{"id":1715,"date":"2009-01-09T19:18:06","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T18:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2009\/01\/09\/exciting_times_to_be_out_of_a_job"},"modified":"2025-10-09T11:50:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T10:50:58","slug":"exciting_times_to_be_out_of_a_job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2009\/01\/09\/exciting_times_to_be_out_of_a_job","title":{"rendered":"Exciting times to be out of a job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/kent\/7820661.stm\">Train company is to cut 300 jobs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Southeastern trains [which operates trains in south-east London and Kent] is to make 300 people redundant over the coming year.<\/p>\n<p>The company blamed &quot;reduced passenger journey growth&quot; and the economic climate for the decision, which will see up to 90 staff axed by May. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Staff affected by the job losses are to include a number of managers and administration workers, Southeastern said.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the company said: &quot;In line with many other companies in the UK at the moment, this step is being taken in order for us to remain a successful organisation.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#39;s necessary to take these measures in a time of reduced passenger journey growth and a more challenging economic climate.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/assets_c\/2009\/01\/Exciting times at Southeastern1-14.html\" onclick=\"window.open('https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/assets_c\/2009\/01\/Exciting times at Southeastern1-14.html','popup','width=911,height=644,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/images\/Exciting times at Southeastern1-thumbnail.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"353\" alt=\"Screenshot of Southeastern train company website, proclaiming 'Exciting times' and inviting you to look for a job there\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Train company is to cut 300 jobs Southeastern trains [which operates trains in south-east London and Kent] is to make 300 people redundant over the coming year. The company blamed &quot;reduced passenger journey growth&quot;&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[684],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recession_credit_crunch"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-rF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1715"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41711,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1715\/revisions\/41711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}