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Bord Gais increase bills by 12% whilst spending 100k on chairs!!

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    #2
    chin_grin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,808 ✭✭✭✭chin_grin


    Rabble rabble rabble rabble rabble rabble.

    Wow a new low of rabbling. Chairs. What have we come to!?

    "I'm shocked Joe", etc.


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    #3
    ronaneire
    Registered Users Posts: 1,698 ✭✭✭ronaneire


    When did we move to the dollar? It's gas though the things we read :D


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    #4
    -Kenny-
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    HA thats gas !


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    #5
    chin_grin
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    -Kenny- wrote: »
    HA thats gas !

    (v_v)


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    Yakult
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 7,941 Mod ✭✭✭✭Yakult


    Who thought a new office would need chairs and lots of them.. :rolleyes:


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    #7
    My name is URL
    Registered Users Posts: 25,067 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Yakult wrote: »
    Who thought a new office would need chairs and lots of them.. :rolleyes:

    How much did your office chair cost?


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    skelliser
    Registered Users Posts: 2,985 ✭✭✭skelliser


    chin_grin wrote: »
    Rabble rabble rabble rabble rabble rabble.

    Wow a new low of rabbling. Chairs. What have we come to!?

    "I'm shocked Joe", etc.

    900 dollars/euros will go along way to get some poor peoples heating come this winter.
    oh and least you forget some of your taxes went towards this extravagant waste as Bord Gais is a semi-state company.


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    #9
    MugMugs
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    Wont somebody think of the Ch............... Chairs ? :confused:


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    #10
    scooby2791
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    Don't like it? Move to Flogas.


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    #11
    skelliser
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    Yakult wrote: »
    Who thought a new office would need chairs and lots of them.. :rolleyes:

    at 900euros a piece?


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    #12
    My name is URL
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    scooby2791 wrote: »
    Don't like it? Move to Flogas.

    Or stop paying taxes


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    #13
    Wossack
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    if its any consolation, their ivory towers are very drafty this time of year


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    #14
    chin_grin
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    skelliser wrote: »
    at 900euros a piece?

    Won't somebody think of the ergonomics!


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    #15
    ilovesleep
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭ilovesleep


    Not on bordgas but for fcuk sake


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    #16
    jimmmy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,539 ✭✭✭jimmmy


    typical semi-state / government mentality.

    no wonder the country is f***ed.


    I saw the postie labouring under the weight of some junk mail booklets he had to deliver from some government body too - turns out half the pages / writing was duplicated as it was done in the bl**dy Irish language. Waste of money.

    Pity government companies were not run more efficiently. Its costing us many billions a year in extra borrowing.

    You would'nt see Ryanair wasting 980,000 printing something in to a language nobody reads, or spending 100k on chairs.


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    Yakult
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 7,941 Mod ✭✭✭✭Yakult


    skelliser wrote: »
    at 900euros a piece?

    That's the retail price for everyday consumers. I doubt that a company will be paying full whack for these chairs considering their a business (excl-vat) and the fact they bought in bulk which again would drive the average price of the chair down.


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    #18
    4leto
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    I don't see anything wrong with this, what is wrong with a company spending money on making their workers more comfortable in the work environment.

    Should they turn the heating off as well I am sure they spend more then a Hundred grand on that.


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    #19
    My name is URL
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    4leto wrote: »
    I don't see anything wrong with this, what is wrong with a company spending money on making their workers more comfortable in the work environment.

    Are you taking the piss? It's a semi-state body, in massive debt right now and being propped up by the tax-payer.


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    NTMK
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    4leto wrote: »
    I don't see anything wrong with this, what is wrong with a company spending money on making their workers more comfortable in the work environment.

    Should they turn the heating off as well I am sure they spend more then a Hundred grand on that.

    infairness you'd probably get a more comfortable chair for cheaper.
    at €900 a pop id want the chair to do my work for me and make the tea


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    #21
    skelliser
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    btw the workers moving into the new offices are looking for "disturbance" money!!
    you couldnt make this sh/t up!!
    HUNDREDS of Bord Gais workers are seeking payment for an imminent move to new offices less then 3km away.

