Hello everyone, my first post, and let me thank you in advance for any assistance/views on this. 
Ok here goes - I'm a permi, and still a permi. I have over 16 years IT experience, with the last 10 split over Technical Architect and Infrastructure Team Manager Roles.
I work for a major UK bank that's had huge losses over recent months. I'm very good at my job, and as you can imagine I've lead/designed some pretty big infrastructure projects over the years.
Over the last 12 months the company has started to go down the pan. Decisions are not thought-out and the government keeps sticking it nose in IT matters. And we all know how good the government is with its IT projects.
So the question - This is not the company I joined as a wee lad. I now want out. There's loads of redundancies being offered with pretty big payoffs, but I don't think they'll get round to offering it to our team for another 12 months or so. I don't think I can wait that long; so here's my dilemma.
I don't want to hand in my notice [yet] due to the potential of a redundancy payoff. I could take unpaid leave for up to 6-8 months.
Do you think I could take a contracting job while on unpaid leave? Or do you think I should stick it out?
Ok here goes - I'm a permi, and still a permi. I have over 16 years IT experience, with the last 10 split over Technical Architect and Infrastructure Team Manager Roles.
I work for a major UK bank that's had huge losses over recent months. I'm very good at my job, and as you can imagine I've lead/designed some pretty big infrastructure projects over the years.
Over the last 12 months the company has started to go down the pan. Decisions are not thought-out and the government keeps sticking it nose in IT matters. And we all know how good the government is with its IT projects.
So the question - This is not the company I joined as a wee lad. I now want out. There's loads of redundancies being offered with pretty big payoffs, but I don't think they'll get round to offering it to our team for another 12 months or so. I don't think I can wait that long; so here's my dilemma.
I don't want to hand in my notice [yet] due to the potential of a redundancy payoff. I could take unpaid leave for up to 6-8 months.
Do you think I could take a contracting job while on unpaid leave? Or do you think I should stick it out?
But how is the bank supposed to lend the public more money and also increasing their capitalisation/cash reserves ratio? It's just one massive conflict. Something has to suffer and it's IT.
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