Paranoid about work colleagues - in time of cuts

[Lady D]

Hi all

 

I am a temp in a government department, the only one - they are making cuts where I work and restructuring and everybody knows it, some people will need to go and permanent staff will be interviewed for their own jobs, my friends think the managers are after our jobs and I am starting to feel paranoid around them, they keep on talking about me being "stitched up" and "shafted", like the managers are out to get me sacked

 

Now today I took minutes for a meeting, I told the truth in the minutes and I didn't cut anything out - what I wrote cast managers in a good light though it was the truth and now these friends seem annoyed - but I'm out to keep my job and make my managers happy not them, I don't even know if I can trust them anymore

 

Anyone else encountered this sort of thing? Thanks

[Lady D]

They know I excel at my work as well, yet all they seem to do is instill fear into me just seems weird

[thejigsup]

Well, you're a temp. They are usually the first ones cut. At least that has been my experience.

[Lady D]

Well you may very well be right ~ maybe I'm living in cloud cuckoo land, I have thought already about making up a very good CV and leaving but my contract has just been extended to December, sorry that happened to you

[thejigsup]

It has never happened to me. I do not, and will not, do temp work. I have just worked at places that had temps they were the first ones fired. Not enough security in temp work for me.