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The rant of a SW local office worker

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  • #62
    BostonB
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,053 ✭✭✭✭BostonB


    Xiney wrote: »
    the way it's written, the OP is multiple people at once!

    quite the talent :P

    http://www.herald.ie/national-news/dole-office-staff-spat-at-and-abused-as-jobless-total-soars-1763141.html

    Wow that's poor.


  • #63
    Nolanger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,556 ✭✭✭Nolanger


    The EH should sack that b*tch and then she could write a genuine article on a dole office from the customer's perspective.
    I know, I know - OOO!


  • #64
    IT Loser
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,311 ✭✭✭IT Loser


    Nolanger wrote: »
    The EH should sack that b*tch and then she could write a genuine article on a dole office from the customer's perspective.
    I know, I know - OOO!


    Took me a minute to get that!!


  • #65
    Morlar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,273 ✭✭✭Morlar


    IT Loser wrote: »
    Politics. For office-politics reasons, they do nothing. The impetus is not behind detection.

    Is this another guess ? No offence - you already responded to my question with your opinion on the reasons behind it. I was asking the OP for their reason - considering they work in a social welfare office and I am guessing you, like me, do not.


  • #66
    artielange
    Closed Accounts Posts: 307 ✭✭artielange


    axel rose wrote: »
    BTW the phone systems are so old in some offices that an engaged line doesnt sound like it should, it actually sounds like its ringing.


    I think that might be a bit of modern technology:D
    Very tricky


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  • #67
    patrickc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,077 ✭✭✭patrickc


    back on topic everyone


  • #68
    sk8board
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,094 ✭✭✭sk8board


    Had the pleasure of the Coolock social office in the civic center twice in Feb/Mar.
    I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. the never-ending queues; the nutters, frequent-fliers and drunks. The dualcab-driving site foremen unloading newly laid off workers to sign on, all day. The lines of Altezzas and bmw's outside; and as many more people looking lost, getting out of their Corolla, complete with 'baby on board' sticker.

    I was very lucky to only be out of work for a few weeks (hence only 2 trips), but I swear to god I now work day and night to keep the job I have, out of fear of ever having to set foot in that demoralising place ever again.

    not that I expected smiling faces, but its such a shock to the system for any first-timers


  • #69
    songbot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8 ✭songbot


    well its about time that someone said something about the goings on in social welfare local offices, i too work in one in the city centre and it is exactly the same. our manager has been begging for staff for the last 8 months or so and so far we have gotten two in a section(i work in maintenance) which needs at least another 4-6 people. signing days are utterly insane and i too am sick of being called names and treated like utter scum by people who blame me for the fact that they are angry at the laughability of a system filled to absolute bursting and unable to cope with the amount of people signing on.
    it is soul destroying watching people break down (i had 2 on friday) and sickening that there is nothing that you can do about it. and all this so that i can take home 10 grand less than what people think i earn. and then i get told that i should be happy i have a job? i am delighted that i have a job, i am blessed that i am working and not on the other side of the counter. but that doesn't mean that i can't say that the conditions are bad at the moment, because they are. the last two nights i came home from work and fell asleep because i was utterly exhausted. and the funny thing is that i normally like my job. so, i feel your pain there.
    i really hope that things get better for everyones sake, for the people signing on to get a better service because they are stressed to the hilt and for we local office workers who just want to do our jobs without feeling like s*** at the end of the day because as you say, we are not social workers and we are helpless to do anything but what we can in our jobs. i raise my glass of wine to you and all other social welfare local office workers out there tonight trying to relax before the madness on monday.


  • #70
    Nolanger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,556 ✭✭✭Nolanger


    That department has itself to blame for the huge numbers signing on. Today's Mail on Sunday states that young people with low-paid jobs are quitting work to sign on and eventually get go to college through the Back to Education Allowance.


  • #71
    IT Loser
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,311 ✭✭✭IT Loser


    Nolanger wrote: »
    That department has itself to blame for the huge numbers signing on. Today's Mail on Sunday states that young people with low-paid jobs are quitting work to sign on and eventually get go to college through the Back to Education Allowance.

    Ah yes, that bastion of journalistic integrity and truth, the Mail.:cool:


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  • #72
    chasm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,152 ✭✭✭chasm


    Nolanger wrote: »
    That department has itself to blame for the huge numbers signing on. Today's Mail on Sunday states that young people with low-paid jobs are quitting work to sign on and eventually get go to college through the Back to Education Allowance.

    That maybe true but its the big guns making the decisions who are to blame not the staff like the OP who are just trying to earn a wage.
    I receive a disability payment so thankfully do not have to sign on, but in any dealings i have had with my local SW office i must say that even at my most stressed out i found the staff in my local office great-but then again i didnt blame them for my predicament. I treated them with respect and they treated me with it.
    Good post OP.


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