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Mates bus driving dad - wages

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    #32
    2 stroke
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    veryangryman wrote: »

    If i wanted to change career and drive for Dublin Bus, im pretty sure i could be driving you to work within a year. The reverse is not true. I couldnt engineer software after a years training

    Please don't. In my experience software engineers try out their product until it stops crashing, not a good way to drive a bus.


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    #33
    A_Border_Bandit
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    If they're able to cut €200, Dublin Bus must've been paying well...


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    #34
    spareman
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    A_Border_Bandit wrote: »
    If they're able to cut €200, Dublin Bus must've been paying well...
    That was overtime they cut, basic pay not great, put it this way, Im about €100 a week better off working than I would be claiming the dole. €20 a day...must remember that the next time the 4am alarm clock goes off.


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    #35
    dearg lady
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    ah I love peoples opinions on what others 'should' get paid. I saw the scales few years ago and it seemed like a reasonable wage for the level of responsibility and horrendously unsocial hours.


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    #36
    bk
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    spareman wrote: »
    That was overtime they cut, basic pay not great, put it this way, Im about €100 a week better off working than I would be claiming the dole. €20 a day...must remember that the next time the 4am alarm clock goes off.

    I wonder if this is more of an argument for our dole being far too generous.


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    #37
    corktina
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    the dole arguement is never of any credence....you dont get it forever you know...313 days, then you have to go beg (unless your other half works, then you can go hang...)


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    #38
    spareman
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    corktina wrote: »
    the dole arguement is never of any credence....you dont get it forever you know...313 days, then you have to go beg (unless your other half works, then you can go hang...)
    I based above on a friend of mine with the same number of children as me and he has been officially unemployed for the past 10 years or so and comes out with €140 less than me a week, Therefore I work 39 hour week for €140, he also does the odd nixer cash into the hand and ends up with more money than me, system dont make sense.


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    #39
    corktina
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    but you can hold your head up as paying your way whereas anyone who didnt work through the boom years whilst claiming to be searching for work is surely a scrounger....


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    #40
    SickCert
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    A_Border_Bandit wrote: »
    If they're able to cut €200, Dublin Bus must've been paying well...

    Until recent work changes (48hr week) certain lads were knocking in 80hr weeks and cleaning up, many others in the 50/60hr bracket. These boys are down 200/300 per week.
    The family man doing his 39hrs a week is still on the basic.


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    #41
    subway
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    everyday taxi wrote: »
    So politicians and bankers essentially should all be sacked. :rolleyes:
    well, thats up to their employers isnt it?
    would you disagree that "bankers" & "politcians" wages should be cut?
    i personally think they could do with a reduction

    you mentioned "sacking" but im talking about cuts. if there are less jobs available or someone better then they should get the sack.
    that up to their employers though. oh wait, irish people keep voting the same families into power who wont sack the bankers or cut their wages so i guess we are getting what we want?
    lets see at the next election


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