dan
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Location: Bath
Registered: February 2002
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Hello everyone. It's a little strange, as I have never been in this position before. And I have always felt this might happen to someone other than myself. It has taken a great deal of security and reassurance away from the family and I.
Basically, my father has been made redundant. 2 years ago, he joined a fashion company, and made a whole new brand from scratch. There was nothing of this brand before him, and he created it single-handedly, commuted from home to London every day of the working week (5am to 10pm everyday) and built this. He has made an £8 million business from nothing in under a year, and his company has decided to make him redundant, because they want to sell the company off.
It is so unbelievably unfair. My father has worked his arse off for this company, and has built a whole new wing of commerce from nothing. At the moment (it is 11.30pm) we have our lawyers (who are also close personal friends) around discussing what next to do.
It's scary, because I have never known my father, 'out of work' and he has always been there to support the family. It is SUCH a scary position to be in. When my mother phoned me earlier in the afternoon, I felt sick. It was that bad. It was like when I found out that my Uncle has cancer (which was diagnosed as being terminal). I know it is two totally different things, and one is extremely different to the other. But at the same time, it is such a dramatic shift in one's life, it can alter it in such a noticable way.
I don't know. It's just still *so* alien for me to think of my father as 'unemployed'. Albeit he is revelling in the fact that he can sleep in in the morning, and not have to cope with such back-stabbing, political cunts at work. (Sorry for the language).
Anyway, I am going to sleep now, and hopefully think happy thoughts.
Speak later
Dan,
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