    They have made a claim for disturbance money to compensate them for the change.

    Unions have made a claim for compensation for additional travel time. The talks are ongoing.

    http://www.independent.ie/national-news/workers-seek-pay-for-3km-move-2857157.html


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    #22
    4leto
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    My name is URL wrote: »
    Are you taking the piss? It's a semi-state body, in massive debt right now and being propped up by the tax-payer.

    They are not in massive debt, they are profitable and making huge inroads into the electricity market and no I am not taking the piss what is wrong with a company investing in their workforce should they have bought then stools instead??

    If there was a need for new office furniture why not buy quality, I find relative quality is always the cheaper option.


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    skelliser
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    4leto wrote: »

    If there was a need for new office furniture why not buy quality, I find relative quality is always the cheaper option.

    but at almost 1k a chair!!


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    #24
    lastlaugh
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    If your going to sit on your ass all day, you might aswell do it in luxury I suppose...


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    #25
    4leto
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    NTMK wrote: »
    infairness you'd probably get a more comfortable chair for cheaper.
    at €900 a pop id want the chair to do my work for me and make the tea

    I really wouldn't know, but if anyone has ever worked in an office there is nothing worse then a bad chair. It is definitely bad for production.


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    #26
    TheZohanS
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    NTMK wrote: »
    infairness you'd probably get a more comfortable chair for cheaper.
    at €900 a pop id want the chair to do my work for me and make the tea

    You probably wouldn't tbf. Those chairs are great, nearly bulletproof too. They'll last a long long time.

    Also they're not €900 over here, you'd pick them up for around €660 (+ VAT which they can claim back). If they were buying in bulk I have to agree with Yakult, they'd get a better price on them.


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    #27
    ilovesleep
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    100,000k for office chairs (900 euro a chair is it) is far too much. If a private company spent that kind of money on chairs alone they would be more than likely very much fail as a company. They just wouldn't survive. And in this current climate with many companies closing, they could have sourced chairs secondhand. Sickening.


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    #28
    NTMK
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    TheZohan wrote: »
    You probably wouldn't tbf. Those chairs are great, nearly bulletproof too. They'll last a long long time.

    Also they're not €900 over here, you'd pick them up for around €660 (+ VAT which they can claim back). If they were buying in bulk I have to agree with Yakult, they'd get a better price on them.

    If they're very comfortable and durable at the 500-600 price point then fair enough
    900 is over the top though for any office chair

    Nothing worse than a crap office chair


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    #29
    _feedback_
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    TheZohan wrote: »
    You probably wouldn't tbf. Those chairs are great, nearly bulletproof too. They'll last a long long time.

    Also they're not €900 over here, you'd pick them up for around €660 (+ VAT which they can claim back). If they were buying in bulk I have to agree with Yakult, they'd get a better price on them.

    Agree with this.

    Half the 100k figure for starters and you might be close.

    50k is probably less than the average salary in there. So, for less than one persons wages, they furnish the place with very good quality chairs that will last a long time and be good for the workers (and their backs).

    Could find something better to moan about tbh..


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    #30
    Wossack
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    LTI through improper seating would cost more then 100k, though I'll eat my hat if these chairs cost 900e a pop. They may even be leasing them.

    what would really raise peoples eyebrows, would have been the cost of the consultancy process, the tendering, the various health and safety reviews that would have finally resulted in these chairs being bought..


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    TheZohanS
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    ilovesleep wrote: »
    100,000k for office chairs (900 euro a chair is it) is far too much. If a private company spent that kind of money on chairs alone they would be more than likely very much fail as a company. They just wouldn't survive. And in this current climate with many companies closing, they could have sourced chairs secondhand. Sickening.

    The journalist plucked the €100k figure out of his bottom, he has no idea of the cost.


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