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Who are frontline workers (occupations)?

  • 10-10-2011 3:46am
    #1
    Posts: 14,344 ✭✭✭✭


    Howdy,

    Not sure if this is the right place to stick this, but not sure of any better suited forums.

    Anyway, silly question, perhaps, but just wondering who exactly qualifies as a frontline worker? Thinking of a little photo project in my head.

    As far as I know the following are considered "frontline";

    Garda
    Fire Officer
    Paramedic
    Teacher
    Nurse
    Doctor/Surgeon (I presume this is only the Doctors in hospitals? Is a GP "frontline"?)



    Who else falls under the 'frontline' umbrella? Are the lads and lassies sweeping the streets considered frontline, too?


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 843 ✭✭✭maygitchell


    Hookers, Coke, Atari Chocolate Sponge Cake


  • Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Pat "the plank" Kenny


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,013 ✭✭✭kincsem


    Indispensible workers who can hold the country to ransom: doctors, nurses, garda, prison officers, electricity workers ...

    You know. The underpaid.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1023

    OP have a read through here, might be of some help to you.


  • Posts: 14,344 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    hondasam wrote: »
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1023

    OP have a read through here, might be of some help to you.


    I post there regularly, and while I'm aware that the Emergency service personnel are 'frontline', I'm trying to figure out who else is considered same.


    kincsem, hadn't thought of prison officer.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭Freddie59


    What IS the frontline? Anyone calling to houses? Electricians, plumbers, builders, utility Cos?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 413 ✭✭noxqs


    Soldiers on the front and doctors in "Doctors without borders". Everyone else is just posers.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,163 ✭✭✭smk89


    Chuggers, they stand on the street trying to extort money from the public.
    They are the bravest of us all


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    "Frontline workers" makes it sound like these people were in a bloody war, not just staffing hospitals & Garda stations.

    It might be applicable to the likes of the Fire Services, but it's still a bit of an over exaggerated term.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,128 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    Isnt this just a term for the person on to of a dole queue?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,513 ✭✭✭donalg1


    anyone who deals with customers face to face is a frontline worker i would assume


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,654 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    In a broad sense,everyone is a frontline worker,because you must face to everything with yourself to live !



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,992 ✭✭✭✭gurramok


    Retail workers are frontline too, they have to deal with the prospect of junkie attacks\armed robbers every day but we don't hear about those worker perils that often as their pay ain't great.


  • Registered Users Posts: 99 ✭✭susita06


    social workers, social care workers, SNA's etc ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,378 ✭✭✭Krieg


    meh, according to wikianswers....
    Any employee with direct contact with customers and/or with direct involvement with the money making process in their respective company.


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