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Immigrants Enthusiastic, Irish Lazy

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    i'm too lazy to type a biting retort to that.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,368 ✭✭✭thelordofcheese


    I'd post something that would rock your world and make you realise how wrong you are, but I'm sure someone else will do it eventually.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,324 ✭✭✭tallus


    ballooba wrote:
    I've said it here before and I was told I was stereotyping and a racist.

    Now Amarach Consulting is saying what lots of us have known for ages:
    http://www.breakingnews.ie/2006/06/01/story261382.html
    It's a poor generalisation
    :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    The natives are lazy feckers in most countries.

    Mike.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Probably because immigrant workers feel like they're in a less secure position than their Irish counterparts. I've no doubt Irish people who emigrated to London and the US up to the early 90s worked their asses off to prove themselves. Makes sense - especially when anti-immigration sentiment exists.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,012 ✭✭✭✭Cuddlesworth


    Dudess wrote:
    Probably because immigrant workers feel like they're in a less secure position than their Irish counterparts. I've no doubt Irish people who emigrated to London and the US up to the early 90s worked their asses off to prove themselves. Makes sense - especially when anti-immigration sentiment exists.

    What he said but with a joke or two thrown in for comic effect.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    krazy_8s wrote:
    What he said but with a joke or two thrown in for comic effect.

    *scratches head* Call me slow on the uptake, but I don't see any irony on the thread. What am I missing?:confused::)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 238 ✭✭AngryAnderson


    Some people lazy, others not. Generalisations - retarded.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,020 ✭✭✭mang87


    what they all said above me


    i think

    effort reading all those words


  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 7,486 ✭✭✭Red Alert


    I agree with this in some respects. Many of the eastern european people are very polite and show more respect for the customer than the irish. I got a really good (and badly needed) haircut from a beautiful estonian girl today - i've never got such personal service before.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    I find this thread beyond idiotic.
    Amarach Consulting said a survey it conducted found that one third of companies which employ migrant workers describe them as more reliable and enthusiastic.

    That's one third of companies. That's a minority view and cannot under any logic support a outright retarded blanket claim that Irish are lazy and immigrants are enthusiastic. This arcticle is blatant spin, and I find it riduculous that people are actually buying into it. The very idea is laughable! What about the other two thirds? The opinions of the majority are being willfully left out of this arcticle in order to distort the truth, and project something contrary.
    ballooba wrote:
    I've said it here before and I was told I was stereotyping and a racist.

    Indeed, you do look to be stereotyping, ignorant, and at the least predjudiced, but after you started this thread, probably didn't even bother to read the arcticle itself, and make an extremely ignorant blanket statement based on 'Facts' you yourself clearly did not understand, I think you've just proved without doubt the validity of any accusations thrown at you, aswell as calling your own intelligence into question. Well done.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    I find this thread beyond idiotic.



    That's one third of companies. That's a minority view and cannot under any logic support a outright retarded blanket claim that Irish are lazy and immigrants are enthusiastic. This arcticle is blatant spin, and I find it riduculous that people are actually buying into it. The very idea is laughable! What about the other two thirds? The opinions of the majority are being willfully left out of this arcticle in order to distort the truth, and project something contrary.



    Indeed, you do look to be stereotyping, ignorant, and at the least predjudiced, but after you started this thread, probably didn't even bother to read the arcticle itself, and make an extremely ignorant blanket statement based on 'Facts' you yourself clearly did not understand, I think you've just proved without doubt the validity of any accusations thrown at you, aswell as calling your own intelligence into question. Well done.
    is that what the article said?
    i seriously was too lazy to read it.
    i must be in the 1/3 minority.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    julep wrote:
    is that what the article said?
    i seriously was too lazy to read it.
    i must be in the 1/3 minority.

    Ho ho! :p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,780 ✭✭✭✭ninebeanrows


    Were not as lazy as those lazy mediterranean folk

    I'll tells you that:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Just speculating, but as I said, maybe it's true that immigrant workers are more likely to work harder than their Irish counterparts - due to their situation, not because it's in their genetic make-up to be hard workers - and, in comparison, Irish people tend not to be as hard-working - simply because they are in less of a vulnerable situation and don't feel like they have as much to lose.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 599 ✭✭✭New_Departure06


    The reality is that desperate people will work harder and for less, but that we need to avoid this being used to create a race to the bottom in which the Irish are replaced by foreigners willing to work longer and for lower pay.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,255 ✭✭✭✭The_Minister


    I'd say that those who emigrate are more enterprising thus the ones we get here work harder.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 503 ✭✭✭OMcGovern


    That's one third of companies. That's a minority view and cannot under any logic support a outright retarded blanket claim that Irish are lazy and immigrants are enthusiastic.


