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Are all Irish workers crap or just lazy?

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  • #102
    skregs
    Registered Users Posts: 746 ✭✭✭skregs


    mikemac1 wrote: »
    How do you verify a qualification from her country.

    If she has a qualification from University of Warsaw or even a place you've never heard of how do you check if it's real?

    Genuinely asking here, I'm interested to know

    WRT her qualifications, you can only take her at face value. But she did have relevant work experience in Ireland and it was apparent during her interview that she knew what she was talking about.
    As much as I would have preferred to hire an Irish person, my business comes before the welfare of the country in my eyes


  • #103
    oppenheimer1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,084 ✭✭✭oppenheimer1


    gigino wrote: »
    A multinational boss here once said he thought of Ireland as a third world country, with its inefficiency, corruption etc.

    I suppose here in the republic we are not generally the best self-starters in ther world. Not very industrious.

    Well that guy, quite frankly, is an idiot. The USA has far more problems with corruption for a start.


  • #104
    mercenary2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 168 ✭✭mercenary2


    kjl wrote: »
    I work for a multinational company who have one of their offices located in Dublin. Now I don't actually work in the Dublin office, but as I am Irish they handle all the administrative work like scanning expenses receipts or if there are any issues ordering equipment.

    Here in lies the question, I work with a group of people from all over Europe and they all have to use their home office for the same stuff I do. So the UK people use the UK office, the German people use the German office, but every one of them has things done efficiently and quickly. Not me though, it takes about 2 weeks to do anything in the Irish office.

    Ill give a few examples
    me: send in an expense report, it takes about 2-3 weeks to get it processed
    colleagues: 2-3 days

    I ordered a new phone through the company website
    colleagues: 4 days delivered
    me: 1 month

    I had a simple issue with my company card,
    it took 2 weeks to resolve it.

    Now you may say well maybe you are not following up with emails and phone calls. One time I was trying to contact a girl in the Irish office and I rang and emailed every single day for a week and I am still waiting to hear back from her.

    And when I was offered the job, I was working with an exterior HR person, but I had to send my contract into the Irish office. I sent it in by hand on a Friday, then got a call on Wed asking me why I had not sent in. I went back into the office to find out they lost the contact and I had to fill out a whole new contract, with multiple steps involved.

    So I ask, what's the deal? Why are Irish workers so bad at their job. This isn't just my company either, I have a lot of associates who do a similar job to me who are Irish based and they have the exact same issues.

    come fishing with me u will soon see u cant last the work day and yes im irish and have worked over 48 hrs straight with 4 hours sleep before doing it again


  • #105
    pragmatic1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,573 ✭✭✭pragmatic1


    Crap, lazy and smelly the lot of them, except me.


  • #106
    kjl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,127 ✭✭✭kjl


    mercenary2 wrote: »
    come fishing with me u will soon see u cant last the work day and yes im irish and have worked over 48 hrs straight with 4 hours sleep before doing it again

    and it has clearly affected your ability to make sense.


  • #107
    gerryo777
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,216 ✭✭✭gerryo777


    kjl wrote: »
    and it has clearly affected your ability to make sense.
    Third time to ask.
    Is it only Irish people who work in the Dublin office?
    Your failure to answer would suggest to me that there's more than just Irish people working there which will make your OP pretty much invalid.
    Seems to me it's yourself that's the problem!


  • #108
    Toby Take a Bow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,732 ✭✭✭Toby Take a Bow


    kjl wrote: »
    and it has clearly affected your ability to make sense.

    Hmm. You're concerned about other people making sense?

    gigino wrote: »
    A multinational boss here once said he thought of Ireland as a third world country, with its inefficiency, corruption etc.

    Hmm, I was going to respond with my anecdotal evidence about how I, too, was talking to a multinational 'boss' once and he thought Ireland was a good place to invest, with a hard-working population to choose from. I would have included the high rate of foreign investment of multinational into opening operations here.


  • #109
    biko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    mercenary2 wrote: »
    come fishing with me u will soon see u cant last the work day and yes im irish and have worked over 48 hrs straight with 4 hours sleep before doing it again
    mercenary2, don't be lazy when typing "you".
    kjl wrote: »
    and it has clearly affected your ability to make sense.
    Chill.


  • #110
    eth0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,635 ✭✭✭eth0


    I used to know this eastern european lad and he was the laziest f*cker to walk on the face of God's green earth

    One day I went painting with him. He would put on a coat of paint and not wait for it to dry so he could go home earlier, real shoddy work too. No notion of taking the time to do the job properly.

    After painting he went to the offie to buy 12 small bottles of cheap beer, after cribbing to me that we left too late. Next day I showed up earlier at his house to go painting with him and he was thrown on the couch asleep with only 2 bottles left.

    Then he was doing a job for my neighbour and she found him sleeping in the grass after going to get shoppings. He painted a ceiling and wall for her as well that looked like shoite, parts where he put on too much paint and it started dripping. My neighbour had to watch him and make sure he'd let a coat dry first before painting over it and after it still wasn't brilliant.

    Taking wheelbarrows of top soil he'd half fill them and walk very slowly with them and put on an obviously fake load of cribbing about his back.

    Not only that but he'd be the biggest bluffer around. About 5 different professions he mentioned he was qualified in. Painting, plastering, mining and a couple more. He also claimed he could use a chainsaw but turned out he couldn't start it to save his life and didn't know you had to put chain oil in it


  • #111
    Zorbas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 194 ✭✭Zorbas


    eth0 wrote: »
    I used to know this eastern european lad and he was the laziest f*cker to walk on the face of God's green earth
    He also claimed he could use a chainsaw but turned out he couldn't start it to save his life and didn't know you had to put chain oil in it

    I used to know a guy (think he was Irish) who has his mother tie his shoe laces - but then would not write off a whole nation on the basis of such limited evidence.


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