Recently I was made redundant from a very large blue clip company. I had worked for them for 3 months and was really enjoying it. While I was there I enjoyed all the freebie products and incentives that anybody would in a job like mine. One of the less sexy roles I did was check the fax machines to see they were working. On one occasion I found a fax still laying in the try, being nosey I read it. It was an invoice for the companies Christmas party. (Blimey that’s a lot of Corn Flakes).

I had a great time at the event but I would have felt better as a person (also not hung over) if my employer had wiped out debt in one of the third world countries in Africa. So corporate affairs issues aside I went on with the rest of my job. 1 month later from the party and all was going well, nothing out of the ordinary until my manager asked for a private word.

Due to a company over spend; they had to make budget cuts. That’s how I lost my job. A company that could afford a six figure booze up now can’t afford to keep near minimum wage staff. I wasn’t the only one to go that day.