    It's even more of a minority view than you think....
    It's only one third of companies surveyed.. and they don't say how many companies they surveyed.
    It's always amazing how statistics is used to manipulate people, usually but quoting percentages as opposed to real numbers, or survey results without survey sizes.

    regards,
    Owen


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    OMcGovern wrote:
    It's even more of a minority view than you think....
    It's only one third of companies surveyed.. and they don't say how many companies they surveyed.
    It's always amazing how statistics is used to manipulate people, usually but quoting percentages as opposed to real numbers, or survey results without survey sizes.

    regards,
    Owen

    Very true indeed.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 589 ✭✭✭MrSinn


    I dont think i would be enthusiastic if i was getting €5ph,but if it was double what i was getting back home then i would be enthusiastic,this report comes at a time when employers say they cant give their workers a decent rise,they like cheap foreign labour,simple as!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 194 ✭✭Munya


    Breaking news? Lol

    That’s old news and a universal truth.

    As someone said its not genetic make-up it’s the fact they have always had to work hard for what the got.

    I worked with a polish immigrant she worked a harder than her Irish colleague and was happy working too, I was amazed that’s unnatural especially considering her job.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 238 ✭✭AngryAnderson


    One statistic that you probably can derive from this thread is that n% of Irish people who don't actually suffer from any mental disabilities are, in fact, total retards.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,604 ✭✭✭herbieflowers


    Haha, AngryAnderson you crack me up!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,106 ✭✭✭Pocari Sweat


    I have to agree that we are getting a bit half arsed in Ireland.

    I got some customer last week asking for me to get to their house at an exact time to give them a quote and then got bollocked because I turned up 2 days late out of the blue and I was nearly twice the price of some keen fecker that arrived on time.

    I don't give a feck cos I've got too much work on. Let some other fecker do it for nothing and break their balls.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,106 ✭✭✭Pocari Sweat


    They can shove it up their arrse.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 589 ✭✭✭MrSinn


    They can shove it up their arrse.
    my words exactly,i dont think forighn workers got this country where is is today,thats the thanks we get for it from the fatcat bbastards


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,430 ✭✭✭Sizzler


    My mum was made redundant (practically scaremongered into taking a package) last year and shes still fit and healthy to work but is finding it near impossible to get a job now as shes up against comments like this which are obviously reflected by the recruitment policies of most organisations now.

    She didnt know whether to cry or kick the screen in on the tv when she saw this report on teletext earlier on tonight :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,103 ✭✭✭fly_agaric


    ballooba wrote:
    I've said it here before and I was told I was stereotyping and a racist.

    Now Amarach Consulting is saying what lots of us have known for ages:
    http://www.breakingnews.ie/2006/06/01/story261382.html

    I'm going to patent the machine to render all the surplus-to-requirements Irish-born knick-knacks into Soylent Green Booster Jelly!
    That should improve the productivity of the foriegn-born workforce 10fold! Let alone the Irish.

    Protein. Brain food. And if you don't produce for the economy you become dinner.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    Sizzler wrote:
    My mum was made redundant (practically scaremongered into taking a package) last year and shes still fit and healthy to work but is finding it near impossible to get a job now as shes up against comments like this which are obviously reflected by the recruitment policies of most organisations now.

    She didnt know whether to cry or kick the screen in on the tv when she saw this report on teletext earlier on tonight :(

    Why, I AM shocked! this cant be true, everyone knows that all the cheap/cheerful foreign labour sloshing around isnt making it harder for indigenous workers to find job's. Everythings fine, link/proof etc lalalalalalalala ;)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,106 ✭✭✭Pocari Sweat


    There is so much work about, that you have to chat for half an hour to the customers about all the feckers that did not turn up to quote on jobs, except the keen feckers that get in to do it for half price.

    Feckers.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,106 ✭✭✭Pocari Sweat


    Although I point out to customers that I am ****e, I at least make sure I tell them that I am twice the price, and this should make them feel confident.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,799 ✭✭✭Tha Gopher


    I dunno, I know lazy immigrants and I know hard working migrants. Mind you boards is probably the best example of Irish laziness, in work related threads the amount of spas posting along the lines of "I got a job in McDonalds when I was 16, I stayed two days" is unreal. People like that ae a disgrace to themselves and this country, its no wonder young people who want a job cant get one because the newsagents/takeaways/supermarkets will only hire foreign staff because of the example some of you lot set years back.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    One statistic that you probably can derive from this thread is that n% of Irish people who don't actually suffer from any mental disabilities are, in fact, total retards.


    Every bloody post coming from you refers to "retards","mentally retarded","retarded" or "mental retardation".Do you have a fetish for the feeble-minded or do you just like talking like Brittany Spears?Change the bleeding record.


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