourcing "to India" in particular in the clerical / administrative / accounting fields, the reduction of manufacturing industry in Australia as a whole with outsourcing to "China" or due to automation and the downturn in work in the construction industry with the worst still to come and the mining boom coming to an end you're not on your lonesome.
The only area booming seems to be the bedpan industry with the continuing ageing population and the National Disability Scheme in place.
If I and many others are right and we are on the verge a a severe recession or even depression thinks look grim.
The future to me looks like most people being on multiple casual low paying contracts with the lucky minority on permanent decent paying jobs.
Don't mean to be so negative and I hope I'm proved wrong.
Australia really needs to move away from its reliance on the resources sector and get some national income producing sectors like manufacturing or solar energy innovation etc moving and this can only happen if all levels of government work together and invest or give tax incentives to the private industry to invest in these sectors before we start to realise the benefits.