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17-08-2001 9:08pm#1I work in Merlin Park Hospital in Galway, in the grounds department, and let me say this,
It is the softest job i've ever had in meh life.
Up until now ive been working in restaurants, bars and hotels but as anyone who has done this you will know that they always try to screw u over in what they pay you and the hours.
But in this job, ive got fixed hours, 8:30 to 5 monday to thurs, 8:30 to 4 on fri and i get weekends and bank holidays off!
My boss is reasonably laid back but he works hard. I get 2 breaks each day and on a good day those can stretch to a grand total of 2 and a half hours thats 9:30 to 10:15/30 and 12:30 to 2. We stop work at 4:30 and if it happens to rain, and it does quite often, we stay inside, and only go outside for brekkie and lunch.
this job is sweeeet!
Beat that!
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You picked a good day to post this ... I worked 9-5 this morning, and am now starting a 12am - 10am shift in a net cafe...
Such is life
Al.
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Up until recently I had a respectable, decently paid and fun job in Cyrona Software in Dublin... designing and writing web sites. It was a great company to work for and it was a shame that things went the way they did there (most of us made redundant due to f3ck-all sales)...
Nowadays I'm job hunting while collecting (well earned) social welfare payments and writing and maintaining the IrelandOffline web site.
Just this week I have started part time work in a bar in north county Dublin. You probably won't know it and I probably won't name it
Bard
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Kento-Shiro:
I work in Merlin Park Hospital in Galway ... It is the softest job i've ever had in meh life.
I get 2 breaks each day and on a good day those can stretch to a grand total of 2 and a half hours </font>
Incidently, I work in the Personnel Department of Merlin Park Hospital ... ... only joking
No, I´m a Quantity Surveyor, I got made self employed recently and am working for a couple of clients.
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I work 3 days a week on a project for underprivilaged kids in Derry doing web design, cd-rom authoring and general pc unpkeep. I also teach the kids on some seesions of drama and stuff sa.
2 days a week is spent lecturing in university of ulster (well ehn the year starts again).
Evening i spend working on a game myself and a couple of mates are doing or freelance stuff depends.
Friday 8pm to sunday late are spent in a drunken drugged up blur.
Work hard. Play hard.
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I would work in a net cafe but alas I dont have a weekend of but no late nights only pain is comin in to work on Sunday at 10
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DMT International. A software house doing systems for the finical and insurance sectors in the US and Europe and Asia-Pacific.
Its an ok place to work for (Heres where Dav starts complaining about not being able to listen to music and wear slacks and shirt)
The hours can be a bit much when a deadline is coming close. eg
Boss: You have 8.5 days starting from next monday to have this done.
Me: But I wont be able to start on Moday as I have another 6 days work on the other project you have me on to do first. And 8.5 isn't enought anyway.
Boss: Thats right ok you get the other project finished first then you have 2.5 days to have it done.
Me: Well at least get someone to help me on it
Boss: OK I'll get X to do a part of it
Narative: two weeks later and .5 of a day left to finish.
Me: Ahhh X hasn't even started on his part and it was promised to me yesterday.
Boss: Oh ya you'll have to do that part I meant to tell you.
As you can see the above can lead to very very late nights
kayos
When you get to hell tell them I sent you,
you'll get a group discount...
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by smoke-me-a-kipper: Spam rating = 9.9
SUPERQUINN!! in clonmel, tipperary.</font>
ahhahaha i must call in some day and give u a slap U SPAMMY GIT
im doing tech support for a rather large OSP atm - i wont say who but it isnt hard to guess
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Finishing off 6 months Work Placement as a Network Technician in LAN Communications, part of Eircom (shut up! They just said hey do ya want a job John and everyone else was panicking looking for a job so I said OK). After that it's back to Clonmel and who knows (probably nothing)!
John (yes THE John!)
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by StrataGIST:
ahhahaha i must call in some day and give u a slap U SPAMMY GIT
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gwan so. i can see it now....
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Senior Reporter on CTW, which is the weekly trade magazine/newspaper for the games industry. It's a pretty cool job - a lot of stress, simply because producing a weekly magazine is a huge amount of work, everything is to deadlines, and we're also up to a pile of other stuff that saps up time, like ECTS, E3 and various other events we're involved with.
However, I do get lots of free kit, early releases of games, and generally get to wh0re it up at industry parties and stuff. And I get to work with games for a living (even if I don't get time to play 'em in the office much)... So it's all worth it, and pretty good fun 0 -
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here here to all those people who say that hotels treat their staff very badly. i'm working in a hotel atm, in housekeeping. The main problem is that the management are too tight to employ enough staff, it's peak season and my department is running on a skeleton staff of 5/6 ppl for 100 rooms. It's not very nice, i made roughly 100 beds today , then they insult you by trying to screw you out of wages owed to you. So now i'm going to go somewhere and keel over.... 0
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Gideon2000:
I was working in Lidl in Kildare,
it just opened up and we were all puttin in huge hours gettin stuff done. Grossly under-staffed, working 12hr shifts with a 30mins break if any, and even that was givin to you at their descression. Pain cashin up. All in all a shabby operation. Oh and then they fired me today not that its all up and running. fired a friend of mine yesterday too. Just knockin us off now that they don't need us. That right Vin?
Hope i get the money i'm due, i've heard bad tales about it!
Didn't even get a reason why i was fired today, just "you arn't suited to Lidl" get bent like...
Stuff's cheap there, but then again you do get what you pay for!
Gideon.
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Also known as Slave Labour.
Me, I work in Statoil..... Many many hours, how and ever I do recieve lots of over time. Then when I finish there, I head to the pub to release some anger on paying patrons
John
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I work for Spinsol.
I pick up 50p's on the stairs for Vexorg.
I give regi life advice and smoke ciggies and drink coffee.
I beat Devore around q3dm6 most evenings.
On Fridays, I get a free pizza.
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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by kayos:
Boss: You have 8.5 days starting from next monday to have this done.
Me: But I wont be able to start on Moday as I have another 6 days work on the other project you have me on to do first. And 8.5 isn't enought anyway.
Boss: Thats right ok you get the other project finished first then you have 2.5 days to have it done.
Me: Well at least get someone to help me on it
Boss: OK I'll get X to do a part of it
Narative: two weeks later and .5 of a day left to finish.
Me: Ahhh X hasn't even started on his part and it was promised to me yesterday.
Boss: Oh ya you'll have to do that part I meant to tell you.
As you can see the above can lead to very very late nights
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I was in a similar position before, but you can see that this here is a typical strategy used by poor project management. I hate these type of ppl. They live in la la land, thinking that as long as they don't have to do it, it will be done, and it will be done when they say so. They haven't a clue.
I met with a project manager yesterday who has been employed by companies all over the place. He has soooo much experience in the Software Industry it puts all of us guys to shame. He knew what he was talking about, and critisized a lot of ppl out there (well due stuff too). I distinctly remember him describing ppl like the one Kayos was on about from DMT. He sympathised with an incident I had with a web company in the past (taking avantage of college students).
Ja know I would love to start a thread that named and dished the dirt about companies we've had experience with. TBH Dav if that's the way DMT are, take your stuff and give them the finger, before they make a muppet out of you. Kealan, you seem to be making OK money there, but you're work doesn't seem to differ too much.
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